Caine Starks, brother of singer-songwriter Wyn Starks passed away on November 15, 2020.
The two brothers are also twins and were born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where they spent much of their childhood. The brothers were close from a young age, but Wyn said they drifted apart as life took them down different roads.
The road life took Wyn down was a life full of music, art, and accepting yourself for who you are. Wyn is an openly gay man who has appeared on American Idol and America’s Got Talent, where he has wowed fans and judges alike, most famously when he made Judge Sofia Vergara cry with an original song.
With 17K followers on Instagram and 1.5K followers on Twitter, Wyn is fast growing to be quite the sensation, and the recent release of his album Black Is Golden has continued his upward momentum.
The road life took Caine down was a darker one. Caine Starks became a drug dealer and, on December 6, 2011, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute Oxycodone, Coxymporphone, and Heroin, as well as possessing a firearm during a drug trafficking crime. He was sentenced to 144 months (12 years) imprisonment on July 31, 2012.
Caine Starks Cause Of Death And Obituary
Wyn Starks announced the death of his brother on America’s Got Talent when he sang his original song “Who I Am.”
However, Starks, nor anyone close to Caine Starks, has announced the exact cause of his death. Following his trial, Caine Starks was imprisoned in the Federal Correctional Institution Schuylkill in Minersville, Pennsylvania. He was scheduled to be released on April 27, 2022.
Though the exact cause of his death has not been revealed, many speculate that Caine Starks could have passed away due to complications from Covid-19. It is a case of supreme tragedy that Caine Starks died two years before the end of his long prison sentence.
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When Wyn Starks shared the story of his brother’s life, omitting his incarceration, it brought tears to the audience and himself, as it is quite a tragic story. However, the song “Who I Am” that Wyn decided to play in his brother’s memory was a fitting tribute not only to the twin but to Wyn himself, as the song details Wyn’s childhood and, in doing so, Caine’s as well.
The story of Caine Starks stands in stark contrast to Wyn’s, and perhaps that is the greater tragedy than the one of his death.
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Caine Starks story is tied to his brother’s simply in how unlike the two stories are.
If average America’s Got Talent fan was asked, upon seeing the audition tape of the then 39-year-old Wyn Starks, a bespectacled and clean-cut African American gentleman, if he had an incarcerated brother, then many probably would not be able to believe it. And it’s true. When the news broke out about the nature of Caine Starks’s crimes and just where he was, people were shocked, to say the least.
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Wyn Starks never hid the nature of his brother’s life but was never quick to share it. Caine became a pariah within his family after being caught at 29 for conspiracy to sell some truly heinous drugs.
Still, death forgives all, and now, two years removed from the loss of his brother, Wyn has nothing but endearing things to say about him whenever he posts on social media about his twin.
Losing a family member is hard, but one can’t imagine what it must be like losing a family member who’s had such a tenacious life.
What Happened To Caine Starks?
No one knows what led Caine Starks down the dark path he followed and why it took him, not his twin brother.
One assumes, being twins, that the two were raised in a similar manner, but the way their life turned out is a case study of nature over nurture. Perhaps it was supposed to go this way, but any assumptions cannot be said to be true.
Based on how Wyn Starks talks about his brother now, it seems like the two had a very amicable relationship and loved each other very much. The fact that Caine Starks was able to spend almost a decade in prison might have been due to the support of his family or the resilience brought about by being raised with a lot of grit.
Regardless of his crimes, Caine Starks paid the brunt of his time, and who knows what kind of person he would have been after he’d left prison. He never got the chance to, and that is the third tragedy in the life of Caine Starks.
Wyn Stark is still trucking on, being a media sensation and making a name for himself. He’s stated that sometimes he feels like he has to live for his brother as well, and perhaps that’s his tragedy.
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