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Congenital Heart Defect survivor, Mark O'SHEA, incorporates HeartKids in the duo's new music video for their hit song, "Thank You Angels".

Stream it here: https://lnk.to/OSheaAW

Get the story behind the song here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtwQk6JaOyY

* "Thank You Angels" is the second single from the new O'SHEA album 'One + One'.
* 'One + One' was released January 18, debuting at #24 on the ARIA all-genre chart & #3 on Country, marking the highest chart placing to date for the Nashville based, Aussie born, husband-and-wife duo.
"Thank You Angels" is the theme song to HeartKids Queensland's 2013 Awareness campaign and the song features in their current TV campaign.
* Mark & Jay O'Shea became ambassadors of the HeartKids Queensland in 2012. It is a very personal issue for the pair as Mark is himself a HeartKid having had his first surgery at the age of 6 months and again in 2010.
* It is a little known fact that Childhood Heart Disease ("CHD") is one of the leading causes of infant death (under one) in Australia. 6 children each day are born with heart defects and each week 4 Australians will die from CHD.
* HeartKids works to raise awareness of CHD, and practically support those affected by it.
February is Awareness Month and Thursday 14 February is International Child Heart Disease Awareness Day.
* The music video, directed by four time CMAA Golden Guitar Award winner Duncan Toombs, includes footage of HeartKids along with a host of every day heroes, the people to which the song says "thanks" for being there in times of need.
* O'Shea are nearing the end of a hugely successful run of dates supporting Sir Cliff Richard on his sold-out Australian tour. The pair will head to the CMC Rocks The Hunter festival in March where they will co-host the Country Music Channel's coverage of the event before returning to Nashville to have their second child. O'Shea will return to Australia in the second half of 2013 for more touring.

Links:
Website: www.therealoshea.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/therealoshea
Twitter: www.twitter.com/therealoshea

HeartKids QLD: www.heartkidsqld.org.au

Tim Archer & Reuben Ennor - NSW POLICE FORCE
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