by Ryan Meehan

American singer Marlana VanHoose was born with Cytomeglo Virus (CMV), and by the time she was a few weeks old it was discovered that she was blind. Her optic nerve never formed, and she was not expected to live past one year. But God knew better, as he had special plans for Marlana. After she turned a year old her body healed from the virus and that is when it all began. Marlana was humming “Jesus loves me” before she talked and by the time she was two years old she taught herself to play the piano. Marlana is a member of the Artist Music Guild where she was the 2012 recipient for New Artist of the Year and Young Artist of the Year, and she also was a 2013 nominee for Artist of the Year. Marlana sung the National Anthem at a University of Kentucky Women’s Basketball game in…