Sugar Land Meets Tornado Hit Joplin Family CMT Awards: Video
Zucchero sings a moving version of "Stand Up" tonight (June 8) at the CMT Awards (airing at 20:00 ET), and the benefits are of particular importance Gilberts, family, Joplin, Missouri, whose home was destroyed by the tornado last month.
During a rehearsal of the film on Tuesday, Tiffani and Lexi have been reunited with their parents, Amy and Eric, for the first time since May 22, with the exception of a couple of hours spent watching the remains of their homes. Tiffani Lexi Gilbert and wave flags and sing while running the country duo, in which producers are asking viewers to donate to the American Red Cross. Sugarland has recently released a live version of the song recorded with Little Big Town - titled "Stand Up For Tornado Relief", the performance is available for download on iTunes, with a product to the Red Cross for tornado relief Alabama and Joplin.
"The good thing is making it available for download ... continue delivering," said Billboard Tuesday Sugarland Kristian Bush. "There is no limit to how much can increase the relief effort."
When Bush and Jennifer Nettles wrote "Stand Up", I had no idea of the impact on people whose lives have been displaced by storms last month in the Midwest and Southeast. The idea of the song was Bush, and had a part to write when he reached the door of nettles "one morning for a writing session.
"Actually, all I had to do was finish the second stanza and had a song," Nettles said.
The SG has been brought to the attention Awards CMT by a personal friend who works for MTV. Sugarland CMT producers came to involve the family in their version of "Stand Up" on prices. The family, who are big fans of Sugarland, met with the group during rehearsals. Lexi was particularly pleased that Justin Bieber is expected to be at the ceremony, and during the test on Tuesday, she asked to sit in the seat I occupy in the public.
Since the last time they were together - the day after the tornado, when the girls went to live with relatives while their parents had a sense of the wreckage that was his home - Gilbert bought a new house, where the four will living together again in late June.
"It 's been very difficult to stay away from Tiffany and Lexi, but Joplin is no place for the kids right now," said Amy Gilbert in tears. "When we were driving to Nashville, Lexi just started crying, and I asked him what was wrong, and he told me he had just lost so much. It 's so beautiful, so that we can be together, even if only for a bit '. But because we have been able to buy the house so quickly that we know will not be long until we are all together again permanently. "
Eric Gilbert-day storm, described as an ordinary day, and maybe the rain in the evening. "We also measured Lexi height of the wall, where we have identified the growth of its development," he said. "It was important later, we would have done so because of people through our house, said that the government and the cut and brought to us. We will always be that piece of history that day."
When a large oak tree fell into their backyard, the family took refuge first in the kitchen and a bathroom. Lexi told how their two dogs, Prince and the fairy Tinkerbell, was in the house with them and how they were brave throughout the storm. Two days later, a neighbor who has contributed to the consolidation took her cat, Tigger, huddled under a table.
Sugar Land is just one of many country music acts that have provided assistance and support to victims of recent storms, nettles and was quick to praise his peers. "Our country music friend has a big heart and are among the first to step up to give back to when I need to help people who have suffered damage."
