Mandy Harvey is a singer with a soft but powerful voice. She's been singing since she was a little girl, but there's something perhaps even more special about her than her voice. Mandy dealt with recurring hearing problems throughout her entire life, but when she was around 17 years old ,her battle came to an end: Mandy completely lost her hearing. For the singer, it seemed her life and possible career was over.
"I broke and I remember thinking, 'Well, what do I do now?' [it was] like I died, like I watched myself die," Mandy told NBC's Erica Hill. It was an entire year before Mandy's dad could convince her to begin singing again. When she sang, her voice was exactly the same, though she couldn't hear herself, the world could still enjoy her gift. We've seen this kind of resilience before with blind painter John Bramblitt.
Since losing her hearing, Mandy has released three jazz albums. Now that Mandy can no longer hear the music, she feels it, quite literally, through the vibrations on the floor. She can read lips and even play the guitar. "I don't see myself as the deaf jazz singer, I see myself as a singer. I have certain hurdles, and I'm overcoming them," she says.
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