Jelly Roll pays touching tribute to the late Toby Keith at 2024 Stagecoach

Jelly Roll recently performed an emotional tribute to the late Toby Keith at the 2024 Stagecoach Festival in Indio, California.

On April 26, Jelly performed Tobias should have been a shepherd with T-Pain to honor the late country musician, who died in February at the age of 62.

Ahead of the event, Jelly and T-Pain released their version of should have been a shepherd On Amazon Music.

talking with DiversityJelly reveals she likes Toby’s songs should have been a shepherd, next thing on my list And i love this bar It inspired him to pursue country music for his next years as a rapper.

“He was an outsider. He was definitely Oklahoma. He did a lot of things that encouraged me and empowered me,” she told the outlet.

Jelly said, “He was very individualistic and he made his own way and he did it his own way, from pillar to post. He never knew it, but he was a mentor to me, I just looked up to him from afar. Kept watching.”

“Toby’s son saw me at CMT and took me aside and said, ‘Hey man, I just wanted to tell you that I saw a video of you covering this song, and I think it’s the best One of the versions is and I think you respect my father.’ And it means a lot to me,” recalled save me singer.

Explaining why he chose T-Pain in Stagecoach, Jelly noted, “T-Pain was telling me the story of how he made it big in the country, at the CMT Awards, he was performing with Toby [in 2009],

“And he was just talking about how amazing Toby was as a human being and how Toby made him feel comfortable and was serenading him before they went out,” commented. wild ones singer.

Meanwhile, Jelly revealed that he and T-Pain have decided to donate their proceeds from the cover to the Toby Keith Foundation.

Jelly said, “I just felt like we were doing it for Toby and the good thing was I called T-Pain and he didn’t hesitate.”