Standup9ja: Sosoliso plane crash survivor gets standing
ovation on America’s Got Talent
Sosoliso plane crash survivor, Kechi Okwuchi this week gave
an emotional audition on season 12 of America’s Got Talent. 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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