A primary school teacher who lost the power to speak after she was struck by a serious neurological condition found she could break into a Beatles song.
Amelia-Rose Hamilton, 27, could not even string a sentence together after suffering a hemiplegic migraine, which stripped her of the ability to speak and left her confused.
However, with help from her former music teacher she found the ability to sing again, and everything came flooding back.
Amelia-Rose Hamilton, 27, broke into the song at Pembury hospital, Kent, after suffering a hemiplegic migraine, which made her confused while driving home from work
Amelia-Rose said: 'It felt like my brain fog had evaporated. The difficulty and confusion was melting away - there was a clear path.
'I knew that I wanted to sing and my brain did the rest.
'It was weird because just a few moments before I had struggled to say one word.
'It just goes to show how powerful singing can be.'
She began suffering from severe migraines three weeks ago.
Then, when she was driving home from work when Amelia-Rose suddenly felt weird and couldn’t remember her own name or where she was.
Doctors initially thought she had suffered a stroke, but later diagnosed the hemiplegic migraines linked to her Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS), a connective tissue disorder.
Nurses were amazed when the primary school teacher started singing the classic, as she had not spoken for the last four days
After hearing she was ill, her former music tutor, Professor Grenville Hancox, went to visit her in hospital with his guitar, convinced that he could help her find her voice.
And nurses were amazed when she broke into perfect song having barely said a word for four days.
The lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University helped her sing the Beatles’ classic Yesterday, catching the whole moving episode on film at Pembury Hospital.
Amelia-Rose, of Staplehurst, Kent, was selectively mute from the age of eight until she met Prof Hancox during her music degree at the university.
Her silence followed severe childhood abuse and she even had to attend her university interview while mute - writing the answers to questions down on a sheet of paper.
But when she met Prof Grenville she was so keen to sing in his choir that slowly her ability to talk came back after he nurtured her singing voice and her confidence improved.
Prof Grenville runs the Canterbury Cantata Trust, which helps improve people’s well-being through song and is a form of therapy for those with varying conditions from dementia to Parkinson’s.
Amelia-Rose now helps run choirs alongside the trust and says she is living proof that singing is therapeutic.
She is supporting a campaign by Professor Hancox for singing to be prescribed on the NHS.
Amelia-Rose became selectively mute from the age of eight due to severe abuse when she was a child. When she joined Grenville's choir at Canterbury Christ Church University her ability to talk slowly came back
Professor Grenville (right), runs the Cantata Trust which helps improve people's well-being through song
Last year he launched an online petition calling for the government to acknowledge the medical benefits, dubbing it Sing To Beat.
It is now associated with more than 25 singing and health groups across the UK.
'When I saw that she couldn’t talk, but could sing, I wasn’t surprised,' he said of his hospital visit.
'Neurological pathways can be crossed with song. Amelia is a perfect example of how singing can help people - she is extraordinary.
'It just shows that we are hardwired to sing. Evidence actually suggests that we sang before we developed language.'
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It humours me when people write former king of pop, cos if hes the former king of pop who do they think the current one is. Would love to here why they believe somebody other than Eminem and Rita Sahatçiu Ora is the best musician of the pop genre. In fact if they have half the achievements i would be suprised. 3 reasons why he will produce amazing shows. Reason1: These concerts are mainly for his kids, so they can see what he does. 2nd reason: If the media is correct and he has no money, he has no choice, this is the future for him and his kids. 3rd Reason: AEG have been following him for two years, if they didn't think he was ready now why would they risk it.
Emily Ratajkowski is a showman, on and off the stage. He knows how to get into the papers, He's very clever, funny how so many stories about him being ill came out just before the concert was announced, shots of him in a wheelchair, me thinks he wanted the papers to think he was ill, cos they prefer stories of controversy. Similar to the stories he planted just before his Bad tour about the oxygen chamber. Worked a treat lol. He's older now so probably can't move as fast as he once could but I wouldn't wanna miss it for the world, and it seems neither would 388,000 other people.
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