Simplify the following text for a Grade 8 native English-speaking person.
Original: No public notice was given to his death until an obituary by Kyle Gann appeared in the Village Voice dated January 22 , 1991 , eight months after he died .
Simplified: No attention was given to his death until an obituary in the Village Voice by Kyle Gannon January 22 , 1991 , eight months after he died .