Winona Brooks (2 January 2000 – 5 March 2022), better known by her stage name Lil Bo Weep (and also known by the name Unaloon) was an Australian singer, rapper, and video

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Biography

Winona Brooks was born in 2000 in Adelaide, Australia. She moved to

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after high school to attend college and graduate, but later had to return to Australia with her family as part of an emergency DFAT repatriation. She started releasing tracks on

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in 2015. She was originally scheduled to feature on

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's debut album '' 17'', but Onfroy ended up not adding the song to the album. On 27 February 2022, on her

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account, she announced that she had been pregnant in 2021, but had lost her child.

Death

Brooks died on 5 March 2022. Her father Matthew broke the news on Facebook: In her last post on her

page, dated 2 March 2022, she explained that she was on heavy medication due to

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(CPTSD) and that she was "mourning the loss of her child".

Discography

Compilation albums *''Solos'' (self-released, 2017) *''Solos 2'' (self-released, 2018) EPs *''Healing Unaloon'' (self-released, 2017 – credited to Unaloon and Lil Bo Weep) *''Dedicationz 1'' (self-released, 2021) *''Illusions'' (self-released, 2021)

References

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