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BOUNTIFUL – A community of artists and friends gathered Sunday to remember a West Bountiful man who was killed in a London terror attack on Wednesday.
Between his Onion Street Recording Studio and volunteering at the Bountiful Davis Art Center, Kurt Cochran’s passion for music influenced many lives.
“He’d touch people the same way music does,” said Cochran’s business partner Bret Layton.
For Layton, it's difficult to believe his friend and partner is really gone.
“(It) just does not feel real," Layton said. “Why’d it even have to happen in the first place, you know?”
Layton and others in attendance turned to music to cope with their loss and honor Cochran’s life and his love for music.
“It’s that powerful,” Layton said. “(Music) makes you think of other things, and the good things. It just brings back great memories. Music is just so powerful, and he knew that.”
Cochran’s love of music took him to the Bountiful Davis Art Center, where he and his wife, Melissa, volunteered for several years. Emma Dugal, the art center's executive director, said the couple helped run the sound stage at Summerfest.
Cochran not only loved art, he loved people, Dugal said.
“I just remember how thrilled he was with each of his people who came to his studio,” she said. “He just thought they were the best ever — and that came across.”
On Sunday, many of those people are healing together, the way Cochran would have wanted — through music. The service was even live-streamed to London so Melissa Cochran could participate from the hospital where she is recovering.