Utah children's choir honors past member and suicide prevention month with Linkin Park cover

SANDY — One Voice Children's Choir is using Suicide Prevention and Awareness Month to "focus on the light that we know follows dark days."

This past summer, the choir's director Masa Fukuda learned about the suicide of one of the choir's first members, Megan Knorr.

"For some artists, intense creativity goes hand in hand with extreme emotional ups and downs," Knorr's obituary reads. "Megan experienced this, particularly in her young adulthood. We are thankful that she stayed with us as long as she did."

The video shows current members of the Utah-based choir performing their version of Chester Bennington's "One More Light" with lyrics saying, "Who cares if one more light goes out? Well, I do."

Throughout the video, choir members, whose ages range from 4 to 18-years-old according to their website, hold signs that say "there is hope", "there are great days ahead", "choose to stay", and "choose to live." A woman who appears to be Knorr's mother shows the void that losing a loved one to suicide leaves as she goes through photos and other personal items.

The video's description lists "resources for our friends around the world. See the Signs. Save a Life. Not One More Light Lost!"

One Voice Children's Choir originated from a group of children who sang at the 2002 Winter Olympics in Salt Lake City, according to the group's website. All of the 140 children in the choir live in northern Utah.

Since it began, the choir has won several awards, including the John Lennon International Music Award, and went viral in 2014 with their version of "Let It Go" from Disney's Frozen.

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