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He was just 49. I'm still learning how to navigate life without him, while holding onto all the beautiful memories we shared.\n\nChris gave me so much over the years — one of the greatest gifts was his deep love for music. It was his joy and a way we could always connect even during some of the toughest moments of his illness. The healing he found in music was truly powerful, and your station played a huge part in that.\n\nOne thing that weighed especially heavy on Chris during his cancer battle was seeing children and their families going through the same fight. It broke his heart.\n\nIn his honor, could you please dedicate a song to all the young ones out there fighting the good fight? You are not alone! 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My former co-worker and friend just got diagnosed with a rare nerve cancer recently, and my heart aches for her. When we used to work together, she'd talk extensively about her love for Björk. Can you play any song from Björk for my dear friend Yadi? 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My Dad had died of lung cancer years before due to smoking his whole life.  That was hard but predated my KCMU days.  Shuttling back and forth to my Mom's hospital in Sacramento and all the stress of watching her go down then having deal with selling her condo and all its contents was very rough but KEXP was always in my ear comforting me.\n\nPlease throw Nada Surf's Always Love into the mix. 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Dad was 60 years old when he passed back in 1990 and being a lifelong smoker and high functioning alcoholic it was almost written in the Stars. To say the least we had a very difficult relationship.\nOne great thing I got from him was my love for Hank Williams.\nCould you play Hank's I Saw the Light in memory of my Dad ?\nI love my friends at the Station for days like this Very Cathartic!","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"trackplay"},{"id":3542962,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3542962/?format=json","airdate":"2025-08-21T17:25:49-07:00","show":64349,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64349/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","comment":"Music Heals: Beyond Cancer, a day dedicated to the power of music to lift our spirits and heal our souls in the face of cancer.\n\nEvery person’s experience with cancer is unique - but the thing that binds us together today is the power of music.","location":1,"location_name":"Default","play_type":"airbreak"},{"id":3542960,"uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/plays/3542960/?format=json","airdate":"2025-08-21T17:21:21-07:00","show":64349,"show_uri":"https://api.kexp.org/v2/shows/64349/?format=json","image_uri":"","thumbnail_uri":"","song":"We Are People","track_id":null,"recording_id":null,"artist":"Empire of the Sun","artist_ids":[],"album":"Walking on a Dream","release_id":null,"release_group_id":null,"labels":["Capitol Records"],"label_ids":["abea2d3e-eabf-4480-ab24-9382dd642c73"],"release_date":"2008-09-20","rotation_status":null,"is_local":false,"is_request":false,"is_live":false,"comment":"Ronan in Greenlake: \n\nHearing everyone’s stories has inspired me to share my recent battle with cancer. 4 months ago they found a large mass growing on the back of my femur which turned out to be bone cancer. A month and a half later I endured a 13 hour surgery in which they successfully removed the mass and replaced the void with donor bone from my lower leg. I was incredibly fortunate and the cancerous cells had not yet spread to the rest of my body. Last weeks tests looked good and I was recently granted permission to put a fraction of my weight on that leg. I have spent the day listening to others moving stories that have helped me process emotions that I didn’t know I was feeling. 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