Burn-victim singer brings SA doctors to tears
18 June 2017 - 00:00
Gauteng specialist physician and pulmonologist Dr Hussein Pahad needed a handful of tissues after watching Nigerian plane-crash survivor Kechi Okwuchi get the nod from all four judges on America's Got Talent last week.
Okwuchi's rendition of Ed Sheeran's Thinking Out Loud wowed judges Howie Mandel, Mel B, Heidi Klum and Simon Cowell. It also got a standing ovation from the audience on the US-based singing reality show.
Okwuchi was one of two survivors of the Sosoliso plane crash on December 10 2005. She boarded the doomed flight from Abuja to Port Harcourt in Nigeria along with about 60 classmates. They were heading home for Christmas from boarding school...
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