{"id":893,"date":"2026-09-23T18:48:19","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=893"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:48:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:48:19","slug":"barely-breathing-singer-dies-aged-just-56","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/?p=893","title":{"rendered":"Barely Breathing\u2019 singer dies aged just 56"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"show-inline-featured-image wp-caption alignnone\">\n<figure class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-msnfeed-thumbnail size-msnfeed-thumbnail\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn-main.newsner.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2026\/09\/21085835\/DKS.jpg\" alt=\"Credit \/ Getty Images\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Duncan Sheik<\/strong><strong>, the voice behind one of the most unforgettable songs of the 1990s, and arguably the soundtrack to the summer of 1996, has died aged just 56.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"newsner-1134638696\" class=\"newsner-after_first_paragraph\">\n<div id=\"intext_201085_1_wrapper\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The singer-songwriter, best known for his \u201996 hit <em>Barely Breathing<\/em>, reportedly passed away last week on Thursday, September 17, in Manhattan.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">His mother, Suzanne Sheik, confirmed to The New York Times that he died from heart failure that led to cardiac arrest. Sheik had been receiving medical care in the days leading up to his death, with a statement from his family saying he was in \u201ccritical but stable\u201d condition just one day before he died<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Duncan Sheik, the voice behind one of the most unforgettable songs of the 1990s, and arguably the soundtrack to the summer of 1996, has died aged just 56. The singer-songwriter, best known for his \u201996 hit Barely Breathing, reportedly passed away last week on Thursday, September 17, in Manhattan. His mother, Suzanne Sheik, confirmed to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"default","_kad_post_title":"default","_kad_post_layout":"default","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"default","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"default","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":895,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions\/895"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alirthmedia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}