You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. On Tuesday, March 20th, 2018 at 4:00 pm and is filed under News & Commentary. But videos like this one help to demonstrate how precious and valuable every single child is, no matter what their abilities. I don’t think any of us ever expected it would quite turn out like it has done,” she said.Ĭelebrities including James Corden and Christina Perri are supporting the video.Ĭhildren with Down syndrome and their families often face discrimination. “It’s just getting more and more momentum as it’s going. Within the first hour there was around a thousand views and people were saying: ‘This is going to be quite big’. “We knew it was going to be shared on social media, but that’s as far as we thought it would go.
“I wanted to get involved in the carpool karaoke to get more awareness out there,” Britton told LeedsLive. Song Lyrics Heart beats fast Colors and promises How to be brave How can I love when Im afraid to fall But watching you stand alone All of my doubt. “We want to show everyone that an extra chromosome is nothing to be scared of or worried about and hope people will get involved in celebrating Down’s syndrome on March 21.”Īnother mother and daughter on the video, Julie Britton and Connie Seabourne, of Morley, had no idea how popular the video would become. He makes us smile and laugh every day,” Davidson said. “Ruairidh is the best thing that has happened to us.
The Daily Record reports Kirsty Davidson and her son Ruairidh were one of the Scottish families who participated in the video. They got together to show the world just how ordinary and fun life with the condition is and how they ‘Wouldn’t Change a Thing.’” Its Scottish creators described how the project came about: “The mums are all part of a Facebook group known as ‘Designer Genes’ created for parents who have a child with Down’s Syndrome born in 2013/14.
This exclusive video of Christina performing "A Thousand Years" is part of The Live Room series on The Warner Sound.The video, launched a few days ahead of World Down Syndrome Day on March 21, already has about 1.3 million views as of the writing of this article.Īs the name suggests, the “50 Mums, 50 Children, 1 Extra Chromosome” video features 50 mothers and young children with Down syndrome using Makaton sign language to sing “A Thousand Years” by Christina Perri. What other movies would you like to write songs for? Fortunately or unfortunately, I keep falling in and out of love, so I've got tons of material! I'll start recording at the beginning of next year, and it'll come out in 2013." I was on tour for 27 months, but then I jumped right into it. "I'm smack in the middle of making album two. So doing a Christmas EP was inevitable for me I've always wanted to record one. "I'm such a Christmas fanatic-beyond my family and the holiday, musically, Christmas carols are the first songs I ever performed. For a thousand years, I love you for a thousand more Verse 2 Cadd9 G/B Time stands still, beauty in all she is Em7 D/F G I will be brave, I will not let any-thing Cadd9 G/B Take away, whats standing in front of me Em7 D/F G Am Every breath, every hour has come to this Em D N.C. Now the song is not just for Edward and Bella it's for the whole franchise. It plays during the last moments that we see Edward and Bella, and then a curtain call of the whole cast, so it's pretty epic. So that's what makes it really special that they asked me if it could be in the most epic six minutes of the final film.
And it was the second credit song, so most of the people had pretty much left the theatre, but it connected with all of the fans more than the singles from the soundtrack and the bigger scenes. "In Breaking Dawn – Part 1, the song was in the credits.