Over the weekend Justin Timberlake made an 8-year-old’s birthday one to remember.
At his packed show at SAP Center stadium in San Jose, California, Timberlake paused the show to lead the audience of 25,000 people in singing “Happy Birthday” to Julian Delan, who is autistic. Delan’s parents took him to the show as a birthday present and a group of people sitting in front of the family managed to get the singer’s attention to inform him of the young boy’s birthday.
Delan’s mother wrote about the event in a post on The Manifest Station:
“Before we knew what was happening, the group in front of us that had turned out to be so incredibly kind all night to our birthday boy, and these gorgeous girls who I was convinced would be totally annoyed by Julian, had captured Justin’s attention. And then it happened. Justin Timberlake was singing Happy Birthday. They all were. The awesome grandmother of three sitting in front of us. The model-esque girls sitting to our right. The people sitting to our left that offered us the video that they captured of the whole thing. They were all singing. All 25,000 of them. And I swear the light in his eyes when this world of people began to sing was so bright it must have been what got my eyes so unexpectedly teary.”
Delan’s father posted a video of the touching moment to YouTube:
