In her acceptance speech at the Oscars, Billie Eilish mentioned choir teacher
Billie Eilish and the brother, Finneasreceived the Oscar for Best Original Song, for “What Was I Made For?”, by Barbielast Sunday, 10. In the thank you speech, Billie he made a point of mentioning his choir teacher. The mention reached the ears of Mandy Brighamwho admitted that he was not watching the ceremony at the time it was broadcast.
“I was at the tennis games at the Indian Wells Open. And then I started receiving text messages. More text messages than I’ve ever received in my life,” said the teacher, now retired, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter (via People).
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“Mrs. BrighamThank you for believing in me,” he said. Billie during the Oscar. The teacher taught Eilish at the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus starting in 2010, when the singer was just 8 years old.
When I heard about the mention, Brigham stated that she was “astonished”. “I never expected something like this to happen to me,” she said. “This is the greatest honor for a teacher.”, she added.
Source: Rollingstone
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