Grammy-nominated baritone and gospel singer Jubilant Sykes was found fatally stabbed in his Santa Monica home, and police have arrested his 31-year-old son, Micah Sykes, on suspicion of murder. Police were called to the residence on Monday night after a report of an assault in progress, as reported by The Guardian.
Officers entered the home and found the 71-year-old singer suffering from stab wounds. He was pronounced dead at the scene. A weapon was recovered, and Micah Sykes was taken into custody without incident.
Police described the incident as domestic in nature. There is no ongoing threat to the community, according to investigators. Authorities said the case will be forwarded to the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office for charging consideration.
Sykes was known for his wide-ranging vocal work across opera, gospel, jazz, and classical music. He earned a Grammy nomination in 2010 for his performance in Bernstein’s Mass, has performed at the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy Center, the Hollywood Bowl, and internationally at Deutsche Oper Berlin.
Friends and colleagues described him as both a world-class artist and a deeply rooted community figure. One tribute called him “a singer beyond words.”
Detectives are processing evidence and interviewing family members, as police have confirmed the investigation is active. Anyone with information has been asked to contact the Santa Monica Police.
Sykes leaves behind a long legacy of performance on the world’s greatest stages — and a grieving community stunned by the sudden violence inside his own home.
4 responses to “Jubilant Sykes’ Son Arrested After Opera Singer’s Fatal Stabbing”
Our family was looking forward to hearing him at Grace Community’s Christmas concert. So sad. He was so talented and loved. He will be missed.
Sad. I will just about bet though that son wanted money and Dad (maybe finally) said no. It is a very common mistake with millenial and snowflake parents. They give their children everything and payback can be brutal.
He was a truly beautiful man with a beautiful voice, and the statement of him being a “singer beyond words” is poetic perfection. This is tragedy upon tragedy, and our prayers need to be for the Sykes family–all of them. The only comforts are in knowing that God is good and great is His faithfulness (as Jubilant sang at JMac’s memorial), and that Jubilant is with his beloved Savior. Jubilant was a dear friend and a man of strong faith.
Tonight begins Hanukkah.
The Total Darkness which Hanukkah Represents.
“Bringing more light to the world”, totally misses the point. Hanukkah remembers the P’rushim Tzeddukim Civil War. Jews today have forgotten the meaning and purpose of t’shuva. The Tzeddukim רשעים sought to “convert” Jerusalem into a Greek polis/city state. Assimilated Jews, both Tzeddukim and the Reshonim rabbis of Spain – rejected the revelation of the Oral Torah at Horev. Which the kabbalah of rabbi Akiva’s פרדס defines through its unique 4 part inductive reasoning logical thought process. This system of logic specifically compares Judicial Case rulings to other similiar but different Judicial Case rulings.
The Tzeddukim, sons of Aaron, had totally assimilated, no different from the rabbis of Spain during the early years of the Middle Ages when Muslim armies conquered Spain and discovered the concealed ancient Greek philosophies and mathematics which the church concealed after Constantine became emperor; hence the period known as the “Dark Ages”. Deductive syllogism logic relies upon plane geometry which limits reality to a fixed 3 dimensional world. Much like the scientific method popular among science today limits reality to empirical evidence.
The fundamental difference between the victory of the P’rushim in Judea over the assimilated T’zeddukim, to the inverse victory of assimilated rabbis in Spain, specifically the Rambam Civil War, these assimilated and intermarried Spanish rabbis, they totally embraced Greek philosophy just like as did the Tzeddukim some 1000 years earlier. Specifically the 3 part syllogism logic of deductive reasoning, which assimilated and intermarried Jews of Spain abandoned and forgot the Oral Torah.
How did these assimilated and intermarried Reshonim rabbis of Spain forget and abandon the Torah? They failed to learn inductive פרדס logic whose inductive reasoning closely resembles the dynamics of Calculus variables. Greek syllogism logic more approaches a fixed static reasoning. Something like the engineering of constructing a bridge to span a river. They perverted both T’NaCH & Talmudic judicial courtroom law into cult of personality “Legislative” statute law. Law established through courts completely different from Law established by Legislative decrees. No different from Greek and Roman statute law. This foreign alien legal system organized law into neat classifications, like as did the Rambam’s Yad Chazakah perversion of Talmudic halachot. Rather than upon Judicial Mishnaic Case/Rule courtroom rulings.
How did this radically change both T’NaCH and Talmud? Notice that the statute law halachic codifications made by the Rambam, Tur, Beit Yosef/Shulkan Aruch – they cannot and do not assist a Talmudic scholar to learn a page of Gemara. Why? The Rambam failed to attach his halachic rulings affixed to a specific Mishna like as did the B’HaG, Rif, Rosh and Baali Tosafot common law halachic codes/commentaries.
Hence by organizing Gemara halacha divorced from their most essential root Mishna – which the Gemara comments solely upon, the Rambams posok halacha – although straight from the pages of the Talmud – had no meaning as it related to a required specific root Mishna. The B’HaG, Rif and Rosh common law codifications almost ALWAYS open with the fundamentally required root Mishna upon which the Gemara halachot comment upon.
In the Talmud those halachot serve their designated essential purpose as common law judicial precedents. The Gemara interprets or re-interpret the intent/כוונה language of the root Mishna, viewed from the fixed witness perspective that these Gemarah Halachic precedents “see or view” the root Mishna, based upon a limited and defined perspective. Much like the Front, Top, Side views of a blue-print that permits a קבלן to construct a building.
Whereas the victorious P’rushim of Judea lit the lights of Chanukkah with the dedication to only interpret the intent of the Written Torah Constitution, and Sanhedrin Court common law justice system, limited only to פרדס inductive logic; the assimilated rabbis of Spain “forgot the Oral Torah” just like the blessing of Hanukkah in the midst of ברכת המזון depicts the Tzeddukim רשעים.
Jews today for the most part do not have the least bit of a clue what distinguishes פרדס logic from Greek syllogism logic. The do not grasp the essential facts that just as a loom as its warp and weft threads, so too the Talmud has its halachic and aggadic “threads”. Jews today have forgotten the Torah and therefore blown out the Hanukkah lights. Just as likewise did the assimilated and intermarried Reshonim rabbis of Spain. This dark reality exposed the lights of Hannukah which repudiated the assimilated and intermarried Tzeddukim and later Karaim g’lut Jewry.
The Rambam code caused a ירידות הדורות domino effect which permitted the Karaite rabbis to prevail over traditional common law judicial Judaism. The Karaites like their assimilated and intermarried Tzeddukim traitor fore fathers rejected the revelation of the Oral Torah on Yom Kippur at Horev 40 days after the sin of the Golden Calf. Blowing out the lights of Hanukkah worships the Golden Calf preferred religious belief systems over righteous Courtroom justice which strives to make fair compensation of damages inflicted. Hence Hanukkah today depict a reality of total darkness rather than light.