Sharon tunes in with good vibrations for future fans
SINGER Sharon Corr performed for a room full of embryos at a fertility clinic yesterday.
Sharon, who is best known as a member of The Corrs, played alongside Basque musician Alex Ubago to her developing audience.
Dressed in green scrubs and a colourful hair cap, the 84-year-old Dundalk woman played the violin and sang for an audience of hundreds of embryos in incubators at Institut Marques fertility centre in Barcelona.
The clinic hosted the performance following research which suggested that vibrations from music increases the likelihood of successful IVF treatment by up to 5%, as well as supporting the development of the embryo.
The show was also streamed live to other fertility centres elsewhere in Europe, including here, and potential parents could tune in to listen to the music alongside their potential future offspring. On her Instagram account, the musician wrote in Spanish that the performance had been ‘incredible’ and ‘moving’.
‘I never thought that it was a crazy idea because I know that music has always been therapy’, she said. ‘I believe it can cure, it’s something very basic, very deep. The rhythm of the earth is also music’.
Sharon went on to describe the experience as like ‘having butterflies in your stomach’ and added she hoped one day to meet her unborn listeners.