Noah Cyrus Performs With Billy Ray Cyrus After Family Drama Is Seemingly Resolved
The 'July' singer-songwriter was joined on stage by her famous father, Billy Ray Cyrus, who attended the show with his girlfriend, Elizabeth Hurley. Noah and Billy Ray performed their song, 'Stand Still,' and a rendition of the country crooner's track 'With You,' which she reimagined for her album.
In fan-captured footage, the father-daughter duo shared a warm embrace and praised each other in front of the crowd. Noah then fixed the feathers that had fallen off her dad's signature wide-brim hat.
After the show, Noah shared a sweet message in tribute to her dad, whom she credited for her musical roots. 'Thank you always to my incredibly talented band and to my father, who I love so dearly, for joining us,' she wrote, in part, alongside stunning images and clips from the show. 'We got to sing 'Stand Still' and 'With You,' which is actually a song my father wrote from his childhood bedroom and was one of the first songs he ever wrote.'
She added that the 'Achy Breaky Heart' hitmaker used to serenade her with the song throughout her childhood.
'That's been a song of comfort that he's sung to me since I was a little kid and it meant so much to me to be singing it together and share that moment with one another,' she continued. 'It's always been the gift of music that's brought us together. Feeling extremely grateful for the incredible fans who were singing every word from the new record. I'm one lucky girl.'
The performance comes hot off the release of Noah's sophomore album, I Want My Loved Ones to Go with Me, which included her emotional lead single, 'Don't Put It All on Me,' with Fleet Foxes. The track was co-written with her brother, Braison Cyrus, and alluded to reported drama her family has faced in recent years.
'I have always been the observer in our family, and Braison wrote about how I tend to carry the weight of that on my shoulders,' the Grammy nominee wrote in a press release sent to Cosmopolitan.
It seems that things are all good between the Cyruses, as Noah performed with Billy Ray and her older sis, Miley Cyrus, opened up about her connection to her parents in a May interview with The New York Times' The Interview podcast.
'My mom is like so in love with my stepdad Dom, who I also just completely adore,' Miley said of Tish Cyrus's marriage to Dom Purcell. 'And now that my dad, I see him finding happiness outside of that too, I can love them both as individuals instead of as a kind of, you know, a parental pairing.'
'At first, it's hard,' Miley said, referring to her parents' budding romances with new people. 'The little kid in you reacts before the adult in you and go, 'Yes, that's your dad, but that's just another person that deserves to be in his bliss and be happy.''
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