All-genre artist MŌRIAH has a new song called “Home to Me” featured in the upcoming biopic about Jimmy Stewart.
“Jimmy Stewart is — you say that name, and it’s just like, ‘Sign me up,’” the singer, who’s real name is Moriah Smallbone, told Movieguide® last week. “And then when I got to meet the director and have conversations with the producers and the music supervisors and the teams, I realized this is such a special group of people around this project, and everyone shares a sense of admiration for the life that he lived, as do I.”
The biopic, titled JIMMY, explores the “untold true story of America’s most-beloved actor and the iconic role that saved him,” following Stewart’s journey from an Academy Award®-winner to his military service in World War II to his return to Hollywood in IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE.
The weight of the task wasn’t lost on Smallbone. Her ballad is the end-credits song for the movie. It’s what ties it all together and is responsible for giving viewers a lasting emotion and memory.
“Because this is the song that people hear right when the movie ends,” she said. “So that last frame hits, and then you go to our clip, and this is the song that people are left with. And so it’s a couch. It’s a space that we try so that when people are done with the two hours that they’ve dedicated to just sit and take in a story, that they can process.”
In addition to an impressive career as a diverse artist, Smallbone is also an actress who has appeared in THE CHOSEN.
JIMMY will come out on the big screen on Nov. 6.
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Smallbone loved her involvement in the movie and admitted she was surprised that she was asked to participate.
“There are some stories that stay with you long after the screen goes dark,” she told Collider. “JIMMY is one of those stories. Getting to sing the movie’s original song, ‘Home to Me,’ as a tribute to Jimmy Stewart, has been such an honor.”
Last year, MŌRIAH made her Grand Ole Opry debut. Only a few Hispanic Americans like herself have gotten to walk on that stage.
“Adding my name to that list felt bigger than me,” she said. “Like our whole community stepped onto that stage together.”
Her husband is Joel Smallbone, who is a member of For KING + COUNTRY. They’ve been married for 13 years.
Joel said of his relationship with his wife, “Opposites attract but don’t necessarily make great life partners. There’s a beauty to having sort of varying opinions on things, but what we have found — and I’m only speaking from experience — is that actual commonality, like, the way you see God, the way you see life, the things you love and enjoy doing; those pieces are actually the glue that keeps you intact.”
In an I AM SECOND interview, Moriah said, “God being the center of a relationship, I think it all boils down to that.”
The couple stars together in an upcoming movie, A MUSIC CITY STORY, which is expected to release next year.
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