Candy Coburn Is A Pink Warrior

Audra Lowe: In support of Breast Cancer Awareness Month, we’ve been telling
you stories of survivors and also showing you ways that you can
help in the fight against the disease, Well, today we want you to
meet a singer who heard the battle call and is helping make a
difference one download at a time. Lesley introduces us to her in
today’s Better Spotlight.

Lesley Nagy: Thanks Audra. I'm here with country music singer Candy Coburn.
Welcome to Better.

Candy Coburn: Thank you so much for having us.

Lesley Nagy: Now, you're dedicating your talents to fight breast cancer with
your single Pink Warrior. So, what was your inspiration for that
song?

Candy Coburn: My grandmother fought breast cancer for almost ten years of her
life. She is a great inspiration to me and I wanted to write a fighter
song for all the families going through this and future families so
some good friends of mine got together in Nashville and we put it
together for this new record I have out and Komen heard the song,
they liked it and wanted to be the theme song and also asked me to
be an ambassador out of my tour to raise awareness so it’s been a
wonderful experience. It’s a great, great highlight of my career.

Lesley Nagy: That’s amazing actually and proceeds are going to benefit Susan
G. Komen for the Cure so how can people get it?

Candy Coburn: They can get it at iTunes also at my website which is just
Candycoburn.com and every single penny of profit goes to Komen
to In Breast Cancer Forever.

Lesley Nagy: And sounds like that grandma really influenced you and your other
grandma, you said, brought music into your life?

Candy Coburn: Oh yeah. She belts it out still every Sunday. And her name was --
actually my other grandmother is Marie D. Tucker passed and my
grandmother Loma is still singing it every week and taught me
how to sing from very small so she really taught the love of music
and the other one is just a wonderful woman, too.

Lesley Nagy: You know it’s amazing how family really makes you who you are.

Candy Coburn: Totally, yeah.

Lesley Nagy: Are you having a good time on your tour?

Candy Coburn: We got a tour right after this and we’ve been on both coasts so
we’re doing the entire tour for the 15 cities for three-day walk for
the cure for Komen. And, it’s taking us from Boston all the way up
to Seattle. We’re going to end up in San Diego in a few weeks so
it’s been a great year and I'm just loving my job.

Lesley Nagy: Well, we’re so happy that you're doing this and really bringing the
message out there for families. It’s touched so many families
already including me personally because my mother is a breast
cancer survivor so I thank you and I'm looking forward to you
playing Pink Warrior for us in just one minute but right now, we
got to go back in the studio, Audra.

Audra Lowe: All right, well, since 1982, Susan G. Komen for the Cure has
raised 1.5 billion dollars in the fight against breast cancer.

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And, we’re hitting things up in the kitchen with celebrity chef
Rocco DiSpirito. We love that man so much. I'm Audra Lowe.
You can follow me on Twitter at BTVHostAudra. Now, here’s
Candy Coburn singing Pink Warrior and remember that all the
proceeds from the download of this song go to fighting breast
cancer. Thanks for watching.

[Candy Coburn singing Pink Warrior]