Keenan Cahill

Keenan Cahill † (March 20, 1995 – December 29, 2022 [aged 27]) was an American YouTuber and internet celebrity who gained fame in the early 2010s for his viral videos in which he lip-synced to popular songs.
==Career==
At a Danish award show called TV 2 Zulu Awards 2011, Cahill performed in a video where he was lip-synching the songs nominated for the Hit of the Year award. In April, he appeared with Brian Wilson and Cody Ross of the San Francisco Giants performing Taio Cruz's hit, "Dynamite". He was nominated for a Teen Choice Award for Choice Web Star.
During her California Dreams Tour, Katy Perry met Keenan and they performed "Teenage Dream" together in a video. In August, a war of words via Twitter between Cahill and WWE wrestler The Miz culminated in the two facing off in a "lip-sync battle" with the chosen song being The Miz's WWE entrance theme ("I Came to Play" by Downstait).
Cahill was nominated for Viral Web Star at the J-14 Awards in September. In the fall, he performed in a music video with The Oak Ridge Boys for their song "What'cha Gonna Do" and appeared with them at the Grand Ole Opry.
A one-hour documentary about him aired on NT1 in France, Belgium, and Switzerland, reportedly watched by 5 million people. He later had a 13-minute documentary air on M6 in France.
==Personal life and death==
Cahill had Maroteaux–Lamy syndrome, which in his case resulted in developing an appearance much like that of people with dwarfism. He was 127 centimeters, with thickening of the dura, shortened trunk, crouched stance, restricted joint movement, and enlarged hands. Diagnosed at the age of one, Cahill was treated with a bone marrow transplant in 1997 to slow down the progression of the disease, and he had multiple surgeries, including surgery to relieve intracranial pressure.
Cahill died on December 29, 2022, following open-heart surgery on December 15.
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