One of Brazil’s most successful current pop stars, Gabriel Diniz, has been killed in a plane crash.

According to local media, Diniz had jetted off from Sergipe, Brazil to celebrate his girlfriend Karoline Calheiros’s birthday when the plane went down on Monday afternoon killing him along with two pilots.

Diniz was 28 years old.

The Piper PA-28 Cherokee was deemed airworthy, but was licensed for flight training and not for air taxi trips such as the one Diniz was making.

Diniz built up his music career while also working as an electrical engineer. He grew a huge following in Brazil, particularly in the wake of his 2018 hit, Jenifer, which has 237m views on YouTube.