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A crowdfunding campaign was launched the morning of Christmas Eve to support Ottawa jazz singing star Kellylee Evans, who suffered a concussion last month and is on indefinite bed rest in keeping with a doctor’s order.
The new injury for Evans, a Juno Award winner who frequently tours France and beyond, prompted a relapse of symptoms that plagued her two years ago after she was struck by lightning, says the crowdfunding webpage, which was created by Evans’ friend, Toronto singer Amanda Martinez.
“Her doctor insisted she cancel all tour dates and has instructed her to be on bed rest indefinitely,” wrote Martinez. “She’s been told to keep her eyes closed and not look at a computer, so working from her bed is not an option for proper healing.”
After just a few hours, the campaign had raised more than $1,800 toward a goal of $30,000. Funds go directly to Evans, a 40-year-old single mother of three, to cover her expenses for groceries, shelter and medical needs.
Evans did not want to ask for help and feels guilty, says Martinez, adding that she talks to her friend “almost daily.” But Evans has come to acknowledge that she can’t endanger her health “because of the money,” Martinez says.
“It just blows my mind how she’s keeping positive,” she adds.
The setback has occurred a few months after the European release of Evans’ latest record, Come On. It is to be released next year in North America.
In an interview, Martinez said that Evans fell last month, hit her head, and suffered a concussion. She now has nausea when she stands up.
In early June 2013, Evans was struck by lightning during a freak accident. She was standing in front of her kitchen window during an electrical storm, with her bare feet on a concrete floor and a wet sponge in her hands. The sponge made contact with the kitchen sink, and apparently the lightning traveled through the plumbing and hit her.
“It was just bang, this huge jolt. Like the biggest carpet shock you’ve ever had,” she told the Citizen then. “I screamed and everyone came running.”
Two days after that accident, Evans experienced heart palpitations, headaches and weakness on the left side of her body. She used a wheelchair after the accident, and if she tired, her voice could slur. “My circuits got scrambled,” she said. Doctors said then that she could tour as long as she took it easy.
In 2010, Evans’ made-in-France album Nina, a tribute to vocal legend Nina Simone, won the Juno Award for vocal jazz album of the year. Her international career took off with that release. She followed up that album with 2013’s hip-hop-influenced I Remember When.
Evans, a huge natural talent who first indulged her interest in singing at Carleton University and the Ottawa-based JazzWorks jazz camp in the 1990s, saw her career take off when at the age of 29, she came in second at the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition.
Support Kellylee Evans
The crowdfunding campaign can be found at:
https://www.gofundme.com/y4g7tyf8
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The new injury for Evans, a Juno Award winner who frequently tours France and beyond, prompted a relapse of symptoms that plagued her two years ago after she was struck by lightning, says the crowdfunding webpage, which was created by Evans’ friend, Toronto singer Amanda Martinez.
“Her doctor insisted she cancel all tour dates and has instructed her to be on bed rest indefinitely,” wrote Martinez. “She’s been told to keep her eyes closed and not look at a computer, so working from her bed is not an option for proper healing.”
After just a few hours, the campaign had raised more than $1,800 toward a goal of $30,000. Funds go directly to Evans, a 40-year-old single mother of three, to cover her expenses for groceries, shelter and medical needs.
Evans did not want to ask for help and feels guilty, says Martinez, adding that she talks to her friend “almost daily.” But Evans has come to acknowledge that she can’t endanger her health “because of the money,” Martinez says.
“It just blows my mind how she’s keeping positive,” she adds.
The setback has occurred a few months after the European release of Evans’ latest record, Come On. It is to be released next year in North America.
In an interview, Martinez said that Evans fell last month, hit her head, and suffered a concussion. She now has nausea when she stands up.
In early June 2013, Evans was struck by lightning during a freak accident. She was standing in front of her kitchen window during an electrical storm, with her bare feet on a concrete floor and a wet sponge in her hands. The sponge made contact with the kitchen sink, and apparently the lightning traveled through the plumbing and hit her.
“It was just bang, this huge jolt. Like the biggest carpet shock you’ve ever had,” she told the Citizen then. “I screamed and everyone came running.”
Two days after that accident, Evans experienced heart palpitations, headaches and weakness on the left side of her body. She used a wheelchair after the accident, and if she tired, her voice could slur. “My circuits got scrambled,” she said. Doctors said then that she could tour as long as she took it easy.
In 2010, Evans’ made-in-France album Nina, a tribute to vocal legend Nina Simone, won the Juno Award for vocal jazz album of the year. Her international career took off with that release. She followed up that album with 2013’s hip-hop-influenced I Remember When.
Evans, a huge natural talent who first indulged her interest in singing at Carleton University and the Ottawa-based JazzWorks jazz camp in the 1990s, saw her career take off when at the age of 29, she came in second at the 2004 Thelonious Monk International Jazz Vocals Competition.
Support Kellylee Evans
The crowdfunding campaign can be found at:
https://www.gofundme.com/y4g7tyf8
查看原文...
