This episode is dedicated to the front line workers.
I had the pleasure of interviewing singer/songwriter Nancy Kelel. In this podcast, Nancy and I start out chatting about her influences and why she got into music. More importantly, we speak about the pandemic, and her dedication to Front Line Workers. Her song, Front Line Strong, is linked below. Nancy talks about her inspiration for the song, the viral photo of two nurses holding signs in a hospital window (in her video and used with permission of the family) and her struggle with H1N1 many years ago. She was in a coma for 3-1/2 weeks and talks about her recovery and rehab from this. As mentioned below, we also speak about being grateful. Nancy met the doctor who saved her life in a Costco gas line and had the opportunity to thank him.
Proceeds from Front Line Strong go to the Brave of Heart fund. The fund provides charitable grants to eligible family members of frontline healthcare workers and volunteers who lose their lives to COVID-19.
Of interest is the Songs Alive contest to write a song about water, which brought awareness to the lack of water and resources on the Navajo reservations in Arizona. She wrote a song called “The Water Song” that she would like to produce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCml9tS7oaw
https://www.braveofheartfund.com/
https://www.songsalive.org/ (check out testimonials)
One of the subjects we touched upon was “being grateful”, and Nancy has a lot to be grateful for, as mentioned above. Nancy also mentions “Songs Alive”, and is the recipient of their 2019 Songwriter of the Year !!
