"I Went Home to Die" - Then Disney Called (with Adassa Candiani)

What happens when a Grammy-winning artist wakes up paralyzed from the neck down the day after auditioning for Disney? Adassa Candiani couldn't walk, couldn't talk, couldn't eat. Doctors had no answers. She went home to die. The next morning, she woke up alive and got the call: she had landed the role of Dolores in Encanto.

In this episode of Why We Believe, host Nathan Gwilliam sits down with the voice behind We Don't Talk About Bruno to hear how premature birth with underdeveloped lungs became Grammy-winning vocals, how her successful reggaeton career led to temple covenants, and why her husband refusing to hang up on a Disney casting director changed everything. Adassa shares what it means to live every day as your last, why your talent isn't yours, and how the Atonement turns backward lives into something better than you could ever create yourself.

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