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Personal Interest Story of the Day: While studying vocal music education at CSU, Mandy Harvey discovered she was going deaf. “In a year’s time I had gone from being slightly hard of hearing, as I have been all my life, to gone,” Harvey told Denver’s KMGH-TV. Naturally, she became severely depressed, and eventually was forced to leave school, closing the door on her hopes of becoming a professional jazz singer.

From 7 News:

That is, until she recorded a song at home for her boyfriend.

“And my dad would listen to the recording, he’s like that’s it, that’s it, you have it still,” Harvey said. “And so it was like this eureka moment.”

That’s when Harvey reached out to Cynthia Vaughn, her vocal instructor during high school and college. […]

The pair sat down at the piano, and Vaughn played a five note descending scale, which Harvey sang, perfectly in tune.

“I really almost fell off the piano bench,” said Vaughn.

Unable to hear her own voice, Harvey now sings by the memory of notes, sight reading and sensation.

Harvey is now a featured vocalist at Jay’s Bistro in Fort Collins, and has already recorded a CD with no plans to stop doing what she loves any time soon. 

Thank you to The Daily What on Tumblr for posting this story.