THE FOLLOWING IS A NEWS-GAZETTE ARTICLE BY JENNIFER BAILEY
Project Success of Vermilion County
ABOVE: Say it with Music’s Randy Gravitt, left, works on the music video with Project Success students.
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DANVILLE — Danville High School students David Moore and Simone Modest hope the music video they’ve been working on this week through the Project Success summer program will make the community take even more notice of gun violence, because it has to end.
Modest and her family were directly impacted by gun violence this past weekend when cousin Aniyah Davis, 18, died in a shooting during a “pop-up party” at Winter Park.
Modest, 15, said she’s been singing for the music video this week and came up with some of the lyrics, which hold extra meaning with the loss of her cousin.
“I wrote the first part, but I couldn’t get the second verse,” she said, adding that she received some help. “And then we just started singing …”
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