Patient at the microphone recording her Purple Song, with Purple Songs Can Fly’s Founder and Director, Anita Kruse at the keyboard, and cellist, Hellen Weberpal, part of the Houston Symphony Embedded Musician Program.
purple songs can fly
is a unique program that provides a musical outlet for the many children being treated for cancer and blood disorders at Texas Children’s Cancer and Hematology Centers. In this program, which is the first of its kind, the children and their siblings work with founder, Anita Kruse, and other professional singer/songwriters in an in-hospital recording studio to write, record, and burn songs to disc within short sessions.
Purple Songs not only can fly, but do fly. The children’s songs are copied on purple CDs and flown by participating passengers, pilots and astronauts to places on earth and into space. To date, thousands of songs have been written, recorded and flown around the globe and beyond. The songs have flown on two space shuttle missions, been heard on the in-flight playlists of both Continental and United Airlines, toured the world with The Rolling Stones, traveled on an undersea NOAA mission, and summited Mount Everest. Most notably, in 2013, the children of Purple Songs Can Fly performed the world premiere of their song Celebration of Hope at Carnegie Hall in New York City.
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Journey to Hope, Purple Songs Can Fly's Award-Winning Documentary Feature Film.
Additional Recordings
"Strength Is In The Soul" © Purple Songs Can Fly. Written and recorded by cancer patient, Sophia Anagnostou with Anita Kruse and Purple Songs Can Fly at the West Campus of Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers. Directed by Anne Hill, mixed by Annalisa Cuano, and videography by Erik and Jesse Sanchez. Special Thanks to the staff at Texas Children's Hospital West Campus.
#NoOneFightsAlone: Former American Idol contestant and cancer survivor Christian Spear sings No One Fights Alone. The song is written and recorded by Spear and Anita Kruse, founder and executive director of Purple Songs Can Fly. It is dedicated to patients at Texas Children's Cancer Center and children fighting cancer across the globe in honor of Children's Cancer Awareness Month.
Written and Recorded by Mia Spargo with Anita Kruse and Purple Songs Can Fly © Purple Songs Can Fly/All Rights Reserved. The Houston Symphony Community-Embedded Musicians' participation in this project is part of the ongoing partnership between the Houston Symphony's Education and Community Programming Department and Purple Songs Can Fly.
Current/Upcoming
Due to immune-compromised issues involving the children, there are no public events scheduled for the remainder of 2022.
Purple Songs Can Fly is working on their 2nd musical, HOPE CAN HAPPEN, which should be ready to share in early 2023.