Nanette Florian-Former Lead Singer with The New Christy Minstrels Learns to Hear Music Again

Many cochlear implant candidates are more concerned about music than speech. When I learned about Nanette Florian’s passion for helping fellow cochlear implant recipients and those with hearing loss get the best out of music I knew I had to ask her to sit down for an interview.

She started playing the piano and singing when she was five years old. She is a former member of The New Christy Minstrels, she was the standing bass and lead singer during her time with the group.

Eventually, her hearing declined to the point where she stopped playing. That was until she received a cochlear implant 14 years ago.

Today her outreach is through her website Hear Music Again hearmusicagain.org Along with her brother John, who also suffers with a hearing loss, they have two internet radio stations WHMA (Hear Music Again) and WHRA (Hear Rock Again). They are an eclectic mix of genres that were selected not only for the clarity but variety. There is a wide range of rock, blues, and funky soul as well as soft rock and country and classical music.

I will leave it to Nanette to tell her own remarkable story. TRANSCRIPT IS AVAILABLE AT COCHLEARIMPLANTBASICS.COM