During the group performance in Toronto on Saturday, they dedicated their 2023 track “Little Bird” to the late daughter of a concertgoer.
Afan-posted videorevealed it wasJoe Jonaswho noticed the woman’s sign that read “Dedicate Little Bird for My Angel in Heaven” at the trio’s Rogers Centre concert. He brought the mother holding the sign closer to the stage.
“I got choked up as I read the sign,” he told the fan whose name was Magda.
“What is your little bird’s name?” Joe asked, to which Magda replied: “Valentina.”
Joe, 34, then gave the fan a hug and said, “This one’s for Valentina, OK? She’s here with us tonight, for sure.”
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In anotherfan-shared video,Kevin Jonascould be seen wiping tears away from his eyes while the brothers performed the track.
Back in May, Kevinshared a TikTokfeaturing his daughter, who is also named Valentina, telling him her favorite song from the new album is “Little Bird.”
“Oh, you think it’s about you? You sure about that?” he asks Valentina, 6, who nods and smiles.
“You have a tattoo,” she replies, touching her dad’s bird tattoos on his upper arm.
Kevin, 35, then asks her, “Who’s the little bird?” to which she replies “Me and Alena,” referring to her 9-year-old sister.
Nick Jonas, Kevin Jonas and Joe Jonas of the Jonas Brothers in Miami in May.Emma McIntyre/Getty Images
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In aninterview withVarietyin January,Nick Jonassaid “Little Bird” is “a song about parenthood that will affect people in different ways” and confirmed it was one of his favorites fromThe Album, which was released in May.
The Jonas Brothers are currently in the midst ofThe Tour, the band’s biggest run ever, which kicked off on Aug. 12 with two sold-out nights atYankee Stadium. The band is including material from five different albums in their shows, includingThe Albumand previous hits like 2019’sHappiness Beginsand 2008’sA Little Bit Longer.
“It’s our most ambitious show we’ve ever put on, in the sense that building out five albums in one night was a challenge that I don’t think we fully understood after we’d already put it on sale,” Nick, 30,told PEOPLE. “[But] it’s amazing to just go back and look at the road that brought us to this moment now.”
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