The Alzheimer’s patient had apparently been unresponsive for two weeks, John Germann said.
Then, the day he and Richard Nayson sang at the health-care facility where she lived, the woman immediately perked up and sang along.
The two men, Nayson, 63, of LaFayette, Ga., and Germann, 70, of Chattanooga, sing weekly at area nursing homes, assisted-living facilities and Alzheimer’s disease units.
Nayson said his 40 or so engagements a month are both his living and a ministry.
“Music and performances have been a big part of life,” he said. “I’ve developed a way of having rapport with folks. I’ve been blessed. I’ve turned it into a real ministry.”