- Braison Cyrus, dad Billy Ray Cyrus and sister Noah Cyrus took half within the charity single “Oh What a Dream We Had,” benefiting the Stop Most cancers Basis
- Braison tells PEOPLE he needs to “make music about issues that matter”
- He additionally opens up about writing music for sister Noah, producing for dad Billy Ray and sister Miley’s new undertaking
Braison Cyrus is aware of simply how devastating most cancers may be. His grandfather — dad to his dad Billy Ray Cyrus — died of lung most cancers in 2006, and the daughter of his finest good friend was recognized with lymphoma at 9 years outdated.
It’s the rationale why Braison was fast to leap on board a brand new charity single benefiting the Prevent Cancer Foundation — and why he knew it was a no brainer to recruit Billy Ray and his sister, Noah Cyrus.
“I believe it’s nearly not possible to seek out any person who hasn’t been affected by most cancers ultimately,” the singer-songwriter, 30, tells PEOPLE. “So I believe a variety of time, individuals who work within the house that all of us do, it’s like, ‘How will we assist? How will we do that?’ The apparent suits have been me going to my dad and Noah and seeing if they’d do [this song] as effectively.”
Billy Ray, 63, and Noah, 25, be a part of Braison in addition to a star-studded lineup together with Billy Idol, Il Divo, Richard Marx and extra on the tune “Oh What a Dream We Had.” The tune — a music video for which was launched in March and has since racked up 2.9 million views — advantages the Stop Most cancers Basis, a nonprofit that has championed analysis, training and advocacy efforts to make most cancers each preventable and beatable.
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“I obtained my dad first after which, Noah’s not in Nashville on a regular basis, so it’s a bit of difficult,” he explains. “However we did it. We recorded my dad’s vocal at his home in his lounge. Then Noah got here to the studio and did it. There’s so many unbelievable artists on it.”
The trigger is private for the household, as Braison — who’s dad to son Bear, 3, with spouse Stella — says his grandfather Ron Cyrus was an enormous presence in his life earlier than he died of most cancers.
“He was a superb man, the kindest particular person to individuals and animals. Me and all my siblings have been so near him,” he says.
Now that he has a platform as a singer-songwriter and producer, Braison says it’s extra essential than ever that he use his fame to shine a light-weight on essential points.
“I would like extra individuals to say, hey, we’ve all been touched by this tragedy ultimately and we are able to come collectively and share in that grief and in that hope that issues can get higher. If all of us collectively give attention to this, we are able to discover solutions in order that hopefully we get to some extent sooner or later the place we don’t all have a narrative about this,” he says. “That’s, going ahead, going to be far more essential to me – advocating and elevating consciousness and bringing motion by way of what we are able to do,” he says. “As a result of I believe lots of people really feel like, ‘What can I do?’”
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Along with the charity single, Braison is staying lots busy with music of his personal. In March, Noah launched a tune he co-wrote referred to as “Don’t Put It All on Me,” a duet with Fleet Foxes that Braison says he wrote particularly for her round three years in the past.
“I got down to write this about and for Noah at a time in her life the place a variety of issues have been altering,” he says. “There’s a way of, everytime you’re 22 and also you’re by yourself and your life is altering and relationships are altering, it’s type of about that and my expertise being a 22-year-old understanding that, after which explaining that in that strategy to her by way of that. It was actually cool.”
Braison — who says he’ll launch extra solo music ultimately, “when the time is true” — can be gearing up for the discharge of Billy Ray’s new album, which he produced.
“It’s most likely one among my favourite issues I’ve labored on in my profession so far. I’m very pleased with it,” he says. “He put his blood, sweat and tears into it, too, and now at this level, I wish to simply give it to him and let him inform the story in his personal method.”
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Expertise clearly runs within the Cyrus household, as Grammy-winning sister Miley, 32, readies the discharge of her new visible album One thing Lovely, which is about to debut Could 30.
“It’s actually insane. I say this on a regular basis, however she is surely the toughest working human being that I do know that works in music,” he says. “She’s at all times been this manner, however it will get to some extent the place, once I assume she did the best factor she’s finished, she does one thing cooler. I believe she’s an individual who’s at all times attempting to outdo the very last thing she did. She is such a fighter.”
Total, although, the star is most centered on doing good.
“I believe that shining a light-weight on issues which can be essential to me goes to be a giant a part of what I attempt to do going ahead,” he says. “[I want] to make music about issues that matter.”
