{"id":39846,"date":"2017-08-10T05:40:42","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:40:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=39846"},"modified":"2017-08-10T05:40:42","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T05:40:42","slug":"man-serenades-his-98-year-old-grandma-with-unforgettable-on-her-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/lifestyle\/family\/man-serenades-his-98-year-old-grandma-with-unforgettable-on-her-birthday.html","title":{"rendered":"Man serenades his 98-year-old grandma with ‘Unforgettable’ on her birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Man serenades his 98-year-old grandma with ‘Unforgettable’ on her birthday<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Man serenades his 98-year-old grandma with ‘Unforgettable’ on her birthday:- Grab the tissues. This video of a man serenading his 98-year-old grandmother with the song “Unforgettable” on her birthday is a tearjerker.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ash Ruiz, a singer\/songwriter and a life coach living in Boulder, Colorado, and former member of the band Menudo, posted the video to his Facebook page on Aug. 2, his grandmother’s 98th birthday.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When I was 8 years old she [his grandmother Gina Rosa Offord DiSanto Evangelista Ciasco] taught me how to sing ‘Unforgettable’ by Nat King Cole because it was her favorite song and I was to sing it with her for her birthday every year,” Ruiz said. “Hence a tradition began and throughout the years we would sing ‘My Funny Valentine’ on Valentine’s Day, ‘White Christmas’ during the holidays and of course ‘Unforgettable’ on her birthday.”<\/span><\/p>\n

At the start of the video, Grandma Jean, as Ruiz calls her, asked him for more signing. “I had just sang ‘Sorento’ for her,” he told ABC News.<\/span><\/p>\n

“I have the most precious memories of my Grandma Jean doing everything with a song. It didn’t matter if she was doing laundry or making lasagna, she was always singing and her voice was rich, velvety and beautiful,” he said.<\/span><\/p>\n

Grandma Jean lost her singing voice in her late 80s, he said. But ever since he was a little boy, the tradition of “Unforgettable” was kept, whether by phone or by Skype.<\/span><\/p>\n

“This year was different though, this year she would be turning 98 and I was going to do everything I can to surprise her and that’s what was captured on this video, me surprising my 98-year-old grandmother with her favorite song,” he said. He traveled to visit her in Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n

“When I rewatch it I have no idea how I held it together for so long, I did lose it at the end of the song and what you don’t see is the sweet tears and ‘I love yous’ that followed.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Ruiz, who still performs with Menudo on reunion tours, said he hopes the video inspires people to “hold their loved ones a little bit closer and longer, especially when their years are closer to their first and last breath.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/Lifestyle\/man-serenades-98-year-grandma-unforgettable-birthday\/story?id=49098138<\/span><\/p>\n

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