Week #747: TUESDAY July 28, 2020: LIFE OF ZAI, by ZUMA Press Newspaper Tampa Bay Times Photographers Martha Ascensio-Rhine, Tailyr Irvine and Reporter Jay Cridlin.
zReportage.com Story of the Week #747: TUESDAY July 28, 2020: LIFE OF ZAI, by ZUMA Press Newspaper Tampa Bay Times Photographers Martha Ascensio-Rhine, Tailyr Irvine and Reporter Jay Cridlin who worked closely together on a story thats sees a local singer with big dreams keep getting close to stardom. Then her body and mind start to fail her. Jay Cridlin met Zai in August 2017. He followed her at home, in hospitals and through all nine months of her pregnancy, witnessing seizures, breakdowns and personality shifts along the way. He shadowed her at gigs, in the studio and during auditions for American Idol and America’s Got Talent in Tampa, Orlando and Tallahassee. He reviewed hundreds of pages of medical, police and public records and interviewed more than two dozen friends, family members and experts on her life and conditions. Welcome to: LIFE OF ZAI