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Diane Martel, a prolific music video director who has been behind the timeless visuals for such artists as Mariah Carey<\/a>, Justin Timberlake<\/a>, Sting, and Jennifer Lopez<\/a>, died Thursday after a battle with breast cancer. She was 63.<\/p>\n The director\u2019s family released a statement to Rolling Stone <\/a>confirming the her death.<\/p>\n \u201cDiane passed away peacefully at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital\u2014surrounded by friends and family\u2014after a long battle with breast cancer,\u201d the family said.<\/p>\n Diane Martel was born in New York City on May 7, 1962. After beginning her career as a street artist and creating dance-focused documentaries funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, the director directed her first music video, for Onyx\u2019s \u201cThrow Ya Gunz<\/a>\u201d (1992). She would then work with Mariah Carey on several videos, such as \u201cDreamlover\u201d (1993), \u201cAll I Want for Christmas Is You<\/a>, (1994), and \u201cWhenever You Call<\/a> (1997).<\/p>\n The director would go on to have a prolific career for the next two decades, directing videos such as Justin Timberlake\u2019s \u201cLike I Love You,\u201d Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s \u201cListen,\u201d Robin Thicke\u2019s \u201cBlurred Lines,\u201d and three of Miley Cyrus\u2019 songs, \u201cMalibu,\u201d \u201cYounger Now,\u201d and \u201cWe Can\u2019t Stop.\u201d Martel also served as the creative director of Cyrus\u2019s Bangerz Tour in 2014.<\/p>\n Ciara, who worked with Martel on her latest video for \u201cEcstasy,\u201d posted a tribute to the director shortly after the announcement of her death.<\/p>\n \u201cYou believed in me and I believed in you!\u201d wrote the singer. \u201cYou will forever hold a special place in my heart, and I am forever grateful for all the magic we\u2019ve were able to make together.\u201d<\/p>\n Read the original article on NJ.com<\/a>. Add NJ.com<\/a> as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Diane Martel, a prolific music video director who has been behind the timeless visuals for such artists as Mariah Carey, Justin Timberlake, Sting, and Jennifer Lopez, died Thursday after a battle with breast cancer. She was 63. The director\u2019s family released a statement to Rolling Stone confirming the her death. \u201cDiane passed away peacefully at […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2038761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[52005,375519,22265,24509,312296,22851,376931,314737],"class_list":["post-2038760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-breast-cancer","tag-diane-martel","tag-jennifer-lopez","tag-justin-timberlake","tag-mariah-carey","tag-music-video","tag-music-video-director","tag-rolling-stone"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Prolific-music-video-director-dead-at-63.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2038760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2038760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2038761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2038760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2038760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2038760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Related coverage:<\/b><\/h2>\n