Social media has been awash with tributes to Adel Al-Jaf, better know by the stage name Adel Euro, who was named among at least 119 victims of a deadly bomb in a popular Baghdad shopping district on Sunday.
The attack happened in the Karrada district while people shopped for the Eid al-Fitr holiday marking the end of the Islamic religious period of Ramadan.
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi ordered changes to Baghdad security measures in the wake of the blast, including withdrawing fake bomb detectors from use.
Al-Jaf had narrowly escaped a similar bombing last year in Iraq's capital.
Leading the tributes was Battery Dance Company, the New York based group who offered dance instruction to Al-Jaf.
Al-Jaf was an active user of Youtube and Facebook, where he frequently posted about the hardships he faced in Iraq.
In a Facebook post from February, he said: "This geographical location in which I live is a storm of destruction, killing, intolerance, lying, hypocrisy, dirty, stupid."
"Because of this thing I decided to make a private world for me to live away from these people and this storm."
