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Vanessa Bryant broadcasts Kobe and Gianna mural e book proper earlier than 5-year anniversary of helicopter crash

By Editorial Board Published January 24, 2025 2 Min Read
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Vanessa Bryant broadcasts Kobe and Gianna mural e book proper earlier than 5-year anniversary of helicopter crash

When New York avenue artist Andaluz completed his Costa Mesa mural honoring Kobe Bryant, his daughter, Gianna, and seven others who misplaced their lives in a Jan. 26, 2020, helicopter crash, he devoted it to a state that was nonetheless mourning the lack of one in every of its icons.

“I truly hope this piece brings some comfort to all of those that were affected by this tragedy,” Andaluz wrote in an Instagram publish Feb. 24, 2020, upon ending the mission, including “This one is for you Cali. From New York with love.”

5 years later, Andaluz’s loving depiction of Kobe and Gigi in that mural goes worldwide. That portrait of a stoic Bryant along with his daughter resting her head on prime of his is getting used as the quilt artwork for the upcoming e book “Mamba & Mambacita Forever.”

The e book — written by Bryant’s spouse and Gianna’s mom Vanessa Bryant and photographed by longtime Bryant and NBA photographer Andrew Bernstein — will function photographs and tales of greater than 100 murals across the globe honoring the beloved father and daughter.

“Wow my mural made the cover of the Kobe & Gigi mural book Vanessa Bryant is putting out,” Andaluz wrote on Instagram on Wednesday, the identical day Vanessa made the e book’s announcement and 4 days earlier than the five-year anniversary of the crash in Calabasas.

The e book is slated to be launched Aug. 19, days earlier than what would have been Bryant’s forty seventh birthday (Aug. 23) and what has develop into referred to as Mamba Day (Aug. 24 due to Bryant’s two jersey numbers 8 and 24). Will probably be printed by MCD Books, which additionally printed Bryant’s “The Mamba Mentality: How I Play” in 2018.

“‘Mamba & Mambacita Forever’ ensures that the murals of Kobe and Gianna Bryant will live on even after the most monumental murals themselves have all crumbled,” the writer wrote Wednesday on Instagram.

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