Melody Gardot’s amazing recovery turns into music career 

American jazz singer, writer and musician, Melody Gardot is currently number one in France ahead of Black Eyed Peas with her latest album My One and Only Thrill. In a recent interview with CBS, the beautiful singer tells of how she came to have her handicap.  

Despite having suffered a fractured pelvis and spinal damage, the star’s taste for glamour is most evident in her wild shoes. Gardot says shoes are her collectors items, since she can’t drive very well.  

Six years ago, Gardot the college student was riding her bike through an intersection when a jeep skipped the light which caused not only the fractured pelvis and damaged spine, but a brain injury that affected her memory, speech and left her hypersensitive to light and sound. The accident inspired the lyrics “Well, I’m buckled up inside, Miracle I’m alive”.  

Dr Richard Jermyn at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey was not hopeful that shoe would recover her memory. As it’s a different part of the brain that perceives music to retrieving memory, he encouraged her to continue playing piano. Slowly the music therapy began rebuilding neural pathways.  

Out of that accident, her music career was born. Her songs and story quickly spread across MySpace after he songs were posted there in 2006. Despite having to constantly wear glasses for light sensitivity and walk with a cane to counteract onsets of vertigo, she remains a top selling artist, with style to boot.  

• Sherlock Holmes wins Art Directors Guild Award (2010/02/21 17:15:43)
• Sade’s Soldier of Love tops US charts (2010/02/21 17:15:32)
• TSA makes disabled boy walk through metal detector (2010/02/21 17:15:21)
• Ubisoft controls Assassins Creed 2 PC (2010/02/21 17:15:10)
• Acai berry diet-loss claims a fraud (2010/02/21 17:14:59)
• Bill Murray cameos in Zombieland as himself (2010/02/15 07:08:25)
• Jeff Hardy to return to wrestling in TNA stable (2010/02/15 07:08:06)
• How to buy a GPS (2010/02/15 07:07:57)
• Food fight over controversial film Food, Inc. (2010/02/15 07:07:47)
• Bratz and Barbie remade to look more realistic (2010/02/15 07:07:14)
• Online Shopping South Africa (2010/02/08 14:31:26)
• True Blood and Twilight become The Vampire Diaries? (2010/02/08 14:31:13)
• Transformers 3 to be filmed in the Windy City? (2010/02/08 14:31:00)
• Nintendo boss slates iPad (2010/02/08 14:30:22)
• Nikon to release backlit camera sensor lenses for PMA (2010/02/08 14:30:01)
• Online Shopping South Africa (2010/02/08 09:28:24)
• Sony PlayStation will be a control freak (2010/02/02 16:26:47)
• Mass Effect 2: Lots to talk about (2010/02/02 16:25:04)
• Ghost in the Shell team descend into the Inferno (2010/02/02 16:24:28)
• iPad - Best Prices Click Here (2010/02/02 16:23:36)
• New Moon DVD - Best Prices Click Here (2010/02/01 12:43:35)

• February 2012
• January 2012
• December 2011
• November 2011
• October 2011
• September 2011
• August 2011
• July 2011
• June 2011
• May 2011
• March 2011
• February 2011
• January 2011
• December 2010
• November 2010
• October 2010
• August 2010
• July 2010
• June 2010
• May 2010
• April 2010
• March 2010
• January 2010
• December 2009
• November 2009
• October 2009
• September 2009
• August 2009
• July 2009
• June 2009
• May 2009
• April 2009
• March 2009
• February 2009
• January 2009
• December 2008
• November 2008
• October 2008
• September 2008
• August 2008
• July 2008
• May 2008
• April 2008