Fantasia Shares Sweet Birthday Surprise From 'The Color Purple' Cast and Le'Andria Johnson

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Fantasia! The singer turned 38 on Thursday and shared the sweetest birthday surprise she received while filming on  with her fans on Instagram.

Explaining that she is still working on the Blitz Bazawule-directed film adaptation of the Broadway musical for eight more days, the 2004  winner shared that her castmates, family and friends made a «special birthday video» for her and invited her close friend, GRAMMY winner Le'Andria Johnson, to visit her on set.In the video posted to Fantasia's page, Johnson sneaks in behind a crew member and begins singing a soulful rendition of «Happy Birthday» for her close friend.

The birthday girl is instantly overwhelmed and tears up as Johnson sings to her before the two embrace warmly at the end of her song. «I am still on set filming ‘The Color Purple’ Musical Movie Adaptation for 8 more work days and this by far was the BEST & most needed birthday surprise, my sis @leandriaj,» Fantasia captioned the video post. «My cast mates, family, friends and the entire Color Purple cast made a special birthday video for me (Coming Soon).

This here gave me the push I needed to finish this journey as Celie once again.»She added, «I have put in blood, sweat and tears for this role with a lot of long nights, early mornings, sacrifices and pushing myself to new limits.