Morgan Myles brought all the feels with her 목소리 semifinals performance.
During the live show on Monday night, the 35-year-old Nashville singer performed an emotional rendition of Lady Gaga’s ballad “Always Remember Us This Way” ~에서 스타 탄생 in dedication to her late cousin Mac who died of glioblastoma (an aggressive form of brain cancer) 세의 나이에 33 십이월에 2019.
“We were thick as thieves, me and Mac,” Myles told PEOPLE over Zoom after her performance. “So it just was a lot, 알 잖아? When you lose people like that, it changes the dynamic of your family forever, and it’s a struggle. It still burns that hole in our hearts.”
Myles — who is on coach Camila Cabello’s team — said that she chose to perform “Always Remember Us This Way” in honor of Mac since it “so beautifully describes what I hope our family focuses on: the good times.”
Despite the heavy subject matter, Myles impressively kept her composure until the end of the performance. She credited being able to do so considering she had already sang at her cousin’s funeral three years ago.
“That was probably good practice,” 그녀가 말했다. “I remember staring at the stained glass in the church, just being like, ‘I am in another world. I’m just gonna sing and get through it.'”
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앞서서 그 목소리, Myles released her album Therapy ~에 2020, and she said Mac is “laced” all throughout the songs on it.
“I must have written 70 songs in five-and-a-half months about Mac,” 그녀가 말했다. “There’s a song called ‘I Believe’ on my record, and I wrote that the day he went into end-of-life [케어]. I was a mess. 그건 마치, '괜찮아, 여러분, 여기 우리가 간다. It’s gonna get worse from here.’ 알 잖아? ‘I ‘Believe’ is just a really special song, and he fought the good fight.”
With her 목소리 performance — which left her mom visibly in tears in the audience — and her music, Myles said she hopes people will feel less “alone.”
“I ultimately just wanna be a vessel,” 그녀가 말했다. “I feel like God gave me a gift and that it’s for me to deliver that feeling that we’re not alone in the struggles of life. I want people to feel like they can get through [아무것].”
그 목소리 월요일과 화요일에 방송된다. 8 오후. NBC의 동부 표준시.