Onchan singer/songwriter Katherine Crowe is praising ‘people power’ in her bid to get a Christmas hit.
The terminally ill mother-of-two is thanking those who have got behind a campaign supporting her version of ‘Smile’ with the London Metropolitan Symphony Orchestra.
Raising funds for research into alternative cancer treatments, it's broken into the upper echeleons of download charts on Amazon and itunes.
Katherine’s thrilled with the reaction:

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