{"id":41874,"date":"2020-02-14T15:48:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:48:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1123412"},"modified":"2020-02-14T15:48:48","modified_gmt":"2020-02-14T22:48:48","slug":"vanessa-bryant-sends-love-to-her-forever-valentine-kobe-bryant-in-touching-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/vanessa-bryant-sends-love-to-her-forever-valentine-kobe-bryant-in-touching-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanessa Bryant Sends Love to Her &#8220;Forever Valentine&#8221; Kobe Bryant in Touching Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2020114\/rs_600x600-200214142436-600-Vanessa-Kobe.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<div id=\"video-int-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.2\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-video-text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"17.6\">\n<p><strong>Vanessa Bryant&nbsp;<\/strong>is sending even more love to <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kobe_bryant\">Kobe Bryant<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;and <strong>Gianna Bryant<\/strong> this&nbsp;<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/valentines_day\">Valentine&#8217;s Day<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>She took to Instagram on Friday to post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123084\/vanessa-bryant-announces-change-to-kobe-bryant-s-mamba-foundation-to-honor-daughter-gianna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">a special tribute to her late husband<\/a>, as well as their beloved GiGi. Vanessa&#8217;s post was a throwback photo of her sitting on Kobe&#8217;s lap, the basketball star kissing her cheek as she smiled for the camera. The song playing overtop the photo is&nbsp;<strong>Lauryn Hill<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Tell Him.&#8221; In her caption, the 37-year-old revealed that Valentine&#8217;s Day was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1121074\/spike-lee-wears-a-custom-suit-in-tribute-to-kobe-bryant-on-the-2020-oscars-red-carpet\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the former Lakers player&#8217;s<\/a> favorite holiday.<\/p>\n<p>As she wrote in the touching tribute to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1120730\/kobe-bryant-helicopter-crash-investigation-reveals-new-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">her late husband<\/a>, &#8220;To my forever Valentine, I love you so much. Missing you so much on your favorite holiday. Te amo per sempre. Kisses to you and Gigi in heaven. Happy Valentine&#8217;s Day, my babies. With all my love, your boo-boo. song: Tell Him @mslaurynhill.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She also posted the image and song on her Instagram Story.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"50.520618556701\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"9.1855670103093\">\n<p>In the clip, Hill is heard singing, &#8220;Make me unselfish without bein&#8217; blind \/ Though I may suffer, I&#8217;ll envy it not \/ And endure what comes \/ &#8216;Cause he&#8217;s all that I got and I tell him \/ Tell him I need him.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been two weeks since <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1115880\/vanessa-bryant-breaks-her-silence-on-kobe-bryant-and-daughter-gianna-s-deaths\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">the tragic helicopter crash<\/a> that claimed the lives of Kobe, Gianna and seven others. The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1122162\/kobe-bryant-and-daughter-gianna-laid-to-rest-2-weeks-after-tragic-helicopter-crash\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">father and daughter were laid to rest<\/a> on Feb. 7 a private ceremony.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"49.663141993958\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"5.9425981873112\">\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1118007\/kobe-bryant-s-public-memorial-set-for-february-24-all-the-details\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">public memorial will be held for Kobe and GiGi<\/a> at the Staples Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 24. The event has been titled &#8220;A Celebration of Life for Kobe and Gianna Bryant.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Registration for tickets for the memorial was opened today and will remain open through Monday, Feb. 17. Fans of the late star can sign up for tickets <a href=\"https:\/\/verifiedfan.ticketmaster.com\/kobeandgianna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"tune-in-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"32\">\n<p class=\"tune-in__text\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\">Watch <i>E! News<\/i> weekday mornings at 7 a.m.!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1123412\/vanessa-bryant-sends-love-to-her-forever-valentine-kobe-bryant-in-touching-tribute?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanessa Bryant&nbsp;is sending even more love to Kobe Bryant&nbsp;and Gianna Bryant this&nbsp;Valentine&#8217;s Day. She took to Instagram on Friday to post a special tribute to her late husband, as well as their beloved GiGi. Vanessa&#8217;s post was a throwback photo of her sitting on Kobe&#8217;s lap, the basketball star kissing her cheek as she smiled [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-41874","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-02 20:02:46","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}