By Leena Tailor It started as a gesture for fans stuck in quarantine, but in just six weeks, Gary Barlow’s “Crooner Sessions” have snowballed into a hotly-anticipated Instagram event attracting everyone from fellow boy banders like JC Chasez and Niall Horan, to Jessie J, Queen rocker Brian May and British icon Sir Cliff Richard.
The Take That singer dreamed up the duet series after observing the coronavirus pandemic’s toll on fans. “I thought, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if once a week, I do them a little duet,’” Barlow tells Variety, while making tea at his countryside retreat in the U.K. “We can’t go on stages or into theaters.
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