{"id":2456040,"date":"2020-03-19T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-20T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/shining-star-shares-song-about-getting-through-problems\/"},"modified":"2020-03-19T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-20T04:48:00","slug":"shining-star-shares-song-about-getting-through-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/shining-star-shares-song-about-getting-through-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Shining Star shares song about getting through problems"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Sophia Forga, 12, stands for a photo at the 2020 Shining Stars Foundation Winter Games in Aspen. The Aspen-Snowmass foundation has offered a variety of long-term, year-round recreational and social programs in Colorado for its Shining Stars fighting pediatric cancer or other life threatening illnesses and their famililes since 2001, according to the Shining Stars website.<\/strong>
Shining Stars Foundation\/courtesy photo<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

On Friday, the Shining Stars Foundation released a video of Sophia Forga, 12, singing a song she wrote earlier this year.<\/p>\n

The song, \u201cDo you have cancer?\u201d was recorded at the Shining Stars Foundation\u2019s 2020 Winter Games in Aspen<\/a> earlier this month. But Forga said she created the song at home in Colorado Springs in January to help people understand that we can all get through our problems, no matter what they are, together.<\/p>\n

Forga said she wrote the song after she\u2019d been bullied at school for not being able to partake in the same activities as other kids, and on the same day she found out the months of chemotherapy treatment she\u2019d gone through hadn\u2019t shrunk the size of her brain tumor.<\/p>\n

\u201cI never planned on having cancer and none of the other kids did either,\u201d Forga said. \u201cI know people don\u2019t understand what we go through, but we all have problems and they\u2019re all different and that doesn\u2019t mean we can\u2019t work through them together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Forga said she\u2019s been singing for about four years but that she\u2019s mostly a writer, often putting her ideas and feelings down on paper as songs and stories.<\/p>\n

She said she\u2019s written another song about being frustrated with her chemo treatments and how they make her feel, but that you can\u2019t let frustration bring you down.<\/p>\n

Forga said she plans to create more videos with her songs to help spread positive messages and to inspire hope in others and in herself.<\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted to make a video for a long time but didn\u2019t have the courage to do it,\u201d Sophia said. \u201cI hope people will see it and know everything\u2019s going to be OK.\u201d<\/p>\n

mvincent@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sophia Forga, 12, stands for a photo at the 2020 Shining Stars Foundation Winter Games in Aspen. The Aspen-Snowmass foundation has offered a variety of long-term, year-round recreational and social programs in Colorado for its Shining Stars fighting pediatric cancer or other life threatening illnesses and their famililes since 2001, according to the Shining Stars […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 09:11:06","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2456040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456040\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}