Moby performs with former music therapy patient Denise

Multi-Platinum recording artist Moby performed with former Music Therapy patient Denise at the Institute for Music and Neurologic Function's Music Has Power Awards Benefit Concert in 2005.

After many months of silence, Denise is once again a woman with a song. "I have gained my spirit back; I've regained my life. I am working now, and I've reestablished myself. It's all thanks to the music program at Beth Abe," Denise said. "When I got there, I was so discouraged. The tube in my throat had ruined my voice, and the illnesses had ruined my life. But then I met Luci Butler, my music therapist."

"'Denise,' she told me, 'you're a beautiful girl and you say singing is your life. So let's hear you!'

In time, Denise ventured down in her wheelchair to the recording studio with Luci. Then, one day back in her room at Beth Abraham, she pulled herself up to stand for the first time. Immediately, she phoned Luci and asked the therapist to come up and see her. "Luci took one look at me,"
said Denise, "and with tears in her eyes said, 'Now that you're standing, I want you to sing.'"

And sing she has. Denise is now living back home and employed, working with deaf people. She also sings at weddings and Sweet Sixteens. She's sung at Knicks Games and at the U.N.

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[janicedeangelo]

stunningly beautiful!