She’s a karaoke queen. Seven-year-old Audrey Nethery from Kentucky is taking the Internet by storm and has become a singing sensation with more than a million followers on Facebook.
“I was inspired by Taylor Swift. Because she has all the passion and spirit and I thought I would start singing to maybe put a little passion and spirit in me so maybe I could fight off my disease,” Nethery told NBC.
The little girl has become such a hit she even got to meet Taylor Swift.
Nethery has a disease called Diamond-Blackfan Anemia. The disease is a bone marrow malfunction that fails to make enough red blood cells.
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“It doesn’t make as much blood cells as most people do. And it makes me a little bit short but that doesn’t stop me from moving and acting,” Nethery said.
Nethery’s parents started a Facebook page, Audrey’s BDA Photo Booth, as a way to raise awareness for the disease.
On the page they also share some of the more difficult moments, such as when Nethery has to go through a blood transfusion.
But throughout all of this, the young Nethery keeps on singing and dancing.
“You just have to take a breath and say I can do this and you go out there and you just do it.”