A homeless woman with an angel's voice has recently captured the hearts of internet viewers after an amazing police officer published a video of her singing onto social media.
The police officer from the Los Angeles Police Department had been stationed at the Wilshire and Normandie Purple Line station when he suddenly heard a homeless woman performing an enchanting rendition of Puccini Aria on the platform nearby.
After pulling out his mobile to record a video of the woman, he published it to the police department’s Twitter page. It was later viewed hundreds of thousands of times.
Since the video was shared all over the internet, the woman was eventually identified as 52-year-old Emily Zamourka: a Russian woman with no traditional vocal training, even though she was classically trained on piano and violin.
Zamourka said she usually makes money by playing the violin, but her precious $10,000 instrument had been stolen three years ago.
4 million people call LA home. 4 million stories. 4 million voices...sometimes you just have to stop and listen to one, to hear something beautiful. pic.twitter.com/VzlmA0c6jX
— LAPD HQ (@LAPDHQ) September 27, 2019
Since she’s also been coping with undisclosed health problems, she's been sleeping—and singing—on the streets until she's able to get herself back into permanent housing.
According to Good News Network, she also only recently discovered that the video had made her an overnight internet sensation—yet she now hopes that her newfound fame will help her to get off of the streets soon.
Michael Trujillo, a Los Angeles consultant that set up a GoFundMe campaign for the musician after hearing her story on the news, is currently working with his local councilman’s office that is in touch with the woman, to make sure that the donations help to get Zamourka off the streets; he says that the Downtown Women’s Center is working on getting Zamourka into temporary housing.
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