Jessi Zazu, Singer For Those Darlins, Has Died At 28
A forceful voice in the Nashville rock scene, Zazu made her battle against cervical cancer public last December.
Nashville-based singer and songwriter Jessi Zazu, formerly of Those Darlins — or "wild one Jessi Darlin, the top singer and writer in a band where everybody sings and writes," as Robert Christgau described her on NPR in 2011 — died at Centennial Hospital in Nashville on Tuesday afternoon following a public battle with cervical cancer. She was 28 years old.
Zazu and her original bandmates Nikki Kvarnes and Kelley Anderson formed Those Darlins when Zazu was still a teenager — and their heated music acted as a
