Eras Tour dancer Kam Saunders is toasting his “boss girl” Taylor Swift on her thirty sixth birthday.
“To my woman… my boss girl! It’s been three years now that we’ve gotten to have this second,” Saunders, 33, wrote by way of Instagram on Saturday, December 13, sharing rehearsal footage from The Eras Tour of the dancer and the pop star. “And annually my love for you grows deeper and deeper. You might be such an astounding human being!!”
He continued, “I’m honored to be in your orbit. The laughs. The love. The affirming. The care. The generosity. I simply — thanks! Right here’s to a lifetime of extra of those moments collectively. Blissful Birthday, beautiful! 🤍.”
Swift, now 36, conceptualized Eras two years earlier than opening night time in March 2023 to rejoice her previous and current physique of labor. To again up her efficiency, she was adamant about casting a various crew of dancers.
“Areas like house that Taylor is curating on a night-to-night foundation, I want we had extra of that, even outdoors of entertaining,” Saunders stated in Swift’s Finish of an Period docuseries, which premiered on Disney+ on Friday, December 12. “It’s so necessary to be heard, to be understood. My background as a dancer, I had lots of dancers and professors who have been not-so-kind, principally round my dimension and if I wished to be knowledgeable dancer.”
Whereas Saunders graduated from College of Missouri-Kansas Metropolis with a level in dance, he believed he would find yourself educating dance with no regular stream of efficiency gigs in sight. At some point, Saunders acquired an e mail a couple of “confidential” closed dance audition alternative with a then-undisclosed artist and choreographer Mandy Moore.
“I didn’t have a greenback to my identify, and I referred to as my brother, like, ‘Hear, I don’t know what that is, however one thing is telling me I’ve to be on this room,’” Kam stated, referring to his NFL star brother, Khalen Saunders, who paid for a airplane ticket to get him the audition.
Kam Saunders, Taylor Swift and Jan Ravnik in ‘The Finish of an Period’ docuseries. Courtesy of Disney+
Kam subsequently blew Moore, 49, away along with his “magnetic” persona and technical dance abilities.
“He’s a terrific dancer, his smile is just like the thousand-watt smile,” Moore stated within the Disney+ doc. “He simply embodies what I felt the spirit of what these folks have to be.”
Swift felt the identical, revealing in a separate Finish of an Period interview that Kam “lights up” the stage and the “whole vibe as a tour.”
On the finish of every leg of the tour, Swift gave Kam and the remainder of the Eras forged and crew spectacular bonuses.
“Bonus day is so necessary, as a result of setting a precedent with The Eras Tour is de facto necessary to me, as a result of individuals who work on the highway, if the tour grosses extra, they get extra of a bonus, and these folks simply work so arduous and they’re the very best at what they do,” Swift defined within the documentary. “It’s enjoyable to write down the notes. It’s enjoyable to consider everyone’s lives that they’re gonna return to and the break day they’re gonna have and the youngsters they haven’t seen as a result of they’ve been away for months, and simply making that worthwhile for them is de facto — it looks like Christmas morning if you lastly get to say thanks.”
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Along with presenting a test, Swift offered every performer and crew member a handwritten poem sealed with a wax emblem.
“Dearest Kam, we’ve traveled the world like we got down to do,” Kam learn aloud Swift’s observe in Finish of an Period. “We’ve dazzled the crowds however we’ve missed household too. My full gratitude doesn’t come from a financial institution, however right here’s [redacted] {dollars} simply to say thanks. Love, Taylor.”
Swift’s Eras Tour wrapped in December 2024.
The primary two episodes of Finish of an Period are presently streaming on Disney+.
