During a World Tour stop at Foxborough, Mass.'s Gilette Stadium, Luke Combs upped the ante on a Make-a-Wish dream granted for an 8-year-old cancer survivor named Cooper Massengill.
Massengill took part in Combs' pre-show meet-and-greet, as planned. While talking to Massengill, Combs invited his young fan to join him onstage for a duet.
"Cooper's wish was to meet Luke Combs. He had no idea that he was going to go on stage. His secret wish, within his wish, was to sing 'Fast Car' with him. And Luke Combs and his team made a lifetime memory for him," Sean Holleran, the CEO of Make-A-Wish Massachusetts and Rhode Island, told CBS News.
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In a t-shirt that telegraphed his desire to meet Combs, Massengill joined his honky tonk hero onstage for a duet of the 1988 Tracy Chapman hit "Fast Car."
Fan footage captures the crowd chanting the youngster's first name before helping him sing one of the hits of the summer with Combs.
"When I was walking up, everyone was shouting my name. It felt great," Massengill told CBS News.
CBS News added that Massengill, a Georgia native, was diagnosed with leukemia at age 3.
"It was great to see him get the wish he wanted after going through everything," Travis Massengill, Cooper's father, told the outlet.
"I was just amazed they could organize all that for him," Melissa Massengill, Cooper's mother, said.
Melissa added that Combs and the Make-a-Wish organization "really came through for [Cooper] and made his wish come through."
Combs' version of "Fast Car" recently became his 16th consecutive No. 1 country single. Its success made Chapman the first Black woman to solo write a No. 1 country hit. It's currently on pace to become the first Combs song to top the all-genre Billboard Hot 100.
