Suni Lee's Olympic Floor Routine Music Maker — Viral Violinist Lindsey Stirling — Reveals How It All Happened (Exclusive)

Mar. 15, 2025

Suni Lee at the Paris Olympics; Lindsey Stirling on her Duality Tour.Photo:Ezra Shaw/Getty; Rick Kern/Getty

Ezra Shaw/Getty; Rick Kern/Getty

One fan declared that the 21-year-old gymnast — who was on her“redemption tour”after bouncing back from anincurable kidney diseasethat nearly ended her career — won the fictitious gold for“coolest floor routine music.”Other viewers said the music is“stuck in their heads”and sounded like a“soundtrack for an HBO fantasy series.”

That song? Viral violinistLindsey Stirling’s“Eye of the Untold Her.”

Now, Stirling, 37, is exclusively telling PEOPLE how Lee ended up choosing the song for her routine, which helped her wingoldin the team final andbronzein the individual all-around final.

“Back in January, I actually reached out to Suni via Instagram to see if she was looking for floor routine music,” Stirling says. “When she said she was, I shared a link to my unreleased album. Outside of my direct management team, she was the first person to hear my whole album. She wrote me back saying she was going to use ‘Eye of the Untold Her.’ ”

Stirling says it was “really cool” to seeKendall Jennershare Lee’s floor routine on her Instagram Stories with her song playing in the background.

“I watched Suni’s floor routine in the team all around from my tour bus,” says Stirling, who is traveling the U.S. onher Duality Tour. “My dancers and I stayed on the bus to cheer her on. Once she started performing I got super emotional. Tears were streaming down my face the whole time.”

Stirling chalks up her reaction to being a longtime gymnastics fan and knowing Lee’s comeback from being sidelined from her kidney disease.

“She is a warrior and she’s overcome so much to get back to the Olympics,” she says. “Suni truly embodies the message of what my song was written about and she performed it so magically.”

Suni Lee celebrates winning gold with her Team USA teammates at the Paris Olympics on July 30, 2024.Jamie Squire/Getty

Jamie Squire/Getty

After Team USA won gold, Stirling messaged Lee to congratulate her.

Now, Lee is planning to attend one of Stirling’s future concerts. “I am very excited to meet her,” the musician tells PEOPLE.

Lee previously used Stirling’s music at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.

“I was on tour at the time and I got off stage to 20 messages saying that my music was in the Olympics. It was a cool moment,” she recalls.

Coincidentally, Stirling is “good friends” with Sasha Farber, who was Lee’sDancing with the Starspartner forseason 30in 2021.

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Lindsey Stirling performs at her Duality Tour on July 24, 2024.Rick Kern/Getty

Rick Kern/Getty

Stirling’s “Eye of the Untold Her” has now been Shazam’d more than 111,000 times, partly due to Lee’s Olympic floor routine.

“It’s just crazy how life unfolds sometimes,” Stirling emphasizes.

“You work hard, and try all the things you know how to do and knock on all the doors you can and sometimes it feels like nothing is moving — but then boom!” she says. “Something happens completely out of your control and everything changes. [It’s] a moment I will never forget.”

source: people.com