Remembering Briley Rose Ward: Act By Sky Elements For Member’s Late Daughter Is Heartbreaking

The platform of America’s Got Talent got to see the most amazing talent in the form of Sky Elements whose recent performance dedicated to a member’s late infant daughter is jerking tears everywhere!

Key Takeaways

• Sky Elements is a group that specializes in drone acts for several events and is now in America’s Got Talent in 2024.
• The group member Preston Ward lost his daughter in 2020, and the most recent performance dedicated to her left everyone emotional.
• The judges are praising the performance, including several other performances prior to this.

Preston Ward From Sky Elements Lost His Daughter In 2020

Losing a child can never be easy for a parent. And, it is quite obvious that anyone who has gone through such a heartbreaking phase will never forget their loved one.

So is the case of Preston Ward, who lost his daughter, who was also just an infant, in 2020.

His daughter’s name was Briley Rose. While details about Rose are yet to be released, the nation is now aware of her influence on her father’s life.

The performance that Sky Elements dedicated to Ward’s daughter was heartbreaking as well as heartwarming.

Since her name is Rose, the act also included rose as a major part of the storytelling.

In the group’s narration, Briley is shown to have been a part of a rose field. A butterfly then replaced the rose.

Moreover, the act also shows how the heartbroken father gets to meet his daughter in the form of a butterfly.

In the end, the Phoenix, a mythical bird that depicts hope, immortality, resurrection, and life after death, replaces the butterfly.

That said, the conclusion goes from Ward’s late infant being a delicate part of nature to being immortal in his life, like a phoenix.

Reaction On The Emotional Performance

As soon as the performance was completed, the audience and even the judges were speechless. Everyone got emotional.

The performance was such that it had people crying before it even finished.

One thing that kept everyone hooked and emotional was the fact that the performance was dedicated to a deceased loved one among the performers.

The symbolism, as shown in the act, took everyone aback, in the best yet the most saddened possible way.

During the performance, the camera pans towards the audience, who are all seen wiping their tears while looking upwards in the sky, enjoying the show.

Everyone seems to have felt comforted at the depiction of death, yet felt the depth of attachment and willingness to show love to a lost infant.

In addition to this, everyone present also paid a standing ovation to the act and the performers.

Simon Cowell, who had also permitted the golden buzzer for Sky Elements in the audition round, could not quite come up with the right words, as he was immensely impacted.

Sofia Vergara admitted,

She added,

Besides this, Howie also referenced the show airing on 9/11, the date when many lives were lost two decades ago.

He described it as a great tribute to all the lives that America had lost.

Heidi Klum was all emotions. She said,

The grieving dad and the team members were also left emotional, given that everyone watching them was giving them praise and showing them that the act was more than just a mere performance.

A heartbroken fan wrote,

Another said,

The tribute was very impactful, to say the least.

In Case You Didn’t Know

• Sky Elements has been performing in events across 50 states in America.
• The group won a golden buzzer in the audition round of America’s Got Talent.
• There are 5 members of Sky Elements who have participated in AGT.