Lira's Disney song nominated for an Oscar
All the nominations for the Academy Awards for 2017 were announced on Tuesday night, 24 January, and one of the most notable nominations for us was that of Lira's song for Disney's newest animated adventure movie - Moana.
The song, titled How Far I'll Go which Lira sings on has been nominated for an Oscar.
This will be the first Oscar nomination that Lira will be associated with, the song and lyrics were originally written by American playwright and composer Lin-Manuel Miranda.
In a recent interview, Lira mentioned how challenging it was to do the song extremely enjoyed the experience.
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"It's a typically epic Disney song that will play on the end credits, it was challenging making this song as it's also not in my comfort zone, but I think I killed it [Laughs]. "
She also added that doing more songs for films will be one of her main career paths for the future.
"In terms of me entering and getting more into films, it's really just me expanding my career, just getting into new spaces.
After releasing my DVD and producing my new TV show which is being aired in 52 countries around Africa, my team and I feel like we're getting stronger at content production. So I'd love to do more and more work around the film space and this is just another awesome opportunity that I could not have passed on." Said Lira.
Congratulations Lira what a well-deserved achievement.