"Naya didn't just sing a song. She brought it to life. And with every note, she exposed the old sage living inside her young body." ... "Sometimes, I'd become so lost in Naya's performance, I'd forget I was in the scene with her," Colfer admits.

Can Naya Rivera sing?

Rivera, who died at age 33 following a drowning incident at a Los Angeles-area lake, started acting onscreen as a child; she spent her post-Glee years working as a memoirist, actor, and singer. (Her most recent credit was on the series Step Up: High Water.)

How did Naya Rivera learn to sing?

In 2009, Rivera was cast as Santana Lopez, a high school cheerleader, on Fox's musical comedy series Glee, about a high school glee club. She auditioned for the opportunity "to sing, dance and act all in the same show", and because she was a fan of co-creator Ryan Murphy's previous work on Nip/Tuck.