Alicia Keys and Roc Nation assist the 12-year-old save the varsity's performing arts program

Alicia Keys and Roc Nation got here to assistance from a seventh grader elevating cash for a New York college's performing arts program… and now she's quite a bit nearer to doing so.

12 years previous Tennyson Shooter received an enormous increase from Alicia and co. to assist a GoFundMe she began in an effort to maintain the Skilled Performing Arts Faculty's core program alive… amid price range cuts that threaten to shut it for good.

The boy had a lofty objective of $102,000 – which might assist maintain the Performing Arts Program open – if just for some time. Alicia, who attended the varsity, caught wind of the fundraiser together with the rapper's leisure firm and determined to intervene… elevating a whopping $60,000 for her trigger.

Alicia and Roc Nation's contribution provides to the cash that they had already raised… about $50,000.

Alicia and Roc Nation aren't stopping there, as they’ve additionally pledged to boost cash for this system yearly till town can fund it itself. Jeremy Allen White — one other alumni — additionally donated to the trigger, posting the GFM hyperlink on his IG.

Tennyson couldn't be extra grateful for the movie star assist, particularly from such a notable alum as Alicia. Apparently Tennyson's classmates couldn't imagine it when she revealed that Alicia would step in to save lots of their performing arts program.

She added… “We nonetheless speak about her legacy on daily basis.”