Melody Gardot: Singing helped with brain injury recoveryRSS Feed

29 January 2010

Singer Melody Gardot has explained how performing helped her forget about the pain of her debilitating brain injury, it has been revealed.

In an interview with CBS Sunday Morning the double-platinum album artist, she explained how doctors had suggested that she use music as a way of repairing neural pathways that were damaged when she suffered her brain injury.

Gardot suffered her brain injury as a college student in Philadelphia, when a Jeep which had run a red light at an intersection hit her while she was on her bike.

She told interviewer Anthony Mason that when she performed "that was the only 30 minutes in my life that I did not feel pain for that moment".

However, she noted that she still has a long way to go, having collapsed at the sound of her mother dropping a plate on one occasion. Gardot is also particularly sensitive to light.

Meanwhile, a keen runner from Stebbing is set to take part in this year's London marathon to support those living with brain injuries, reports the Braintree and Witham Times.

Ian Lawson's wife has also suffered a brain injury, following a horseriding accident, so is committed to raising money for the charity that has supported them.

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