HOUSTON, Texas — A unique music program at Texas Children’s Hospital is helping children with cancer and blood disorders tell their stories through music.
Purple Songs Can Fly is the first recording studio ever created on a pediatric cancer floor.
The studio gives young patients the opportunity to write their own original songs and record them. Founder Anita Kruse first started Purple Songs Can Fly in 2006 after performing at Texas Children’s Hospital as a visiting musician.
“When I thought of that line, Purple Songs Can Fly, I was thinking of the idea of sort of rising above illness,” said Kruse.
Since then, Purple Songs Can Fly has produced more than 3,000 songs. Cancer survivor Layla Borghese remembers how excited she was the first time she entered the recording studio.
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