Are you sure that the Katrina Vasquez in these pictures isn’t a different Katrina Vasquez???? I’ve known the one in those pictures since she was three years old. My mom was a friend of her grandmother’s. (and we know her mother) I didn’t know she died and I’ve been looking for her. I still don’t believe it.
Rise_Robot
January 29, 2008
I miss her too. She was a brilliant woman. Artistic on many fronts. You’d know this by hanging out with her in a few moments. It would have been nice to see her continue to develop. I know she had a rough start, but she turned that around in a big way. I’ll be having some drinks for her tonight. RIP Hopey!
today i visited her grave at hollywood forever and took some pictures, my brother remembers her from the kontrol faktory days in hollywood, i kinda remember her, RIP Katrina “Hopey”
- Mike Orgillon
3.15.08
Mischa
September 4, 2008
I think of Katrina all the time. I still feel robbed. I’ll miss you until I see you again… Love, Mischa
Iris
September 8, 2008
I always think about her, funny I have the original print to the pics on the site, i think i took the pic it’s the Earhtlink parking lot we use to work together. I actually have her childhood photo album maybe I should send pics so they can posted. Please contact me if ur interested.
I miss her so much
/\/\ /\ X
September 22, 2008
Thanks for putting this up. Its tragic really… I am a filmmaker and am forced to drive by Hollywood Forever and it gets under my skin just as much today as it did several thousand times ago.
Best just not to take Santa Monica Blvd.
Willy
October 30, 2008
A little story to share with other Kat lovers: We met in high school at a depressing time form me, made me smile when I thought I couldn’t. A lot of my friends felt Kat was not a good friend for me. After graduating I lent her $1,000 to help buy a car and go to school. As everyone who knew her knew, she had a lot of bad breaks in her life. My friends called her a deadbeat, I said “she’ll pay me back when she can. She’s my friend and I trust her.” It took maybe five years, but she paid me back every cent after a car accident settlement, plus a bit extra. That’s when she started to really get her life together and her singing really took off. All my friends finally saw her for the caring, loving friend she always was to me. We drifted in and out of each other’s life for years and I found out she was gone when someone contacted me to tell me she named me in her life insurance. I bought a home with it (i’ve since sold it and moved north), planted a tree in her memory. It was the home Katrina help make. She was a flower plucked too early.
Very nice to read comments from people fortunate enough to have known Katrina Vasquez. I first heard her voice on some Pumalin mp3’s a friend let me listen to a few years ago- hauntingly beautiful. I immediately tried to track down any other recordings by Katrina, only to learn that she had tragically passed away. I frequently listen to those recordings, wondering what might have been. Thank you for sharing.
Devan
December 24, 2008
Several years back, a friend sent me a big pile of mp3s. As I was going through them, I found six songs by Pumalin. I could barely deal with how great they were. I asked my friend where I could get more of this haunting, beautiful music, and she told me the story of what happened to Katrina. I have listened to those six songs over and over for years since then, and every time it makes me as sad as it did when I first heard what happened. Life is so uncaring to take her away right as her star was about to rise.
I think what plagues me the most is that, with each passing year, these six treasures on my iPod become more and more obscure. I wonder how long before all the people who listen to her music could fit in one small room. What a tragedy. I wish I could have met her. I suppose the best I can do is to keep playing these songs for other people and telling what I know of her story.
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chris
January 10, 2008
I still think of her sometimes.
kim hanna
January 17, 2008
Are you sure that the Katrina Vasquez in these pictures isn’t a different Katrina Vasquez???? I’ve known the one in those pictures since she was three years old. My mom was a friend of her grandmother’s. (and we know her mother) I didn’t know she died and I’ve been looking for her. I still don’t believe it.
Rise_Robot
January 29, 2008
I miss her too. She was a brilliant woman. Artistic on many fronts. You’d know this by hanging out with her in a few moments. It would have been nice to see her continue to develop. I know she had a rough start, but she turned that around in a big way. I’ll be having some drinks for her tonight. RIP Hopey!
Mikael
March 15, 2008
today i visited her grave at hollywood forever and took some pictures, my brother remembers her from the kontrol faktory days in hollywood, i kinda remember her, RIP Katrina “Hopey”
- Mike Orgillon
3.15.08
Mischa
September 4, 2008
I think of Katrina all the time. I still feel robbed. I’ll miss you until I see you again… Love, Mischa
Iris
September 8, 2008
I always think about her, funny I have the original print to the pics on the site, i think i took the pic it’s the Earhtlink parking lot we use to work together. I actually have her childhood photo album maybe I should send pics so they can posted. Please contact me if ur interested.
I miss her so much
/\/\ /\ X
September 22, 2008
Thanks for putting this up. Its tragic really… I am a filmmaker and am forced to drive by Hollywood Forever and it gets under my skin just as much today as it did several thousand times ago.
Best just not to take Santa Monica Blvd.
Willy
October 30, 2008
A little story to share with other Kat lovers: We met in high school at a depressing time form me, made me smile when I thought I couldn’t. A lot of my friends felt Kat was not a good friend for me. After graduating I lent her $1,000 to help buy a car and go to school. As everyone who knew her knew, she had a lot of bad breaks in her life. My friends called her a deadbeat, I said “she’ll pay me back when she can. She’s my friend and I trust her.” It took maybe five years, but she paid me back every cent after a car accident settlement, plus a bit extra. That’s when she started to really get her life together and her singing really took off. All my friends finally saw her for the caring, loving friend she always was to me. We drifted in and out of each other’s life for years and I found out she was gone when someone contacted me to tell me she named me in her life insurance. I bought a home with it (i’ve since sold it and moved north), planted a tree in her memory. It was the home Katrina help make. She was a flower plucked too early.
Mark Simons
December 17, 2008
Very nice to read comments from people fortunate enough to have known Katrina Vasquez. I first heard her voice on some Pumalin mp3’s a friend let me listen to a few years ago- hauntingly beautiful. I immediately tried to track down any other recordings by Katrina, only to learn that she had tragically passed away. I frequently listen to those recordings, wondering what might have been. Thank you for sharing.
Devan
December 24, 2008
Several years back, a friend sent me a big pile of mp3s. As I was going through them, I found six songs by Pumalin. I could barely deal with how great they were. I asked my friend where I could get more of this haunting, beautiful music, and she told me the story of what happened to Katrina. I have listened to those six songs over and over for years since then, and every time it makes me as sad as it did when I first heard what happened. Life is so uncaring to take her away right as her star was about to rise.
I think what plagues me the most is that, with each passing year, these six treasures on my iPod become more and more obscure. I wonder how long before all the people who listen to her music could fit in one small room. What a tragedy. I wish I could have met her. I suppose the best I can do is to keep playing these songs for other people and telling what I know of her story.
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