Sterling Zen Singletary (19 September 1996 - 17 January 2025) is the dearly beloved son of Laurie and Damon Singletary of Topsfield, MA. Sterling was born in Boston at Brigham and Women's Hospital. He grew up in Cambridge, MA and attended Cambridge Montessori School, graduated from the Graham and Parks Elementary/Middle School in 2009 and Cambridge Rindge and Latin School in 2015. After graduation, he spent an adventurous six weeks traveling across Europe with three of his best friends. He attended his first–and only-choice college–Bennington College in Bennington, VT (also his sister Ariel's alma mater) for three semesters studying music and art. Sterling was exceptional. He was extraordinarily outgoing and gregarious, and he remembered everyone's name and birth date. He taught himself how to use a computer at age two. He enjoyed trying strange and interesting new foods. He loved the color orange, donuts from Vera's on Mass Ave in North Cambridge, and also cider donuts and apples from Tougas Farm in Northborough, MA, his favorite farm. At the age of 11, he was one of six children chosen from thousands who auditioned for season four of the PBS television program, Fetch with Ruff Ruffman, which ran nationally in 2009. In 2023, he transferred from Boston to Los Angeles continuing to work at Intelligentsia Coffee and make music. He was a talented creator of electronic music, and performed with his group, The Field, at the Middle East Cafe in Cambridge when he was only 16 years old. Sterling is survived by his parents, his paternal grandfather Lewis Wood of Charlotte, NC; his brother Christian Zal-Herwitz, PhD, sister-in-law, Tiffany Zal-Herwitz, and niece Ramona Zal-Herwitz of Missoula, MT; his sister Ariel Herwitz and brother-in-law Devin Farrand of Pomona, CA/Mackay, ID; and many uncles, aunts, cousins and friends.