Any Courtney in your team?
Courtney sits on her bed. It is midnight but she is not able to sleep. An adventure is about to start for her, one of those dreams that rarely come true. Dreams that are even more difficult to achieve for somebody born in Hesleden, an English town whose Wikipedia description is as succinct as “It has a village shop, which includes post office, off licence and lottery terminal”. Courtney’s life is music and she is so persuasive in her pursuit that the whole family is on board to support her in this journey, a crazy one. She is just 13. The alarm clock is set for quite early. There is no school for Courtney tomorrow. She will travel just with her dad. Her siblings, mum and grandad (who sponsors the trip) stay behind. Just a couple of cars and three planes between her and the set of America Got Talent where she will have a 3 minutes audition. And then, two days after, this happens as she performs Hard to Handle – Otis Redding ( watch the first sixty seconds, pause the video, and then...