The proudest moment of my life was when Kira closed her favourite song ‘Music is Magic’ using her switch on stage at the London Palladium.

When we got to the “In Jesus Christ's name” she said, “Oh Yes! He's the man looking after my daddy!”.

In June 2020 The Music Man Project released a video for my new song 'Have You Ever Stopped to Think'. It featured beautiful photographs of our musicians as babies. In this series of blogs, I delve behind the pictures to reveal the stories behind the babies... Here is Aidan's story, told by his mum... Aidan was born 7 weeks early after I developed pre-eclampsia. He was taken straight to PICU (Paediatric Intensive Care Unit) because he had a collapsed lung. 7 weeks later he was

In June 2020 The Music Man Project released a video for my new song 'Have You Ever Stopped to Think'. It featured beautiful photographs of our musicians as babies. In this series of blogs, I delve behind the pictures to reveal the stories behind the babies... Here is Vanessa's story, told by her sister... At 3 months old, Vanessa was found grey and frothing at the mouth. She was taken to hospital where the doctors told mum and dad that she had a blocked bowel and partly twist

In June 2020 The Music Man Project released a video for my new song 'Have You Ever Stopped to Think'. It featured beautiful photographs of our musicians as babies. In this series of blogs, I delve behind the pictures to reveal the stories behind the babies... Here is Daniel's story, told by his mum and dad... Daniel was born 4 weeks early on 23rd June 2002. His early birth caught us by surprise, but we were even more surprised to be told there was a suspicion that he had Down

In June 2020 The Music Man Project released a video for my new song 'Have You Ever Stopped to Think'. It featured beautiful photographs of our musicians as babies. In this series of blogs, I delve behind the pictures to reveal the stories behind the babies... Here is Thomas' story, told by his mum... Thomas was a very quiet baby. When he did not seem to make any progress in terms of his speech, we saw our GP and went through hearing test after hearing test. We were told he wa

In June 2020 The Music Man Project released a video for my new song 'Have You Ever Stopped to Think'. It featured beautiful photographs of our musicians as babies. In this series of blogs, I delve behind the pictures to reveal the stories behind the babies... Here is Madison's story, told by her mum... Madi was born at term plus 10 days. She was a lovely size at 8lb 7oz. My pregnancy was uneventful, so we opted for a home birth. The labour was pretty uneventful, lasting about

One of the biggest secrets of The Music Man Project is to keep it purely about the music. When I started teaching two decades ago, I had no training in disabilities, syndromes, behaviours, medication, social care or even clinical Music Therapy. This was actually the key to my early success. I taught the individual rather than the disability with higher expectations than some of my more experienced and qualified colleagues. I had enough ignorance to forge my own path! Music e