Congratulating Purple Songs Can Fly on its receipt of an Arts Create grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.

89(R) HR 776 - Enrolled version - Bill Text

H.R. No. 776

R E S O L U T I O N

WHEREAS, Purple Songs Can Fly was recently awarded a $10,000

Arts Create grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts; and

WHEREAS, Founded in 2006 by executive director Anita Kruse,

Purple Songs Can Fly is a nonprofit Houston-based organization that

provides a musical outlet for children being treated for cancer and

blood disorders at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers;

in this unique program, the patients and their siblings work with

professional singer-songwriters in an in-hospital recording studio

to write and record their original songs; and

WHEREAS, Among the group's many initiatives are

collaborations with VoiceAmerica Kids Network and members of the

Houston Symphony; in addition, CDs of the children's songs have

been taken across the globe and into outer space, with destinations

including the summit of Mount Everest, the undersea site of the RMS

Titanic
, a world tour with the Rolling Stones, and two space shuttle

missions; moreover, in 2015, the first Purple Songs Can Fly

musical,
Journey To Hope
, was created and performed by six

long-term survivors, and it is now an award-winning documentary;

and

WHEREAS, By inspiring children to express their innermost

thoughts and dreams through music, Purple Songs Can Fly has made a

positive impact on the lives of countless young Texans and their

families, and the funding provided by the Texas Commission on the

Arts will help the organization to continue their important work;

now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED, That the House of Representatives of the 89th Texas

Legislature hereby congratulate Purple Songs Can Fly on its receipt

of an Arts Create grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts and

extend to all those involved with the group sincere best wishes for

the future.

Johnson

______________________________

Speaker of the House

I certify that H.R. No. 776 was adopted by the House on April

17, 2025, by the following vote: Yeas 130, Nays 10, 2 present, not

voting.

______________________________

Chief Clerk of the House