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Plane Crash Survivor, Kechi Okwuchi
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Sosoliso plane crash
survivor, Kechi Okwuchi this week gave an emotional audition on season 12 of
America’s Got Talent.
Daily
Trust report continues:
Before
singing her version of Ed Sheeran’s ‘Thinking out Loud’ she narrated to the
judges and audience how her love for singing began. ‘I want to share my voice
with AGT. I was in a plane crash when I was 16 years old, which took the life
of 107 out of 109, which left two survivors. I was one of the two survivors.”
Responding to Simeon Cowell’s question on how she has managed to deal
with the trauma, she said, “Lying down in the hospital bed with bandages from
head to foot, music was my escape and that’s why it means so much to me.”
At
the end of her song, kechi got a standing ovation from the judges and audience,
some teary-eyed. Fans of the America’s Got Talent page were thrilled by her
performance. Prabha Verma said, “What a girl to have come out of such a
tragedy and still standing so tall and strong. She has to be someone special”.
Another fan, Gu Hai , said, “So lovely voice I love her She gives me
inspiration Life is not fair But we have to make the best way to live Keep it
up. I want to see more of her.”
Kechi,
who after several surgeries graduated with a First Class degree from University
of Thomas Houston, Texas on May 16th, 2015 was also inducted into 6 academic
honor societies. She was the most outstanding student for her major in
Economics and has already been accepted into graduate school for her MBA. Ms.
Okwuchi survived the ill-fated Port Harcourt bound flight which crashed on the
runway and killed 107 people, including her close friend who was sitting next
to her and late Pastor Bimbo Odukoya.
Kechi has had more than 100 surgeries, including skin grafts in the US as a result of the severe burns all over her body. Despite these challenges, she hasn’t stopped reaching for greatness.
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