Miracle for Musician
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Chagall Sierra is known as "Voice of an Angel" in Toronto for her enchanting soprano voice, similar to Enya, Loreena McKennitt, and Hayley Westenra. She is a busker (street musician) and official TTC Subway Musician, doing her best to earn a living from music by entertaining people for spare change.
This work has good days and bad days, and most days she barely covers her immediate bills. Unfortunately, there's no benefits or health insurance for this type of position without paying extra, which she simply hasn't been able to afford.
Without being able to work as a singer and flute player in the Subway she'll just end up rotting on welfare instead of entertaining people in her job as a busker. However, the free dental care that exists is not available for people between the ages of 18 and 64. See article: http://www.torontosun.com/2015/01/24/dental-care-for-the-welfare-recipients-needs-work
Due to childhood malnutrition (adult teeth are formed during childhood,) and a lifetime of dental work not being covered, and bills barely being covered... and a few years when she was too sick from the neighbours' smoke of various kinds to be able to take care of herself at all... two of her teeth recently broke off right at the gumline. She then discovered that all her teeth are cracked and breaking! Fixing them over the years has been piecemeal because nothing was covered. Teeth, like people, aren't designed to stand alone.
All her teeth need to be removed! She's only 37, and can't play flute anymore until getting musician-grade dentures. Those are expensive.
In 2013 she prayed to God and began getting some help from her neighbours. Since then, she's been getting stronger and stronger and has had a string of minor successes: She passed the audition for the official TTC Subway Musicians, revived a music project, started 2 new music projects, tried to start a community music education initiative, started a virtual label for promotion and community building around a particular indie music niche. She's working very hard trying to build her career in order to get off assistance entirely.
The immediate need is for a couple of veils to cover the teeth up during performances so that people don't recoil from even looking at her. (People have been crossing the street to avoid her since the second tooth broke off.) Hopefully then she can continue to work as a singer - however to play flute again she needs the full amount.
The estimate covers costs for extraction, implants to stabilize the dentures for flute performance, and dentures. As well, it covers the increased cost of soft foods along with the loss of income, fees and taxes.
At this point she's so frustrated with the repeating dental troubles that she wants to never worry about missing work due to tooth infections again, but not even extraction is covered - unless it's "an emergency" according to the government.
If she doesn't get the full amount then she'll get the cheapest dentures possible and harp lessons to be able to still earn a living as a musician without playing flute.
If you can spare a couple of bucks for Kanye, please consider sparing a couple of bucks to help this working musician. Any donation above $5 will receive a free download of her original Meditative World Fusion music album.
Thank you. Any bit helps at this point!
