--- title: Christina Grimmie: Justin Bieber Gives Emotional Tribute description: Justin Bieber delivered a tearful tribute to the late Christina Grimmie during a concert in Winnipeg, Manitoba. canonical: https://time.com/4368189/christina-grimmie-justin-bieber-tribute/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-06-14T14:43:08.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:33:20.496Z og:title: Watch Justin Bieber's Emotional Tribute to Christina Grimmie og:description: The singer dedicated "Purpose" to her og:url: https://time.com/4368189/christina-grimmie-justin-bieber-tribute/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Justin Bieber's Emotional Tribute to Christina Grimmie twitter:description: The singer dedicated "Purpose" to her twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Justin Bieber's Tearful Tribute to Christina Grimmie During a Concert > Sponsored content. 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Bieber dedicated his performance of “Purpose” in his home country to Grimmie; during the song, he couldn’t help but shed some tears before singing, “Grimmie, can you hear me?” in the middle of the performance. Bieber and the late singer became close while she was touring with [Bieber’s ex, Selena Gomez](http://time.com/4320988/most-liked-instagram-selena-bomez-justin-bieber/), whose father also managed Grimmie’s career. 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