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Flight 1549 Survivor Makes Sweet Music

February 4, 2009 1:29 PM

We flew out to L.A. last night and it was a fuckin' disaster! Because of a stream of snow in New York, the flight took off seven hours late!

We would have rather had our flight take off on time, and land in the Hudson.

Just kidding!

But the ordeal reminded us of our pleasant chat last week with Emma Sophina, one of the survivors of US Airways flight 1549.

Sophina was a working singer on vacation when she boarded a plane at New York's LaGuardia Airport and ended up in the Hudson River.

Emma left her native Australia for a sight-seeing trip in Manhattan, where she caught The Lion King on Broadway and some jazz at the Village Vanguard. Then she boarded US Airways Flight 1549 to visit some friends in Charlotte, North Carolina.

"I couldn't leave New York because my passport and everything I had went down in the river," she said.

So she called the only person she knew in town, a music producer named Marc Swersky, who urged Sophina to turn her survival story into music. "I was able to get into the studio and record some songs," she said. Her tunes "Wake Up" and "Send Another Prayer" have already garnered some interest from a few labels. (You can check out clips on her MySpace.)

Sophia's ultimate musical goal in singing with Stevie Wonder, of course. "It's going to happen for me. I believe it."

If you will it, it is no dream.