‘The Big Inspiration’: Father Uses Music to Sing About Daughter’s Health Battles
Musician Jesse Norell is using music as an outlet to talk about his daughter’s medical struggles. “Alyssa was the big inspiration for the record,” Jesse Norell told “ Good Morning America ” about his album titled “Aorta…
Musician Jesse Norell is using music as an outlet to talk about his daughter’s medical struggles.
“Alyssa was the big inspiration for the record,” Jesse Norell told “Good Morning America” about his album titled “Aorta Borealis.”
According to “Good Morning America,” at only five months old, Alyssa had her first heart surgery.
“We found out on the day she was born that she had down syndrome, that she had a heart defect,” Jesse shared.
Continuing, Jesse explained the meaning of his album title, “Aorta Borealis,” which he said “makes a reference to the heart and it makes a reference to the Northern Lights.”
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“The heart stuff is a prominent on the record because she’s surviving heart surgeries and then Borealis makes a reference to the Northern Lights and the Northern Lights are something you can only see when it’s dark,” he said.
Jesse goes on to share that he felt like he had to talk about “the darker parts” of their story “because that makes the end of the record where we’re talking about Family and the joy of staying together and having each other.”