Everything We Know About D4vd, From the Body Found in His Car to His Career
Inside the quick rise and recent news surrounding the 20-year-old pop singer.
d4vd attends the Coperni Womenswear Fall/Winter 2025-2026 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Adidas Arena on March 09, 2025 in Paris, France. Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Image
After breaking through as a Gen Z pop singer, D4vd has been making headlines in relation to a tragedy over the past few weeks. The artist, whose real name is David Anthony Burke, rose to fame as a genre-blending musician after pivoting away from YouTube content creation; up until last week, he was in the throes of a massive world tour. Now, those tour dates have been cancelled, following the early September discovery of a deceased teenage girl in a car registered to the singer.
On Sept. 8, a decomposed body was found in the singer’s impounded Tesla. Authorities identified the decomposed remains — which were discovered in the Tesla’s trunk while the car was in a Los Angeles tow lot — using forensics, and determined that the body belonged to 15-year-old Celeste Rivas. According to NBC News, the teen had been reported as missing and was last seen in April 2024, and her death is being investigated as a homicide. Following the identification of the body, the Internet exploded with speculative detective work, drawing connections between Rivas and D4vd, and linking the singer to the case.
The singer’s rep previously said in a statement that D4vd is “fully cooperating with the authorities,” and no charges have been brought against the 20-year-old. He canceled the remaining dates of his world tour last week.
As the heartbreaking story develops, here’s everything you need to know about D4vd’s career, and how the pop singer enjoyed a meteoric rise prior to the tragic events of recent weeks.
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2021: D4vd Transitions From Video Game Livestreams to Making Music
D4vd got his start in the early 2020s while live streaming video games, and in interviews credited Fortnite with exposing him to The Neighbourhood, Arctic Monkeys and other alternative artists. Prior to that, D4vd said he strictly listening to gospel music growing up. After some time on Fortnite, he made his first songs under the D4vd moniker titled “Run Away” and “You and I.” He used the latter song for gameplay montage videos, and noticed that people started taking it and using it in their own montages.
“…I was like, ‘Okay, this could be something,’ so I kept making songs,” D4vd told VMAN in 2022.
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2022: D4vd Drops Viral Hits “Romantic Homicide” and “Here With Me”
D4vd released two singles in 2022 to get fans ready for his debut EP, Petals to Thorns. The first single was “Romantic Homicide,” which dropped in July 2022 and went viral on TikTok, eventually peaking at No. 33 on the Billboard Hot 100. The second single was “Here With Me,” which also went viral online and hit No. 60 on the chart.
The song’s success led to D4vd being contacted by Darkroom and Interscope Records, leading to him signing with the label in September 2022.
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2023: D4vd Drops His EPs ‘Petals to Thorns’ and ‘The Lost Petals’
D4vd then officially made his recording debut with the release of his EP Petals to Thorns in May 2023. The EP became D4vd’s first entry on the Billboard 200, peaking at No. 105. After the success of Petals to Thorns, D4vd closed out the year with The Lost Petals EP that September, adding to the buzz surrounding the young artist.
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February 2023: D4vd Becomes Opener on SZA’s SOS Tour
D4vd was announced as one of the openers on SZA’s blockbuster SOS tour, which kicked off in February 2023. D4vd was one of three openers, joining Omar Apollo and Raye.
“I’m SZA’s biggest fan. I’m super grateful to her,” D4vd told Rolling Stone at the time. “When I got the news I was locked in for the tour, I was in a recording session and I jumped up, threw my headphones and was just going crazy.”
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2024: D4vd Continues to Drop Music
D4vd issued a variety of singles throughout 2024: he dropped “Leave Her” and “2016” in February, and “Feel It,” which appeared on the soundtrack for the Amazon Prime Video TV series Invincible, the following month. In July, D4vd returned again with “There Goes My Baby,” and in November he released “Remember Me,” which was featured on the Arcane soundtrack. Before the year was out, D4vd returned once more with the single, “Where’d It Go Wrong?”
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April 2025: D4vd Releases Debut Album ‘Withered,’ Announces Tour
After dropping another smattering of singles in early 2025, D4vd officially released his debut album Withered in April. D4vd also went viral that month after attempting a backflip during his Coachella performance, and face-planting onstage. The singer laughed off the tumble, and then announced the Withered World Tour days later. The tour kicked off on Aug. 5 in Del Mar, California.
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Sept. 8, 2025: Body is Discovered in Car Registered to D4vd
On Sept. 8, Los Angeles police discovered a body inside an impounded Tesla in Hollywood. The vehicle was reportedly registered to D4vd. A spokesperson for the LAPD told Billboard that officers responded to a call of a “foul odor” coming from the car in a tow yard before finding the “possible human remains.” The case was described as “currently a death investigation.”
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Sept. 17, 2025: Body Identified As Missing 15-Year-Old Girl
Days later, the body found in the Tesla registered to D4vd was identified as a missing 15-year-old girl named Celeste Rivas Hernandez. She had been last seen in April 2024, and had been reported missing. Officials announced that her remains weren’t intact and she had been dead for an “extended period of time.”
The next day, a home in Los Angeles where D4vd had previously stayed was searched by police.
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Sept. 20, 2025: D4vd Cancels Multiple Tour Dates Without Explanation
On Sept. 20, D4vd canceled the last two dates on his U.S. tour and multiple dates on his European tour. Ticketmaster communicated to fans the dates had been canceled, but some tickets for dates in Sweden, France, Poland and Australia scheduled for the end of the year remained available for purchase as of Sept. 22.
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Sept. 21, 2025: Celeste Rivas’ Hometown Hosts Vigil Service
Celeste Rivas’ Inland Empire community of Lake Elsinore, where she lived with her family, held a vigil on Sept. 21, 2025. In an interview with the Los Angeles Times, Rivas’ community members paid their respects to the teen, and said, among other things, that “She deserves justice.”
Link to the source article – https://www.billboard.com/lists/d4vd-body-car-career-everything-we-know/
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