DALLAS — When Chloee Rae was diagnosed with Crohn’s disease when she was 12, she worried her hopes and dreams of pursuing a music career might be a victim of her diagnosis too. Instead, she is now the newest face of an effort to help heal kids just like her through music.
Texas Music Project, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting at-risk youth through music education, launched Song of Hope, a new songwriting therapy initiative in its Music Heals program. Pediatric patients at Children’s Health in Dallas, including Joseph Sabin and his son Jace, a heart surgery survivor, penned a song called “Thank you for the Music.” Chloee Rae, now 16 and a former Children’s Health patient, performs the song in a TMP-produced video.
“Oh it helps me forget it even exists,” Chloee Rae said of music’s impact on her chronic illness. “It immediately makes you forget that anything is even wrong with you.”…