Boyzone Plan Scholarship Fund In Stephen Gately’s Memory Stephen Gately |
Irish pop group Boyzone are planning to launch a scholarship fund to honour their late bandmate Stephen Gately.
The No Matter What hitmakers were left devastated when Gately died at his home in Majorca, Spain, in October (09) after suffering a build-up of fluid in his lungs.
But they're determined to pay tribute to their pal by launching a financial aid program for budding musicians in his memory.
He says, "We're definitely going to do something through music. We'd like to be able to help underprivileged children though music. Me and the boys are trying to put something together at the moment. It will more than likely be called the Stephen Gately Foundation.
"We're just working on that at the moment - maybe a scholarship to put children through music college. We definitely want to do something to continue his legacy and carry on his memory as best we can."