To make a long story short, Maddy used to sing in Kid’s Choir at our church. At some point, her Autism caused her to shut down and not sing, and she decided not to continue in KC. It’s been a year or two since then and I finally got her to come into my studio with me to lay down a song which she used to sing with her friend Sarah when we owned The Light Concert House in Santa Rosa, a Christ-centered live music venue. She loves singing and the social anxiety caused by her Autism never got in the way when she stepped behind a microphone. Her little face lights up and you can see the joy of the Lord in her face as she sings! So of course it broke my heart when she stopped singing, knowing it was such a joy to her, and to me and my wife to watch her. When she agreed to come in and record with me a few weeks, ago, I was ecstatic! We only layed down a few tracks; barely enough for her to warm up. But it was a start and it sparked her in a big way! She is totally excited about singing more with me now and we’re putting together our first CD!
If you’d like to see her singing You Are Worthy of My Praise with me, we’re out on YouTube at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rD3BjI3hBAU and we’ve got a clip of our studio version here: http://www.themessage.us/youareworthy.mp3 but we are changing the key to better accomodate Maddy’s range, like we did in the live YouTube version. So we’ll be rerecording the guitars and vocals of this recording soon, but you can at least hear what she sounds like in the studio. 
THE MESSAGE is at THE LIGHTHOUSE CHURCH at 88 School St. in Santa Rosa this Tuesday 3/23/10 for the grand opening of CELEBRATE RECOVERY meetings every Tuesday at The Lighthouse. I hope you’ll join us!
Tags: Maddy & Daddy, Maddy and Daddy, Madison Cobb
