Lauren Alaina.Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty
Lauren Alaina’s kind of people are those who spring into action when faced with tragedy.
Alaina herself is one of them.
“My manager, Trisha, has a cousin who lives in Bowling Green and she was just reaching out, trying to get some help for her community and we learned about this family who had lost everything, and I mean everything,” Alaina recalls. “The whole house caved in on top of them, all of their stuff was gone. The mother actually passed away. The kids were very injured.”
Lauren Alaina in Operation Appreciation: Bowling Green.Circle Network
After Alaina learned about the scale of the loss in Bowling Green through this one family, she turned to her foundation and got to work.
“When we heard about them —I have a foundation called My Kinda People— and I pulled money out of the foundation and got them clothes and furniture and school supplies and everything that the kids would need. And Trisha and I actually drove it down there to them,” she shares.
“It was totally such a God thing, it felt like to me, because I would’ve done just about anything and would still for that community because of that family and because I met them and saw how much their lives changed. And they’re just one example. It was a real honor for me to be able to go back and be a part of the show. It was a beautiful night,” she says of performing at the benefit concert.
For Alaina, music has always provided solace in her life. She wrote her first song at 9 years old after her aunt was in a car accident.
“I sang it to her in the hospital. And so that developed my understanding of writing and music and what I could use it for. After a tragic event like that, it’s healing. So, to go there and provide part of a night of just music and love is a reminder that they’re not forgotten,” Alaina says of the experience.
Disasters happen all too often, and continuously offering Bowling Green support with both resources and music means a lot to the “Road Less Traveled” singer.
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“Things happen every single day that we hear about on the news, and I think it’s really important for communities like Bowling Green, to check back in with them and be like, ‘Hey, I know that you’re hearing about all this other stuff, but we do remember you. We do see you. We will still show up for you and love you and try to make a difference for you,'” Alaina explains.
“I’m just a vessel sharing it.”
Operation Appreciation: Bowling Green airs on Circle Network March 18 at 8:30 p.m. ET.
source: people.com
