Almost 4 months after the Grammy Awards, Reina Lafantaisie’s love for Harry Kinds continues to be burning brightly.
Lafantaisie, a self-proclaimed “superfan” who offered Kinds together with his Album of the Yr Grammy for “Harry’s Home” in February, was reunited with the pop star after she attended his Monday live performance in Coventry, England.
The 78-year-old mentioned she and her household have been invited backstage following the efficiency, the place Kinds greeted her with a hug.
“He's probably the most caring humble and right down to earth particular person and such an incredible humorousness,” Lafantaisie wrote on Instagram alongside a pair of pictures that captured the second for posterity. “His smile and joie de vivre lit up the room!”
She additionally shared a brief video of their interplay, displaying Kinds crooning a number of bars of Peaches & Herb’s 1978 traditional, “Reunited.”
Lafantaisie, who lives in Canada and calls herself the “Grammy Granny” on Instagram, was amongst a bunch of followers who have been chosen by the Recording Academy to look onstage on the 2023 Grammy Awards and help host Trevor Noah in presenting the award to this 12 months’s Album of the Yr winner.
One fan representing every of the nominees ― which additionally included Adele, Dangerous Bunny and Beyoncé ― was chosen, seemingly at random.
Talking to “Leisure Tonight Canada” following the Grammys broadcast, Lafantaisie’s granddaughter Renée Grenon mentioned she was contacted by a member of the Recording Academy after she shared a clip of her grandmother gushing over Kinds that went viral on TikTok.
Watch Harry Kinds settle for the 2023 Album of the Yr Grammy under.
“I occurred to be sitting beside her,” Grenon defined, “and for about 10 minutes she went on explaining to all people within the room about why Harry Kinds is the primary entertainer.”
She went on to notice: “And so, I suppose a producer from the Grammys noticed that TikTok and emailed me, however we didn’t actually know what was going to occur till the final minute.”
For her half, Lafantaisie mentioned she was in “a daze” throughout her onstage change with Kinds.
“I couldn’t consider it,” she recalled. “And I simply, I hugged him as exhausting as he hugged me. I simply couldn't consider that he was there …. And I saved saying, ‘I simply I received to maintain it collectively. I received to maintain it collectively.’ Like my knees are getting weaker by the minute.”
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