D4VD has millions of listeners on digital platforms. Was in world tour when the body was discovered
Los Angeles authorities confirmed the identity of the victim found in September inside a car recorded on behalf of US singer D4VD, an artist who won millions of listeners on digital platforms. He is Celeste Rivas, a teenager who had been missing since April 2024.
The discovery came on September 8, after employees of a Hollywood trailer park alerting the police to an “intense and suspicious smell” from Tesla that had been towed days earlier. Inside the luggage, the agents found remains in an advanced state of decomposition. The Texas registration car was registered in the name of 20 -year -old David Anthony Burke, known in the artistic environment as D4VD.

The poster shared by the family when the young woman disappeared in April 2024
According to the report of the coroner of Los Angeles County, the young man media 1.57 meters, had corrugated black hair, wore a top and black leggings and had a tattoo on his right index finger with the inscription “Shhh …”. On social networks, fans caught the attention that the singer has to the victim. In addition, Celeste’s mother told the American magazine TMZ that the girl had a boyfriend named David.
In December 2023, DVD4 shared the excerpt of a love song called “Celeste”, in which he talks about a passion for which he “is obsessed” but does not easily open to him.
“Oh, heavenly / I smell it in my clothes like cigarettes // I hear your voice every time I breathe / I’m obsessed.”
d4vd – Celeste (Demo)
An alleged song leaked in December of 2023 about Celeste
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Police said the singer is cooperating with the investigation, but has not confirmed if there is any suspects. Celeste Rivas, born in Lake Elsinore, California, had disappeared on April 5, 2024, when she was 13. The causes and date of death continue to find out.
The singer was in world tour when the case came to public, with concerts marked in cities in the United States, the United Kingdom and Europe.