An opera singer still performing after two double lung transplants has debuted a song she wrote to pay tribute to the immigrant roots of her more recent donor.
Charity Tillemann-Dick and her lung donor’s 24-year-old daughter, Esperanza Tufani, sang the song together in front of about 200 doctors and medical executives at a Cleveland medical summit on Tuesday.
Tillemann-Dick wrote the song, American Rainbow, to honor her connection with her donor, a Honduran immigrant who died of a stroke in 2012.
‘We are all part of this big human family, and I think transplants show that better than anything,’ Tillemann-Dick said.
