Charity 'Sunshine' Tillemann-Dick: Opera singer with transplanted lungs dies
Tillemann-Dick began an intensive training programme at the renowned Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.At age 20 she was diagnosed with idiopathic pulmonary hypertension, a rare disease marked by extreme pressure on the heart with no apparent cause.
The pump, along with the necessary ice packs and auxiliary equipment, weighed about 4lbs , Tillemann-Dick told the BBC. "I had spent a lifetime training my body and my lungs and my voice to work in sync and I knew I would lose all of that," she told the BBC. Her debut album, American Grace, reached no 1 on Billboard's traditional classical charts upon its release in 2014.She was a national spokeswoman for the Pulmonary Hypertension Association, working to raise awareness, increase federal research funding and promote preventative medicine.
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