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Opera Legend Jubilant Sykes Dead; Son Held Following 911 Alert<\/p>\n
Grammy-nominated classical and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes, 71, was killed at his Santa Monica home after police responded to a 911 call reporting an assault in progress around 9:20 p.m. Monday. Officers entered the residence and found Sykes with \u201csignificant injuries,\u201d authorities told KTLA. His son, Micah Sykes, 31, was located inside the home and taken into custody without incident. Police said the case will be booked as suspected homicide and reviewed by prosecutors. A Los Angeles native, Sykes rose from a child soprano to an internationally acclaimed performer, appearing at the Met, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Barbican, the Apollo, and more, with a Grammy-nominated role in Bernstein\u2019s Mass among his defining achievements.<\/p>\n
2 views | 8 days ago<\/span><\/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 timesofindia.indiatimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Opera Legend Jubilant Sykes Dead; Son Held Following 911 Alert Grammy-nominated classical and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes, 71, was killed at his Santa Monica home after police responded to a 911 call reporting an assault in progress around 9:20 p.m. Monday. Officers entered the residence and found Sykes with \u201csignificant injuries,\u201d authorities told KTLA. His […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2205051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[390972,425585,425584,425586,425588,425587],"class_list":["post-2205050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-royalty","tag-british-monarchy-news","tag-kate-middleton-health-update","tag-prince-george-charlotte-louis","tag-princess-of-wales-recovery","tag-royal-holiday-traditions","tag-westminster-abbey-carol-service"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/Royal-Family-Shares-Emotional-Holiday-Moment-After-A-Difficult-And.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205050","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=2205050"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2205052,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2205050\/revisions\/2205052"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2205051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2205050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2205050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2205050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}