POP star Elin Fflur has joined the Chronicle’s Child of the Year Emyr Jones in the fight against heart disease.
The Llanfairpwll singer was inspired to support the British Heart Found Cymru Red 4 Heart campaign after hearing about the four year old’s recovery from open heart surgery.
“Emyr's story is so inspiring - he's only four years old, and yet he's faced more in those four years than most of us have had to face in a lifetime,” she said.
“The fact that he is now living the life of any other normal four year old shows that the money we donate does make a real difference to people's lives."
Elin is working on a song about Emyr in support of the charity and encouraged Anglesey and Gwynedd residents to take part in red-themed sponsored events.
Emyr, of Aberffraw, was diagnosed with a congenital heart defect when only a few days old. At three and a half months old he underwent open chest surgery to fit a FloWatch band around his pulmonary artery.
He returned in January for further open heart surgery to carry out a full biventricular repair. Doctors expect him to make a full recovery.
Emyr’s mother Karen Hughes was delighted that Elin will compose a song about her son.
“It’s a real honour that a popular singer like Elin has written a song about Emyr,” she said.
“He will be over the moon when I tell him.”
BHF Cymru is running appeals across north Wales to fund specialist heart nurses.
They currently fund 11 nurses in the region and have helped provide 40 life saving defibrillators and 11 ECG machines in north Wales.