Matt Mauser is grateful for everything he has, a year after his wife Christina Mauser died in a helicopter accident with Gianna and Kobe Bryant on January 26, 2020.
On the one-year anniversary of the tragic accident, the musician presented Concert for Christina: a musical tribute for the benefit of the Christina Mauser Foundation. With the help of a band, Matt sang some of his favorite songs, including “Lovely Day” by Bill Withers.
He also sang a song with his daughter Penny, 12, that he said he almost boarded the plane on that fateful day.
Matt shared the moving story, explaining that he had scheduled a show for January 26th and asked Christina if Penny could miss the basketball tournament that she was scheduled to compete to perform with him. He remembers telling Christina, “Well, I have a show and she’s feeling fine, so I don’t want her to go because she’s going to perform. it is song.”
“We never look back,” he continued. “We don’t think about whether destiny would take us in a different direction or not. We just continue with what we know.”