Teen Sings Throughout Brain Surgery To Help Doctors Preserve Her Singing Talent

A teenage girl in United State's Seattle has become a sensation as she sang the praises of doctors during her brain surgery. Musician Kira Iaconetti, 19, has been performing musical theatre since she was a child and has ambitions of making it a career and she feared that wouldn¡¯t happen after diagnosed her with a form of epilepsy. This epilepsy triggered seizures when she performed or even listened to the songs.

¡°It just [felt] like a light switch switches in my brain and suddenly I¡¯m tone deaf. I can¡¯t sing. I can¡¯t process the words in time with the music,¡± Iaconetti told ¡°Inside Edition.¡±

Seattle Children's Hospital

A neurosurgeon at Seattle Children¡¯s Hospital, Dr Jason Hauptman decided to let her sing during the surgery. She was given anaesthesia but was made to stay awake during the surgery and let her sing to ignite the parts of the brain that focus on musical abilities.

¡°Our focus was not only on taking care of tumour but making her life better. We wanted to preserve the things she cares about, like her passion for pursuing a career in musical theater,¡± Hauptman told People.com.

The young singer sang ¡°Island in the Sun¡± during the surgery and she chose this song as it made her remember her birthplace-Hawaii and also because of the line ¡°I can¡¯t control my brain.¡±

After surgery, she was put to sleep and this appears to have worked because, after a sound sleep, Iaconetti was playing the guitar and singing in the hospital bed for 48 hours after the operation, as per the hospital¡¯s website.

¡°My biggest fear before the surgery was that the seizures would get in the way of performing,¡± Iaconetti said. ¡°Now, I want to get back to the stage, to performing as soon as I can.¡±