Gianna Horak / Courtesy of Lee Salem Photography
A Young Singer’s Olympic-Sized Adventure: Part One
She was adopted from China as an infant—tiny, beautiful, and, her doctors feared, possibly deaf. Today Gianna Horak, a skilled pianist, composer, and singer with the Los Angeles Children’s Chorus prepares for the journey of her young life—a chorus tour to the country of her birth.
Kelsey Menehan
The Olympic Games always bring forth moving stories of athletes overcoming great odds to participate in this grand quadrennial event. This year there's another "Olympic" story, just as inspiring, not about an athlete, but about a 14-year-old singer named Gianna Horak. Gianna began her life in an orphanage in China, and later this June she will return to country of her birth for the first time since she was an infant.
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