{"id":2255401,"date":"2026-01-28T22:56:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2255401"},"modified":"2026-01-28T22:56:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T22:56:27","slug":"lisa-marie-presley-birthday-vigil-planned-outside-graceland-in-memphis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/lisa-marie-presley-birthday-vigil-planned-outside-graceland-in-memphis\/","title":{"rendered":"Lisa Marie Presley birthday vigil planned outside Graceland in Memphis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<div id=\"videoWrap\" class=\"spacer-large videoWrap\" style=\"position:relative\"><media-video video-id=\"75653072007\" title=\"Riley Keough talks about carrying on Elvis Presley's legacy\" poster=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2024\/10\/13\/PMCA\/75652898007-241012-riley-keough-12.JPG?crop=3999,2250,x0,y208\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\" placement=\"snow-video-story-priority\"><\/p>\n<div id=\"uwVideoPlaceholder\" slot=\"placeholder\" style=\"z-index:19;width:100%;padding-bottom:56.25%;position:relative\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"vidplaybtn\" style=\"display:-moz-box;display:-ms-flexbox;display:-webkit-flex;display:flex;background-color:rgba(0,0,0,.4);border:2px solid #fff;border-radius:80px;cursor:pointer;height:80px;width:80px;position:absolute;top:50%;left:50%;transform:translate(-50%,-50%);z-index:10\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"vidplayicon\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/appservices\/universal-web\/universal\/icons\/icon-play-alt-white.svg\" alt=\"play\" style=\"height:40px;margin:auto 18px auto 27px;width:40px\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div slot=\"videoDetails\" id=\"videoDetails\" class=\"videoDetails\" style=\"padding-top:8px;padding-bottom:8px\">\n<div id=\"videoDetailsContainer\" class=\"videoDetailsContainer\" hidden=\"\">\n<p>Riley Keough talks about carrying on Elvis Presley&#8217;s legacy<\/p>\n<p>Riley Keough, actress and daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, speaks about how she and her family carry on her grandfather Elvis Presley&#8217;s legacy.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/media-video><\/div>\n<p>Elvis Presley has millions of admirers around the world, but Jacob Jeffery of Little Rock prefers a different member of the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2025\/08\/08\/living-relatives-elvis-presley\/85411059007\/\">Presley family<\/a>.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/>\n<p>Since childhood, he has devoted much of himself \u2014 his thoughts, his enthusiasms, his internet activism, even some of his skin \u2014 to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2025\/01\/31\/lisa-marie-presley-birthday-elvis-daughter\/78068296007\/\">Elvis&#8217; daughter, Lisa Marie Presley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery, 28, has a tattoo of Lisa Marie&#8217;s autograph on his chest. He grieves over <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2023\/01\/22\/lisa-marie-presley-memorial-service-graceland-memphis-sarah-ferguson-jerry-schilling\/69820652007\/\">her 2023 death<\/a> and bemoans the sorrows he believes hastened it, including the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2025\/08\/15\/how-elvis-presley-died\/85410862007\/\">death of her father<\/a>, in 1977, and the suicide of her 27-year-old son, Benjamin Keough, in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Said Jeffery: &#8220;They say it was a small bowel obstruction, but to me I think she died of a broken heart.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"88379604007\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p>At 7 p.m. Feb. 1, Jeffery will be in Memphis, on a sidewalk outside Graceland, to host what might be considered a modest complement to the fascinating five-decade ritual that is Memphis&#8217; most celebrated annual event.<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>As a social media invitation posted by Jeffery states: &#8220;The Lisa Marie Presley Fan Club is honored to host the Second Annual Birthday Vigil in celebration of Lisa Marie\u2019s life, legacy, and light.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><cta-atoms-container-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/cta\" class=\"spacer-large\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The first Lisa Marie Birthday Vigil last year attracted &#8220;about four people,&#8221; Jeffery said, &#8220;but we had a lot tune in online.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s not discouraged. After all, the original Graceland &#8220;Candlelight Vigil,&#8221; <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2024\/08\/09\/when-is-elvis-week-at-graceland\/74648084007\/\">first organized in 1978<\/a>, also began as a small fan event, to mark the anniversary of Elvis Presley&#8217;s death on Aug. 16, 1977. Now, it is an Elvis Presley Enterprises-embraced tourist spectacle that every year attracts thousands of faithful fans and curious onlookers to the King of Rock &#8216;n&#8217; Roll&#8217;s mansion.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"600\" outstream=\"\" momentum=\"\"\/><partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">LISA MARIE PRESLEY&#8217;S MEMPHIS MOMENTS: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2023\/01\/13\/lisa-marie-presley-graceland-memphis-elvis-priscilla-michael-jackson-nicolas-cage\/69806284007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Jackson, a concert debut and more<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Also, Jeffery pointed out, early February is hardly peak Graceland tourism season. If attendance was his priority, he could move the vigil to the anniversary of Lisa Marie&#8217;s death (Jan. 12), which is close to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/people\/elvis-presley\/2026\/01\/08\/elvis-presley-birthday-graceland-memphis-tn\/87952403007\/\">Elvis&#8217; birthday (Jan. 8)<\/a>, which brings hundreds of fans to Memphis.<\/p>\n<p>Explained Jeffery: &#8220;We do it on her birthday, because we don&#8217;t want focus on the loss. Yes, we know she&#8217;s gone, but we want to focus on her time on Earth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">&#8220;I hope you&#8217;re runnin&#8217; free&#8230;&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385481007-vigil.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385481007-vigil.jpg?crop=726,544,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385481007-vigil.jpg?crop=408,544,x0,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385481007-vigil.jpg?crop=799,450,x0,y0 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Provided by Jacob Jeffery\" caption=\"Jacob Jeffery at Lisa Marie Presley's gravesite at Graceland in Memphis.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Unaffiliated with any Presley estate or commercial enterprise, the Lisa Marie vigil &#8220;is a way to honor what she was versus what the world saw,\u201d Jeffery said. \u201cWe have the human versus the celebrity. We have the daughter of Elvis, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2024\/10\/11\/lisa-marie-presley-albums-and-music\/75409694007\/\">we have the musician,<\/a> we have the humanitarian.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As one of Jeffery&#8217;s social media posts states: &#8220;Bring a candle, a flower, a photo, or simply your heart. Let\u2019s make sure Lisa knows she is not forgotten. Your presence matters. Help us show the world that her story lives on.&#8221;<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.leighhetheringtonmusic.com\/\">Leigh Hetherington<\/a> of Franklin, Tennessee, will bring a song. The country\/Americana artist will be at the vigil, and then she&#8217;ll be at B.B. King&#8217;s Blues Club on Beale, as a guest artist. At 9 p.m. Feb. 1 she&#8217;ll perform her original song, &#8220;<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xtjMVc53CHA&amp;list=RDxtjMVc53CHA&amp;start_radio=1\">Lisa Marie<\/a>,&#8221; which she recorded in 2025. <em>&#8220;I hope you&#8217;re runnin&#8217; free,&#8221;<\/em> she croons, on the chorus. <em>&#8220;A graceful wind blowing through Tennessee\/ Lisa Marie&#8230;&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;analogy of a wild horse,&#8221; Hetherington said, is a reflection of Lisa Marie&#8217;s love of horses, which began in childhood, when father and daughter would ride together at the Graceland stables.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I heard of her passing, I felt a kindred connection to her, the struggles she was going through as a mother,\u201d said Hetherington, the single mother of a high-school senior. &#8220;She was scrutinized by the press her whole life, and she deserved to have the human side of her life told, and I felt a tribute song was a way to do that.\u201d<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p class=\"related-link\"><span class=\"exclude-from-newsgate\"><strong style=\"margin-right:3px\">FROM THE ARCHIVES: <\/strong><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2018\/08\/11\/elvis-week-lisa-marie-presley-where-no-one-walks-alone-gospel-album-release\/937264002\/\" rel=\"noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Marie Presley talks candidly about personal struggles during Elvis Week event at Graceland<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>When Lisa Marie (called simply &#8220;Lisa&#8221; by her friends and fans) died in 2023 less than three weeks before what would have been her 55th birthday, Jeffery \u2014 who works in hospitality and customer service \u2014 did not have time to organize a Graceland birthday tribute.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, he said, \u201cI got on TikTok and made a cake that was yellow and blue, and played \u2018Where No One Stands Alone,\u2019\u201d an Elvis gospel recording made into a duet with Lisa Marie in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The cake was yellow and blue because \u201c\u2018Yellow to Blue\u2019 is a song from her \u2018Now What\u2019 album that you can\u2019t find unless you have the Japanese import version. It\u2019s a power ballad about how she was struggling but she overcame it.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"presto-h2 wp-block-heading\">&#8216;She paved her own way&#8217;<\/h2>\n<p>Jeffery said he discovered Lisa Marie \u201cby sheer accident\u201d one day when he was \u201c7 or 8,\u201d watching TV with his grandmother in Comanche County, Oklahoma, where he was raised.<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>\u201cI saw her music video for \u2018Dirty Laundry\u2019 when I turned over to MTV right after watching \u2018Desperate Housewives,\u2019\u201d he said. Somehow, he was captivated by the sulky, smoldering singer with the hooded eyes and insouciantly curled lip.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy grandma said, \u2018I don\u2019t know if I like the Presleys, but if I\u2019m not mistaken, that\u2019s Elvis\u2019 daughter.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery already knew about Elvis; he was a fan, but not a super-fan. \u201cMy aunts on one side, they\u2019re all obsessed with Elvis. And on my grandma\u2019s side, they\u2019re all obsessed with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/music\/2026\/01\/20\/grammy-museum-mississippi-exhibits-hours\/88168149007\/\">Jerry Lee Lewis<\/a>. So I would have go to Jerry Lee\u2019s ranch one year&#8221; \u2014 like Graceland, the singer\u2019s ranch-style home in Nesbit, Mississippi, is a tourist attraction \u2014 &#8220;and then go to Elvis\u2019 house the next.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<partner-inline util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" class=\"spacer-large\" placement=\"native-article_link\" sizes=\"[[300, 250], [3, 3]]\" min-height=\"250\" fluid=\"\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>Jeffery&#8217;s Lisa Marie love-at-first-sight was so intense his very indulgent grandmother went out and bought her grandson four copies of \u201cNow What,\u201d Lisa Marie\u2019s 2005 second album on Capitol Records, which contained her cover of Don Henley\u2019s \u201cDirty Laundry.&#8221; (The song critiques the media hunger for celebrity gossip, a subject certainly familiar to Lisa Marie, given her family history and her marriages to <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.commercialappeal.com\/story\/entertainment\/2024\/10\/10\/lisa-marie-presley-husbands\/75410303007\/\">Michael Jackson and Nicolas Cage<\/a>).<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/><media-image image-set=\"https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385482007-lmp-fan.jpg bestCrop, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385482007-lmp-fan.jpg?crop=1919,1439,x0,y0 4:3, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385482007-lmp-fan.jpg?crop=1080,1439,x0,y0 3:4, https:\/\/www.gannett-cdn.com\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/01\/27\/PMCA\/88385482007-lmp-fan.jpg?crop=1919,1081,x0,y179 16:9\" image-alt=\"\" credit=\"Provided by Jacob Jeffery\" caption=\"Lisa Marie Presley Fan Club President Jacob Jeffery at home, with some of his Lisa Marie memorabilia.\" orientation=\"horizontal\" class=\"spacer-large\" util-module-path=\"elements\/media\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Grandma also gave her grandson four copies of Lisa Marie\u2019s first album, \u201cTo Whom It May Concern,\u201d and one copy of \u201cSounds of the Season &#8211; The NBC Holiday Collection,\u201d an anthology album that featured Lisa Marie\u2019s rendition of \u201cSilent Night,\u201d along with Christmas covers by such artists as Norah Jones and Liz Phair.<\/p>\n<p>Why multiple copies? \u201cI guess my grandma recognized the importance of how much Lisa resonated with me, because she wanted me to still have a copy in case I lost one. You know how children are, they lose things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As the years passed, Jeffery never lost his devotion to Lisa Marie, even when she stopped making records and slipped outside of public view. He collected memorabilia, founded the <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/lisamariepresleyfanclub.com\/\">Lisa Marie Presley Fan Club<\/a> in 2021, and launched &#8220;The Memphis Princess Podcast,&#8221; devoted to Lisa Marie.<\/p>\n<p>For Jeffery, Lisa Marie embodied \u201cthe never-ending truth to be who you are, to always fight, to stay honest and true, and believe in yourself,&#8221; he said. &#8220;And quite frankly, she didn\u2019t give a damn. She paved her own way.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<partner-banner util-module-path=\"elements\/partner\" fluid=\"\" bottom=\"\" lazy=\"\" class=\"spacer-large\" min-height=\"390\" outstream=\"\"\/>\n<p>Those qualities explain why Lisa Marie Presley has &#8220;a large gay fan base,&#8221; he said. Nevertheless, his husband, Bryan \u2014 a registered nurse Jeffery met through Facebook \u2014 prefers a different Presley, as is apparent to any visitor to their home.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy husband\u2019s room is all Elvis,\u201d Jeffery said. \u201cMy room, you open it up, it\u2019s all Lisa Marie.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><media-gallery-promo asset-id=\"11012920002\" class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-large\"\/><lit-timestamp class=\"column ten-column no-gutter spacer-small\" slot=\"timestamp\" publishdate=\"2026-01-28 11:02:41.686660338 +0000 UTC\" updatedate=\"2026-01-28 11:02:41.686660338 +0000 UTC\"\/><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.commercialappeal.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riley Keough talks about carrying on Elvis Presley&#8217;s legacy Riley Keough, actress and daughter of Lisa Marie Presley, speaks about how she and her family carry on her grandfather Elvis Presley&#8217;s legacy. 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