Lucy, a famous jazz singer, has her own style and life story, so I decided to see one of her performances and interview her for my magazine. I went to a nightclub in New York and watched the stage lights go up. After the band p layed for a while, Lucy came onto the stage in a wheelchair. As she sang, her voice was so powerful and moving that everyone in the room forgot the wheelchair was even there. At 57, Lucy is small and pretty, clever and strong - minded. Raised in California, Lucy began performing in public at the age of 18, when she took a job as a singing waitress at a pizza parlor ( 店 ) . After studying classical music in college, she moved to San Francisco and went on to sing with the San Francisco Opera Chorus . Walking home from rehearsal ( 排练 ) one night when she was 29, she was caught in a shooting event that left her disabled from the waist down. I asked how she dealt with the realization that she'd never walk again, and she said that at first she didn't want to face it. After a year of being upset she tried to kill herself. She was then taken to a hospital for treatment, where she was able to recover. Lucy said she came to understand that the only thing she had lost in this unlucky event wa s the ability to walk. She still had her most valuable thing——her mind. Pointing to her head, she said, “ Everything important is in here. The only real disability in life is losing your mind. ” When I asked if she was angry about what she had lost, she adm itted to being upset sometimes, “ especially when everybody's dancing, because I love to dance. But when that happens I just change myself, so I can focus ( 专注 ) instead on what I can do. ”