She is fluent in Italian and spent a year living in the country.
Her ancestors are from Italy, England, Germany, Portugal, and France, and her last name, Bareilles, is French. She has two sisters, Stacey and Jennifer, and Melody's half-sister, her closest family. Bareilles is the youngest of the three daughters. A song just for them."Īs the video shows, the perfect song doesn’t cure cancer, but it does lift the spirit.Bareilles was born December 7, 1979, and reared in Eureka, Humboldt County, California, as one of three daughters of Bonnie Halvorsen (née Capellas), a funeral home worker, and Paul Bareilles, an insurance adjuster. If music helped me, I thought maybe I could give these kids the gift of that perfect song. When I visit pediatric hospitals, all I want to do is make it better. But what I can't fathom, is what it’s like for a little kid to face such a grown-up disease. "I now know what it feels like to struggle with cancer. It brought me out of some of the darkest holes. Music has this way that right when you hear the note, it changes you.
You put on a song and your mood changes instantly. "Seven years ago, I was diagnosed with breast cancer and as I fought through the scariest period of my life, music was one thing that helped keep the fear at bay," Kotb said. The NBC personality, who is helping to raise money to fight pediatric cancer for the network's Shine a Light campaign, recalled that when she was battling her disease, music was her solace.
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