Jade Cicada addresses loss of mother and business manager

Jade Cicada opens up and breaks his silence on losing his mother and longtime manager.

Riddim artist Jade Cicada has opened up about a series of personal losses, sharing with fans that his mother has recently passed away. In a three-page heartfelt statement, the experimental bass artist, born Skyler Alecson, reflects on grief, privacy, and the complicated role music has played throughout his life, starting with his family. As he is known for creating an immersive sonic world at his sets, he has now invited listeners into his personal life.

Skyler described this sense of vulnerability as something that has never come easily, admitting that silence often felt safer than sharing. At this time, however, he has chosen honesty instead of retreat. The loss of his mother marks not just the passing of a parent, but the loss of one of the most devoted supporters of his project, someone who attended his shows, danced in the crowd, and proudly told fans and strangers she was his mom.

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Her passing has also brought up older grief. Jade Cicada lost his father when he was ten, a musician who first introduced him to the language of sound and got him absorbed into making music. With his mother gone, he feels as though the last living connection to his childhood has vanished. In processing her death, he has found himself revisiting both losses at once, grieving not only his parents but also the younger version of himself who never fully had the space to grieve.

For many artists, music serves as an escape. For him, it has done the opposite. Creating has meant stepping directly into emotion rather than avoiding it. He has acknowledged that pauses in his work have not come from indifference, but from recognizing when the emotional weight has been too heavy to turn into sound.

Beyond family loss, he revealed that he ended an eight-year relationship with his business manager nearly two years ago. What he once thought was built on trust has fallen apart, forcing him to reassess both his professional life and his sense of stability in the future of his project.

Now living in his mother’s home and rebuilding his studio in the same bedroom where his project first took shape in 2014, Jade Cicada stands at a crossroads of memory and progress. He reassured fans he is not disappearing, only recalibrating. In doing so, he has reminded everyone that even the most psychedelic worlds are created by very human hands.

Featured image courtesy of Filmore Auditorium website

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