The death of modern day Christian singer Mandisa, the “American Idol” alum whose entire body was found in her dwelling final week, is nonetheless staying investigated by police in Tennessee.
“At this time, there is no sign the loss of life was the consequence of suspicious or prison action,” community details supervisor Max Winitz of the Franklin Law enforcement Office informed The Moments in an e mail Tuesday.
He mentioned the department was “continuing to examine the death” of the 47-calendar year-previous singer.
“Mandisa was a voice of encouragement and truth of the matter to people today facing life’s problems all all-around the entire world,” Mandisa’s Instagram account explained Friday in the submit saying her death.
The singer was born Mandisa Lynn Hundley in Citrus Heights, northeast of Sacramento, on Oct. 2, 1976, and eventually moved to Tennessee. She was a five-time Grammy nominee whose 2013 album “Overcomer” — her fourth and penultimate LP — won a trophy in the modern Christian album classification at the 56th Grammy Awards in 2014.
She concluded in the best nine in the fifth season of “American Idol,” which bundled Chris Daughtry and Kellie Pickler as contestants and was in the end gained by Taylor Hicks around runner-up Katharine McPhee. Mandisa was just one of the quite a few Christian singers who located a position on the demonstrate.
Throughout that 2006 “Idol” period, Mandisa was not shy about invoking her faith on camera, once earning an evangelist-influenced gesture pointing to her heart, head and the sky, and also singing the gospel track “Shackles (Praise You)” throughout Leading 10 week. Just after her audition, Simon Cowell built cruel remarks to Paula Abdul about Mandisa’s body weight she later on cited the daily life of Jesus as she forgave him.
Mandisa experienced picked up the head-heart-sky from evangelist Beth Moore, who operates Dwelling Proof Ministries out of Houston.
“A ton of people today identified that and have been rooting for me,” the singer instructed The Occasions in 2010, referencing the gesture.
