{"id":35620,"date":"2018-01-18T07:11:34","date_gmt":"2018-01-18T06:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=35620"},"modified":"2018-02-08T05:04:42","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T04:04:42","slug":"a-girl-sings-to-her-little-brother-down-and-ends-up-thrilling-millions-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2018\/01\/18\/a-girl-sings-to-her-little-brother-down-and-ends-up-thrilling-millions-of-people\/","title":{"rendered":"A Girl Sings to her Little Brother Down and Ends Up Thrilling Millions of People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Last night I saw on Facebook a video that made me smile from ear to ear.<\/strong> I bring it to you today, and I want to tell you also the impressive story that is behind this beautiful scene.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/12\/28\/eurielle-luthiens-lament-una-excelente-cancion-para-el-mas-bello-cuento-de-tolkien\/\">Eurielle: \"L\u00fathien\u2019s Lament\", una excelente canci\u00f3n para el m\u00e1s bello cuento de Tolkien<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"http:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2017\/12\/30\/iskierka-chispa-una-cancion-polaca-que-expone-el-drama-del-aborto-a-ritmo-de-rap\/\">'Iskierka' (Chispa): una canci\u00f3n polaca que expone el drama del aborto a ritmo de rap<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p><big>A little boy with Down syndrome who learns to speak with songs<\/big><\/p>\n<p>The small protagonist of this story <strong>is called Bo, he is American, he is 25 months old and he is one of those little angels who have Down syndrome.<\/strong> He is the youngest of four brothers (and he has a sister too). This Monday his mother, Amanda Bowman Gray, posted <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heberjonesy\/videos\/10155028240386813\/\">this video<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heberjonesy\">her Facebook profile<\/a>. In the text that accompanies the video Amanda explains that <strong>her daughter Lydia was looking at Bo. The girl has a guitar <\/strong>that helps her take care of her little brother. And how is that possible? <em>\"It\u2019s proof that music therapy works,\"<\/em> says Amanda. <strong><em>\"Bo is 25 months old and has a 12 word vocabulary. Every word he has learned has been through music and singing.\"<\/em><\/strong> In the video we see Lydia singing to the child a famous American country song, \"You are my sunshine\", written in 1939 by Jimmie Davis and Charles Mitchell. <strong>The video has gone viral: 34 million people have seen it in 3 days.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fheberjonesy%2Fvideos%2F10155028240386813%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><big>A beautiful country song to try to comfort Bo<\/big><\/p>\n<p>This is a very special musical theme for this little boy, as his mother explained in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/heberjonesy\/videos\/10155028514666813\/\">another publication<\/a> that same day. <strong>Amanda and her husband, Caleb, are musicians. His little Bo was admitted to a pediatric hospital<\/strong> - the Primary Children's Hospital in Salt Lake City, Utah - <strong>for cardiac surgery, and <em>\"ended up going downhill really fast really bad.<\/strong> He was one of the sickest children on the West Coast for a few weeks,\"<\/em> his mother recalls. He spent a lot of time with an ECMO machine, which is used to provide breathing and heart support to patients whose lungs and heart are severely damaged. <em>\"After weeks and weeks (which ended up in months) of being in the hospital in a silent room,\"<\/em> says his mother, <em>\"<strong>we got special permission to bring a guitar in and sing to him in hopes that it would comfort him <\/strong>as they believed that he could still hear us even though he couldn\u2019t physically respond.\"<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>A month before the operation of the small Bo, Amanda and Caleb had begun to rehearse \"You are my sunshine\" for some concerts.<\/strong> <em>\"At night we would practice and sing this song while he was in my arms,\"<\/em> says Amanda. The song is very famous, but for those who do not know it, <strong>this is its lyrics:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\"You are my sunshine, my only sunshine,<br \/>\nYou make me happy when skies are grey,<br \/>\nYou'll never know, dear, how much I love you,<br \/>\nPlease, don't take my sunshine away.\"<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><big>The music ended up working a 'little miracle'<\/big><\/p>\n<p>Caleb took the guitar to the hospital, and he and his wife asked one of the nurses to videotape the moment they sang the song to the child. <em>\"This was the first time that he moved as he reacted to the familiarity of the song and our voices,\"<\/em> Amanda explains. <em>\"From then on this has become his theme song. We are firm believers in music therapy!\"<\/em> <strong>In the following video you can see that amazing moment<\/strong> in which the child started to move when listening to his parents singing:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fheberjonesy%2Fvideos%2F10155028514666813%2F&show_text=0&width=560\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" allowFullScreen=\"true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Bo's mother explains that the boy survived and that two international studies have been interested in his case <em>\"because<strong> he should\u2019ve never survived what his little body had gone through.<\/strong>\"<\/em> The doctors and the surgeons were surprised. <strong><em>\"He seriously is our little miracle,\"<\/strong><\/em> says his mother. My congratulations to this family for that little miracle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night I saw on Facebook a video that made me smile from ear to ear. I bring it to you today, and I want to tell you also the impressive story that is behind this beautiful scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[11348,10429],"tags":[11228,11403,11401],"class_list":["post-35620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-second","tag-down-syndrome","tag-music-therapy","tag-you-are-my-sunshine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}