University Cycle Completed
Piano performance · Conservatoire de musique de Montréal
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Resilience & purpose
Beyond the stage
When pain didn't silence the piano.
Kris was born with sickle cell disease. Throughout childhood, urgent medical care, hospital stays, recovery periods, and missed school repeatedly interrupted everyday life. Piano became a place of continuity—a discipline he could return to even when his health demanded rest.
His perseverance helped inspire Keys of Hope, RefugeRoot's free music-education program for vulnerable children in Togo and Benin. The project gives children access to instruments, caring teachers, and a creative space where confidence, discipline, resilience, and joy can grow.