After his death, Flotard took time to regroup, do some overseas aid work, start her own record label and releasea wonderfully ferocious new album, Message to Garcia.
Significantly enough, the very release of this memo remained a top story on Google News for a full day because its message is the one people want to hear.
Two weeks before the scheduled release of his first retail album, "Channel Orange, " the singer published amessage online that described a "first love" he had with a man.