Imagine Dragons Rescued Two Abandoned Twin Girls and Donated $6.5 Million to Them After 20 Years Due to a Promise Made in Secret
Twenty years ago, on a bitterly cold evening in Las Vegas, members of the rock band Imagine Dragons were wrapping up a late-night rehearsal near the outskirts of town. As they packed up their equipment and prepared to head home, they noticed two small figures huddled near a dumpster behind the studio. Upon closer inspection, they discovered twin baby girls wrapped in thin blankets, clearly abandoned and suffering from the cold. Without hesitation, frontman Dan Reynolds scooped them up, and the band rushed them to a nearby hospital.
The incident remained largely hidden from the public. The band, already on the brink of fame, chose to keep the rescue quiet, fearing that media attention might complicate the children’s welfare. In private, they visited the twins frequently in foster care and ensured they were placed in a loving home through a trusted nonprofit. They also set up an anonymous trust fund to support their education and well-being. The promise they made that night—to look after the girls in any way they could—never faded from their hearts.
As Imagine Dragons soared to global stardom, releasing hit after hit and touring the world, the band members kept track of the twins’ progress through anonymous updates from the foster agency. Over time, they watched proudly from a distance as the girls, named Hope and Grace by their adoptive parents, grew into resilient, intelligent young women. Dan Reynolds, in particular, kept a private journal documenting their milestones, birthdays, and academic achievements, always wondering if the day would come when they’d learn the truth.
That day finally arrived two decades later when the band arranged a private meeting with the twins on their 20th birthday. The young women, now college students studying social work and medicine respectively, had no idea who their benefactors had been all those years. With emotions running high, Dan and the band shared the full story—how they found them, the promise they made, and how their lives had become inexplicably intertwined ever since.
As a culmination of that promise, Imagine Dragons donated $6.5 million to the twins to support their dreams, passions, and futures. The donation included full tuition coverage for graduate school, seed money to launch a nonprofit for abandoned children, and personal grants to help them start their adult lives. “You were a gift to us the moment we found you,” Dan told them through tears. “Now it’s your turn to give the world your light.”
The story, once private, eventually became public when the twins chose to share it as part of a fundraising campaign for their new nonprofit. Their journey from abandonment to empowerment inspired millions worldwide. Imagine Dragons, known for their music and humanitarian work, reminded the world that sometimes, the quietest promises become the loudest legacies—and that love, even from strangers, can last a lifetime.