After Chris Picco's wife, Ashley, died in her sleep Nov. 8, their son, Lennon, was born at 24 weeks via emergency C-section. As Lennon fought for his life inside of a Southern California NICU, Chris remembered something Ashley had said: Whenever they would listen to music together, the baby would move inside of her.
"I thought, 'I'm going to get my guitar,'" Picco told KABC. "Ashley would want me to sing to my son and play to my son." Picco spent two days by Lennon's side, he said, crying as he sang and played. A friend shot video of Picco singing "Blackbird" by The Beatles, a song Picco loves and hoped "might trigger something" in his baby.
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