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Interview: Noah Cyrus on 'NC-17,' Katy Perry noah-cyrus-talks-katy-perry-tour-ben-howard-working-dad

Noah Cyrus Talks Katy Perry Tour, Ben Howard, Working With Dad

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The 17-year old singer proves she’s more than just Miley’s younger sister
Brian Haack
GRAMMYs
Sep 14, 2017 - 10:13 am

Pop singer/songwriter and actress Noah Cyrus has a lot to be proud of.

Noah Cyrus: Writing 'Better Me' With Her Father

In the 10 months since her debut single "Make Me (Cry)," featuring Labrinth, was released, she's garnered more than 123 million Spotify streams, the track has been certified platinum by the RIAA and, in less than a week, the 17-year-old will serve as the opening act on 21 dates of Katy Perry's 2017 Witness Tour.

Cyrus' forthcoming debut album, NC-17, is hotly anticipated, and she's even teased that her father, Billy Ray, a country singer/songwriter best known for his hit "Achy Breaky Heart," is a surprise co-writer on one of the album's tracks.

With her career having kick-started at such a frenetic pace, it's safe to say Cyrus has already encountered and had to overcome some big hurdles in the past year: namely dealing with constant questions about her older, and extremely successful older sister, Miley Cyrus.

"Getting over the questions about Miley, and pushing pride aside," she admits. "Not that I don't want to talk about her, because I love her! But that was kinda the time where I had to accept it, and not let it bother me, because that's what comes with it."

For my part, I kept questions about Miley to a minimum and light-hearted — I wanted to know which number she thought was higher: the number of streams she'd gotten to date on her debut single, or the number of questions interviewers have asked her about Miley.

"(Laughing) I get asked a lot of questions … but not, like, every single day, so it's definitely the streams on 'Make Me (Cry).'"

However, at first, Cyrus felt a sense of nervousness and vulnerability prior to sharing her music with the world for the first time, especially given the fast success of the single. But this also became "the best part."

"I was so nervous, but it was probably the best time I've has so far," says Cyrus. "['Make Me (Cry)'] came out, and I went right on to Jimmy Fallon. And then to 'Ellen,' and then to James Corden, and [the] iHeart Awards. It was all the things I wasn't used to, and those were all in the first couple weeks. That was definitely the best part for me."

What helped prepare Cyrus for sharing her most personal music in a big way was her collaboration with multitalented artist and producer Labrinth, with whom she was able to give her own sound a test run in a place she felt comfortable before heading to these huge, public stages.

"I played him all this music that I was uncomfortable playing [for] people, because I didn't know what they'd think of it," she reveals. "I was only really comfortable with him. He really accepted it, and made me feel so much more confident about it. It was instant when we clicked."

While performing your music live in front of massive TV and live audiences may be nerve-wracking at first, given Cyrus was a competitive equestrian rider when she was younger, the pre-show jim-jams she may have felt before a horse show have prepared her for high-pressure situations.

"Oh my God, nothing compares to the pre-horse show jitters!" she gushes. "It's like going on 'American Idol' or 'The Voice' all the time, because you're just going and getting judged for your entire show. [The judges] are there to tell you, 'You did a bad job (laughing).'"

Luckily, it sounds like Cyrus is well prepared for the next major leg of her career, her upcoming tour dates with Perry, along with other openers Purity Ring and Carly Rae Jepsen. Cyrus will be joining the Witness tour for the North American leg from Sept. 19 through Nov. 1, including cities such as Washington, D.C., Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, Boston, and New York.  

"I'm so excited, I've loved Katy since I was super little," she exclaims. "I've always looked up to her and she's such a sweetheart. I feel like I'm not going on the road with a complete stranger, so I'm not going to be quite so nervous and scared."

Being around celebrities such as Perry is likely second nature to Cyrus, but there is one artist who might stop her in her tracks: Lady Gaga. Cyrus credited her favorite track as the GRAMMY winner's piano ballad "Speechless," calling it "an artist's song."

"It's very true to her, and very honest," she adds. 

She counts Ben Howard as another of her inspirations. In Howard's case, however, Cyrus found herself unable to narrow down a single favorite song, instead picking the entirety of the British crooner's 2014 album, I Forget Where We Were.

While Cyrus admitted that she rarely gets starstruck, she said Howard is most likely the one person who would leave her speechless upon meeting.

"I don't think I would say anything. I think I would just stare and be like, 'Oh my goodness, the words I've been listening to actually come out of your mouth!'" she says. "Or I would just be like, ' I love you so much, thank for starting all of this for me,' because really, I don't know if I ever would have gone into a session if I hadn't fallen in love with music, and I really fell in love with his music first."

Cyrus' NC-17 is slated for release this fall, though no release date is set as of this writing. In the meantime, you can catch her on tour with Perry starting Sept. 19.

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Meet The First-Time GRAMMY Nominee: Noah Cyrus On Continuing Her Family Legacy & Why She's Happier Than Ever

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Singer/songwriter Noah Cyrus—a scion of a musical family that includes Billy Ray and Miley—details the road to her nomination for Best New Artist at the 2021 GRAMMY Awards show, which includes Ben Howard, John Mayer and a well of emotional honesty
Taylor Weatherby
GRAMMYs
Mar 8, 2021 - 10:27 am

As the youngest member of the multitalented Cyrus family, Noah Cyrus has been around music her entire life. And now, she can say she's the youngest Cyrus to earn a GRAMMY nomination.

Cyrus, who turned 21 in January, is up for Best New Artist—an honor she shares with her father, Billy Ray, who was nominated in 1993, seven years before Noah was born. Although she looked up to her dad, Cyrus wasn't sure if she wanted the same future for herself, particularly after watching her older sister, Miley, grow up in the spotlight. But six years after 15-year-old Noah decided to give it a shot, affirmations like this GRAMMY nomination tell her that she was meant to be a musician as well.

"It's so validating to know that people are listening to the music—they're listening to me," Cyrus tells GRAMMY.com. "It means the absolute world to me that they appreciate the music. There are no words to explain my gratitude."

Meet The First-Time GRAMMY Nominee: Noah Cyrus

Cyrus' humility has helped her navigate her musical journey and stay vulnerable in both her music and the public eye. She's masterfully blended candidness and transparency with exquisite acoustic-driven melodies, most famously displayed on her song, "July." Now, she’s earned the GRAMMY nomination she's been dreaming about for years.

Noah Cyrus spoke to GRAMMY.com about what it means to share the Best New Artist nomination milestone with her dad, what inspired her to pursue music herself and John Mayer's words of wisdom that stuck with her.

Congrats on being GRAMMY-nominated! According to your Instagram post from the moment you found out, it was pretty emotional.

My mom told my best friend to film me, and I was trying to hide from her because I am the world's worst crier. My boyfriend sent me a zoomed-in screenshot of my face when I was crying because it's insane. I swear if you were to put it up to the Kim Kardashian meme of her crying, it's very, very, very similar.

You manifested your mom's prediction with the nomination, right?

Yeah. At the beginning of 2020, she said, "For the new year, I got an intentions book, and I wrote that you'd get nominated for your very first GRAMMY." 

It also felt like this amazing blessing from my grandma. We had recently lost her, and I would've given anything for her to see that. We were really close, so it was bittersweet. And I just had my 21st birthday [in January]. 

There's been a lot of things recently that feel like, because she isn't able to be here, there are these blessings from her.

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Your dad also received a Best New Artist nomination in 1993. I would think that added another layer of meaningfulness to your nomination.

Absolutely. I've always been so intrigued by my dad and his musical history. I've always asked Dad about when he went to the GRAMMYs and what that was like, and I always said to Dad, "If I ever get nominated for a GRAMMY, you're gonna be my date."

Hearing about my dad's time at the GRAMMYs in '93, it felt like I was kind of reliving all the stories that I had heard. It just felt full circle for Dad to be sitting there however many years later with his daughter—that he didn't even know would exist at that time—celebrating a GRAMMY nomination.

I felt super emotional. My family always wants everyone else to win. We root for one another.

Obviously, music is very ingrained in your family, but what made you ultimately decide that music was the path you also wanted to take yourself?

When I was a kid, I was turned off from wanting to be in the public eye in any way. It's been the main source of a lot of my insecurities. I just wanted to be a normal kid. 

Around 14 or 15, I started writing songs and playing the piano. One night I wrote a best friend a song. She had told me that her life at home was hard and that she was struggling with self-harm and suicidal thoughts. I wrote her this song about how she's this angel on Earth and what a terrible world it would be without her. It was a strong message for such a young, young girl to write.

I also saw Ben Howard around the same time, and that live performance changed my life. I'd never understood how another person could influence somebody so much, but that's when I got it. Same with seeing the Arctic Monkeys. Alex Turner and Ben Howard are kind of my gurus for music. Those performances inspired me to want to achieve that greatness.

I thought about how I could impact others [by sharing] what I go through and what I've been through, having body dysmorphia since I was 12, dealing with anxiety and depression. [Plus], everything that I've gone through in relationships, the ups and downs and everything we go through in life, and even writing about just life itself.

My favorite song I've ever written is "The End of Everything."

Why is that?

It's a song that is kind of bigger than all of us. I feel like writing "July," "I Got So High I Saw Jesus" and "The End of Everything," I was at a point in my life that I've stayed at, where I'm able to write these songs that are on this different level because I'm on a different level with myself.

I've mentally gotten so much healthier and comfortable with who I am. That made me able to write all of these songs that I can identify myself with.

Read: Meet This Year's Best New Artist Nominees | 2021 GRAMMYs

What do you think has contributed to your progression?

Once I was able to open up to everybody that I needed to in my inner circle, I was able to talk about it publicly, which has helped a lot. I also had a major turning point within this quarantine. 

I've been forced to sit and work on myself. I'm not the type to say, "New year, new me." I don't get that whole thing because I'm kind of like, "Eh, same s--t, different day." [Laughs.]

But I've just hit such a milestone, personally, that this feels like a whole new chapter.

I feel like your fans that are into your sadder songs are thinking, "Oh no, she's happy now. Are we going to get sappy stuff?"

No, no, don't get too excited. The sad lyrics aren't going away. That's always who I am.

Though I'm growing personally, I still feel so much. Whenever I love, I love so hard. Whenever I hurt, I hurt so deep. Whenever I feel, it feels so strong. I've just leveled up mentally and feel so much stronger personally. I've really learned what to be grateful for, and to be present, and to live now. 

My favorite musical advice I've ever gotten is from John Mayer. We were at a mutual friend's birthday party, and he came up to me and said, "'July' is the kind of music that you want to create—music that is great now and great 20 years from now."

It's the songs that still make you feel good whenever you sing them over and over. You're going to feel brand new each time you sing that song. That inspired me to create more songs that I'm going to want to sing for the rest of my life. 

2020 was a very testing year, but it's also been inspiring and helped me create some of the best music I've created. 

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Miley Cyrus Joined By Sister Noah, Family To Sing "Achy Breaky Heart"

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The GRAMMY-nominated singer brings the whole family along for a "Carpool Karaoke" rendition of her father's GRAMMY-nominated hit
Brian Haack
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Aug 29, 2017 - 5:52 pm

Miley Cyrus and her sister Noah will join the entire rest of their highly musical family tonight for a special episode of Apple Music's "Carpool Karaoke."

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The Cyrus crew teased the episode today with a brief clip of the seven-member family packed into a car singing along to Billy Ray Cyrus' GRAMMY-nominated 1992 breakout hit, "Achy Breaky Heart."

The family members poked fun at the musical kitsch of '90s country-rock stylings and donned bandanas and fake mullets to get in the mood to belt out the classic song, with Miley and older brother Trace (of Metro Station) add matching sets of gold grills to the mix for a bit more contemporary affectation.

The Cyrus Family episode of "Carpool Karaoke" will become available this evening on Apple Music.

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The lineup has officially been announced for the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards — did your favorite artists make the cut?
Brian Haack
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Aug 8, 2017 - 5:06 pm

With none other than Katy Perry recently announced as the incoming host, the 2017 MTV Video Music Awards were already shaping up to be a can't-miss event. Now that the headlining performers have likewise been announced, it's finally time to start up the hype train in earnest.

The VMA stage at the historic Forum in Los Angeles will be graced by several GRAMMY winners this year, including Ed Sheeran, The Weeknd and Lorde.

Lorde Wins Best Pop Solo Performance

Additional performers announced include GRAMMY nominees Perry and Miley Cyrus, Thirty Seconds To Mars, Fifth Harmony, and Shawn Mendes. The awards show will be broadcast live on MTV on Aug. 27.

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Dolly Parton (L) and Linda Perry (R) perform at the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year event

Dolly Parton (L) and Linda Perry (R) perform at the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year event

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Katy Perry, Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, Leon Bridges, Yolanda Adams and more delivered heartfelt, rhinestone-encrusted covers of some of country queen Dolly Parton's greatest hits during the lively hour-long special
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Apr 7, 2021 - 4:26 pm

Today (April 7), Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute premieres on Netflix, giving viewers around the world a front-row seat to the star-studded 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year tribute concert honoring 10-time GRAMMY winner Dolly Parton. Miley Cyrus, Willie Nelson, Brandi Carlile, Katy Perry, Kacey Musgraves, Yolanda Adams and more delivered heartfelt, rhinestone-encrusted covers of some of the country queen's greatest hits during the hour-long special hosted by GRAMMY-winning Dolly superfans, Little Big Town.

The annual MusiCares Person Of The Year event, typically held days before the GRAMMY Awards, honors legends who have significantly contributed to the music community through music and philanthropy. The exclusive marquee event also raises funds for MusiCares to support music people in need. Parton was the first country star to be honored as the MusiCares Person of the Year.

While all 10 of the performances, as well as the many Dolly-inspired shimmery outfits, from the 2019 tribute concert are must-sees, here are five of the most jaw-dropping sets from the big night. Pop on your cowboy hat, fire up your Netflix and tune into Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute now.

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(L-R) Mark Ronson, Miley Cyrus and Shawn Mendes perform at the 2019 MusiCares Person Of The Year event | Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images

To kick things off in style, Miley and Shawn Mendes, with Mark Ronson on guitar, served up a lively duet of Dolly and Kenny Rogers' 1982 classic, "Islands in the Stream." Looking glam in a black sequin dress, Miley waved to Parton, who's the singer's godmother, sitting and smiling in the front while also looking fab in a black sequin dress herself!

Katy Perry & Kacey Musgraves Take You To The Rodeo

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Katy Perry (L) and Kacey Musgraves (R) at the 2019 MusiCares Person Of The Year concert | Photo: Lester Cohen/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

Perry and Musgraves delivered epic cowgirl-diva glam during their performance of Dolly's GRAMMY-winning 1977 hit, "Here You Come Again." Perry rocked an all-lavender satin look with a cowboy hat, flowing mesh cape, thigh-high stiletto boots and a corset fringe dress, while Musgraves slew in a sparkly, silver-flared pantsuit, topped off with big hair and big hoops.

Mavis Staples, Leon Bridges & Jon Batiste Take You To Church

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Mavis Staples, Leon Bridges, Jon Batiste perform at the 2019 MusiCares Person Of The Year concert | Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for The Recording Academy

Mavis Staples, Leon Bridges and Jon Batiste (on piano), with the help of a choir, raised the crowd up to heavenly heights with a lively, soulful, gospel-tinged version of "Not Enough." The show-stopping rendition of the 2012 track, which Parton and Queen Latifah originally sang for their movie Joyful Noise, was filled with clapping, stomping and grooving—there was plenty of love in our hearts after that!

We Will Always Love Yolanda Adams (& Dolly!)

Yolanda Adams performs at the 2019 MusiCares Person Of The Year event

Yolanda Adams performs at the 2019 MusiCares Person Of The Year event | Photo: VALERIE MACON/AFP via Getty Images

Adams, the "First Lady Of Gospel," delivered an epic, bone-chilling cover of "I Will Always Love You," one of Parton's most enduring classics. Adams looked glamorous in a floor-length red gown with floral lace bell sleeves as she hit those high notes, complemented by some sexy sax.

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Dolly Parton (L) and Linda Perry (R) perform at the 2019 MusiCares Person of the Year event

Dolly Parton (L) and Linda Perry (R) perform at the 2019e MusiCares Person of the Year event | Photo: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images

To close out the epic concert, the "Backwoods Barbie" herself took to the stage to share her sparkle, smile and voice with the audience. Joined by Linda Perry on guitar, Parton performed "Coat of Many Colors," which she called "the song that kind of got me here."

Well, we sure are glad you're here, Dolly!

Dolly Parton: A MusiCares Tribute is streaming now on Netflix.

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