An 83-year-old Scottish woman with dementia is quickly climbing the UK music charts after her nursing home caregiver fell in love with her singing voice.<\/p>\n
Because of her dementia, Margaret Mackie has trouble remembering things from day to daybut she does remember all the words to Frank Sinatras 1969 ballad My Way.<\/p>\n
After Mackie and her 31-year-old caregiver Jamie Lee Morley sang a duet of the song at their nursing homes Christmas karaoke party last month, staffers were in awe of her talent.<\/p>\n
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Her family and friends were there in the audience to witness this momentand what a moment it was, says Morley. For her to get up on stage at her age and have so much courage and fight and sing so beautifully absolutely blew my mind. [Its] a moment I will never ever forget.<\/p>\n
Morley, who had bonded with Mackie over their shared love of music before, then got his elderly patient to record the song at the Ingleston-based studio Sound Sound.<\/p>\n
Since uploading their rendition to iTunes earlier this week, it has steadily climbed up to #8 on the UKs Top 40 Most Popular Music chart, surpassing the likes of Ed Sheeran, Selena Gomez, Lizzo, and Miley Cyrus.<\/p>\n
Additionally, since the song costs 79 pence to download, Morley and Mackie are donating all of the songs proceeds to Alzheimers Society and Dementia UK.<\/p>\n
Morley told the Edinburgh Evening News this week that the songs success has been absolutely incredible.<\/p>\n
The feeling of getting so much awareness out there and connecting everyone through the power of music is exactly why we recorded the song as a single, he said. Margarets family and me couldnt be any happier with how the public have responded to it.<\/p>\n
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