Isaac Sanguma has been making music for about 7 years, but he wasn’t going to write a song about the deadly shooting that happened at Apalachee High School, where he is a student.
“I didn’t want to mean disrespect to any of the families,” he said. “I was like, ‘Nah, this is too touchy.’ But then inside, I just felt like a lot of people need to get to know this story.”
If others didn’t know the story from media coverage, a lot of people got to know it through a song Sanguma composed and posted on social media site TikTok .
Sanguma is a 16-year-old junior at Apalachee High, where a 14-year-old student allegedly opened fire killing two students and two teachers. One of those teachers was Sanguma’s Algebra teacher, Cristina Irimie . The song is called “Forever Irimie” in her honor.
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“I really never expected this,” he said. “I’ve been rapping since, what, fifth grade? I never knew that this was going to be my breakthrough, sadly.”