timeline
2005
Purple Songs Can Fly is incorporated
2006
Purple Songs Can Fly records its first song with a child: Simran, Always Remembering
2006
Purple Songs Can Fly is granted 501(c)(3) tax exempt status
2007
Purple Songs Can Fly opens its in-hospital recording studio at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers
2007
Purple Songs Can Fly records its 50th song: Stephanie, Dream
2007
Purple Songs fly on Space Shuttle “Discovery”
2008
Purple Songs Can Fly is featured in The New York Times
2008
Purple Songs Can Fly records its 100th song: Merlyn, Merari & Jeremiah, Summer
2008
Purple Songs fly on Space Shuttle “Endeavor”
2009
Purple Songs summit Mount Everest with Scott Parazynski
2009
Olivia Newton-John performs, "HOPE IS ALWAYS HERE" on Nationally televised Thanksgiving Day Special with six children of Purple Songs Can Fly
2011
Purple Songs Can Fly records its 250th song: Morgan, Strong As Ever
2011
Purple Songs Can Fly creates a portable recording studio allowing songs to be recorded bedside with the in-patient children at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers
2012
Nile Rodgers, Gloria Gaynor, and The Pointer Sisters visit the Purple Songs Can Fly studio
2012
Purple Songs Can Fly launches an online radio show on Voice America Kids Network
2013
Purple Songs Can Fly children perform their song Celebration of Hope at Carnegie Hall, New York
2013
Purple Songs Can Fly records its 500th song: Messalinda, It Took Time
2013
Purple Songs Can Fly opens its new, larger recording studio at Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers
2013
Purple Songs Can Fly partners with the Houston Symphony to provide musical accompaniment to the children's songs
2014
Purple Songs Can Fly adds a second portable recording studio allowing more in-patient children to be reached at their bedsides
2014
Through the generous support of the Sherman Foundation, Purple Songs Can Fly creates year-longl fellowship
2015
Purple Songs Can Fly premieres its first musical Journey to Hope both written and performed by pediatric cancer patients and survivors
2015
Purple Songs Can Fly records its 1,000th song: Purple Song Bird written and recorded by patients and staff of Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Centers
2016
Purple Songs Can Fly is featured on The Little Couple on the TLC Network
2016
Purple Songs Can Fly celebrates its 10th Anniversary
2016
Purple Songs Can Fly launches its songwriting program at Texas Children's Hospital's new West Campus
2016
Purple Songs Can Fly children, Christian and Sophia, perform their song Dreams Can Come True with the Houston Symphony
2016
Purple Songs Can Fly celebrates its 10th Anniversary with a gala at Houston's Hobby Center, featuring a live performance of Journey to Hope
2017
Purple Songs Can Fly opens an in-hospital recording studio at Texas Children's Hospital's West Campus, near Katy, TX
2017
Purple Songs Can Fly releases its first children's book: Purple Song
2017
Purple Songs Can Fly launches its songwriting program at Texas Children's Hospital's new campus in The Woodlands, TX
2018
Purple Songs Can Fly premieres its full-length film documentary, Journey to Hope, at Houston's Hobby Center
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2019
Purple Songs Can Fly records its 2,500th song: Yazan, CWC YouTube
2019
Purple Songs Can Fly releases its first Purple Lullabies compilation CD written and sung by pediatric cancer patients and survivors
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2019
Purple Songs Can Fly Documentary, JOURNEY TO HOPE, wins platinum Remi Award at WORLDFEST HOUSTON International Film Festival
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2019
JOURNEY TO HOPE Documentary wins over 50 Awards and Selections at Film Festivals all over the world
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2020 - 2022
Purple Songwriting and Recording goes remote during the COVID19 pandemic. All songs are written remotely while the studios close to protect the highly immunocompromised environment in the Cancer and Hematology Center
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2021
Purple Songs travel undersea to the Titanic.
In celebration of Purple Songs Can Fly's 15th Anniversary, Scott Parazynski, Astronaut-Physician-Inventor-Explorer, and Meenakshi Wadhwa, Director of the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University and Principal Scientist for the Mars Sample Return Program, traveled over 12,500 feet below sea level, carrying the children's songs on a small fly drive. Purple Songs Can Fly had quite an adventure on the first Titanic Research Mission aboard the OceanGate submersible, Titan.
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2022
Purple Songs Can Fly named Finalist for Compassionate Houston's Artist of the Year
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2022
Purple Songs Can Fly returns to the studios post pandemic
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2023
Purple Songs Can Fly Launches new remote program on the Bone Marrow Transplant Floor, BMTL, Bringing Melodies To Life, with singer/songwriter Tricia Fox Ransom
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2023
Purple Songs Can Fly Establishes new remote program at the Texas Children's Cancer and Hematology Center Vannie Cook Clinic in McAllen, Texas
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2023
The 3,000th Purple Song is written and recorded by Rodrigo, "SUPER RODRIGO"
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2023
Purple Songs Can Fly performs new musical, HOPE CAN HAPPEN, the sequel to JOURNEY TO HOPE
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2023
Purple Songs Can Fly Establishes a Japan Branch in Tokyo
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