My Story

After enduring such a difficult illness Viral Meningitis and told by her doctors that she would most likely not be able to return back to work, Lynette a,k,a, Stebani Cruz look to writing and poetry a gift her mother also had to help her recovery process. One evening while crafting a poem that later become a song Lynette asked her family after the loss of her mother if she could use their mothers name to release artistic material. Alas, under the heading "By Stebani Cruz" there has always been an artistic side to me” says the artist Stebani Cruz. “No matter what you dream, life has a way of changing your course and it isn’t until something catches your eye and gets you back on track and returns you to your passion.” Cruz had no idea that her new found passion would come from music. Her career path found a new direction in 2008 as a result of the illness, which caused brain swelling and severe memory loss. Told she also had a 2 brain aneurysms and a 40 percent chance of survival, she fought back. “I lost my walking and motor skills and was bedridden and handicapped for almost an entire year,” she says. “But I wasn’t going to give up.” Music became a a path of expression during these difficult times.