Melody Gardot in concert

by Andrei SKY

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Melody Gardot in concert

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Andrei SKY

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Melody Gardot (born February 2, 1985) is a Grammy-nominated American singer, writer and musician in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, though she considers herself a "citizen of the world". Her music has been compared to that of Nina Simone.
While cycling in Philadelphia in November 2003 she was hit by a car whose driver had ignored a red traffic light. In the accident she suffered serious head and spinal injuries and her pelvis was broken in two places. Because of these severe injuries she was confined to her hospital bed for a year and had to remain lying on her back. As a further consequence of her injuries she had to re-learn simple tasks such as brushing her teeth and walking. The most noticeable effect of the neural injuries she suffered is that she was left hyper-sensitive to both light and sound, therefore requiring her to wear dark sunglasses at nearly all times to shield her eyes. The accident also resulted in both long and short term memory problems and difficulty with her sense of time. Gardot has described coping with this as like "climbing Mount Everest every day" as she often wakes with no memory of what she has to do that day. Initially prompted by an attending physician who believed music would help her brain injury drastically improve, Gardot began writing music after her accident and now often speaks and advocates in favour of using music for therapy.
In 2012, it was reported that she had given her name to a music-therapy program in New Jersey
If you haven't heard her before:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfeJQWPC9mI&list=PL1C76CED0821FDCCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUQek-qu0zI&index=4&list=PL1C76CED0821FDCCD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_qphknagXqA&index=1&list=PL1C76CED0821FDCCD

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February 2nd, 2015

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