Naya Rivera‘s Glee co-stars honored the late singer-actress by lending their voices on a beforehand unreleased observe.
Kevin McHale, Heather Morris, Ashley Fink, Vanessa Lengies, Amber Riley and Jenna Ushkowitz reunited so as to add the ending touches to “Prayers for the Broken,” which Rivera first recorded in 2012. The observe was posthumously launched on Friday. In response to Alexandria Home — a charity Rivera was extremely concerned with previous to her tragic loss of life in 2020 — proceeds from the observe will profit the charity’s fourth annual Snixxmas Charity Fundraiser.
“We’re unveiling a previously unreleased Naya Rivera song recorded in 2012. With blessings from the song’s writers, Lindy Robbins and Isaac Hasson, Naya’s mother, Yolanda Previtire, and featuring new background vocals by Glee cast members, it’s a touching tribute to Naya’s enduring legacy,” the charity stated on its web site.
Alexandria Home was based in 1996 and it supplies transitional housing for girls and youngsters within the technique of transferring from emergency shelter to financial stability and everlasting housing.
McHale implored followers to “celebrate the gifts Naya gave to us, her talent and her heart.” He added, “This song has meant so much to me over the years and now I hope it will for all of you.”
Earlier this 12 months in the course of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes, Darren Criss, Iqbal Theba, Morris and McHale additionally reunited and paid tribute to Rivera with their picket signal. Morris’ signal included a photograph of Rivera in character as Santana Lopez together with the quote, “Only straight I am is straight-up broke.”
Jacob Artist, Vanessa Lengies, Jenna Ushkowitz and Becca Tobin had been among the many present’s different stars who spent the day collectively, together with a number of writers and crew members together with sequence co-creator Brad Falchuk.
Hollywood mourned Rivera’s loss of life in the course of the top of the pandemic, when her physique was discovered in Lake Piru in California again in July 2020, following a ship outing together with her then-4-year-old son, Josey. The Ventura County Medical Examiner’s Workplace later confirmed that the reason for loss of life was drowning by chance.
She was 33.
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