Nell Smith, Flaming Lips collaborator, dead at 17: 'Hold your kids extra tight tonight'

Nell Smith, the young vocalist from Canada who collaborated with the Flaming Lips, has died astatine property 17.

Representatives for Smith confirmed the quality to Fox News Digital.

Her household besides shared a station connected societal media, with photos of Smith done the years.

"It pains america truthful overmuch to accidental that our feisty, talented, unique, beauteous girl was cruelly taken from america connected Saturday night," they wrote. "We are reeling from the quality and don’t cognize what to bash oregon say."

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Nell Smith, a young instrumentalist who collaborated with The Flaming Lips, has died astatine 17. (Family of Nell Smith/Instagram)

They continued, "She had truthful overmuch much to acquisition and to springiness this satellite but we are grateful that she got to acquisition truthful precise overmuch successful her 17 years. She has near an indelible people connected the satellite and an unfillable chasm successful our hearts."

"Hold your kids other choky contiguous and for present delight permission america to enactment done things. We volition outcry erstwhile we request you," the post, signed her family, Jude, Rachel, Jed and Ike, concluded.

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A origin of decease has not been confirmed by the family.

Fan video from Sunday did amusement Flaming Lips vocalist Wayne Coyne tearfully telling the audience that Smith died successful a car accident.

Wayne Coyne of The Flaming Lips said astatine a performance that Smith died successful a car accident. (Rick Kern/Getty Images)

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Smith was acceptable to merchandise a debut album successful 2025 with the grounds statement Bella Union.

Simon Raymonde, the label’s owner, besides shared a touching tribute to the precocious vocalist connected societal media.

"She had truthful overmuch much to acquisition and to springiness this satellite but we are grateful that she got to acquisition truthful precise overmuch successful her 17 years."

"We are each shocked and devastated to perceive of the abrupt and tragic passing of our creator and beloved person Nell Smith, implicit the play successful British Columbia," Raymonde wrote connected behalf of the label.

The connection continued, "Nell was conscionable 17 and was preparing for the merchandise of her archetypal solo grounds successful aboriginal 2025 connected Bella Union, made successful Brighton with Penelope Isles’ Jack and Lily Wolter. Her archetypal merchandise was an medium of covers of Nick Cave songs recorded with chap Bella Union artistes The Flaming Lips backmost successful 2021 entitled, ‘Where The Viaduct Looms.’"

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"While we each effort and travel to presumption with the atrocious news, and retired of respect to Nell’s grieving family, we are incapable to marque immoderate further comments astatine this time. The Bella Union Family."

Smith’s transportation with The Flaming Lips began successful 2018 erstwhile she was conscionable 12. She attended 1 of the band’s shows successful a parrot costume, which was spotted by Coyne, according to Billboard.

That led to an ongoing relationship betwixt Smith, her family, and Coyne, who encouraged her to larn guitar.

Smith connected with The Flaming Lips successful 2018, and aboriginal worked with them connected a 2021 medium of Nick Cave covers, "Where the Viaduct Looms." (Jim Dyson/Getty Images)

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The COVID-19 pandemic derailed plans to grounds together, but Coyne suggested Smith grounds covers of Nick Cave’s work, starring to their 2021 album, "Where the Viaduct Looms," featuring Smith singing backed by The Flaming Lips.

Coyne told the outlet astatine the time, "It is ever large to conscionable excited, young originative people. With Nell, we could spot she is connected a travel and thought it would beryllium amusive to articulation her for a portion and spot if we could get things going."