Niko McKnight a singer, guitarist, and the estranged son of R&B singer Brian McKnight, has reportedly died following a battle with most cancers.
The unlucky information was confirmed by Brian’s brother, Claude McKnight, in a video posted to TikTok on Thursday, Could 29. The date Niko handed away nor his age on the time of his passing have been confirmed.
“This morning I discovered that my nephew, Niko McKnight, handed away,” Claude started within the video. “He’d been bravely battling most cancers for the previous two years or so.”
He continued, “Niko was a type of wonderful youngsters quirky, and curious and ridiculously gifted. Superb singer, wonderful guitar participant. Had a terrific eye as a photographer. And a type of youngsters, no less than in my estimation, that you just at all times needed to be round.”
Niko, his siblings, and their mom made headlines years in the past when it was revealed that Brian had an estranged relationship with a number of of his kids. The R&B star has referred to his 4 oldest kids—Brian Jr., Niko, Brianna and Clyde—as “merchandise of sin,” as lately as 2024, saying that “With the intention to stay a life that you just love, it’s important to do away with the evil and the negativity — even when that evil and negativity is expounded [to you],” in line with Web page Six.
Whereas Claude didn’t immediately deal with the household drama, he did allude to the subject.
“I needed to submit this about Niko, about his legacy, about how wonderful he’s, not about what a few of you could have heard about household drama that has existed for fairly a while, in our household,” he stated in his TikTok video. “I don’t know precisely what was happening there, I do know what I’ve seen. I do know what I’ve heard from all events concerned…numerous issues didn’t get resolved.”
Claude McKnight concluded his video by saying, “I do know that child had rather a lot inside, rather a lot consuming at him for a protracted, very long time. I could have contributed to what occurred with him, what I do know is he’s out of ache now. I simply need to uplift that younger man.”
Again in April, Niko spoke overtly about his poor relationship together with his father in a collection of tweets, as captured by Golden Period Tales. Only a month earlier than information of his passing, he wrote, “Generally, I ponder if my dad’s karma is my shut proximity to demise. Like possibly if I find yourself dying, it’ll launch him from the grip of evil.”
He continued in one other, now-deleted tweet, “After I was about to die within the hospital from problems from my most cancers, I simply needed to bury the hatched and listen to him say he loves me and instructed me he couldn’t arbitrarily inform me he loves me. Nonetheless cuts so deep.”
That was removed from the primary time Niko voiced his discontent with the scenario, tweeting in September of 2024: “If I may only one extra group hug between me, my brother, my mother, and my dad–I’d actually be prepared.”
R.I.P. Niko McKnight.
