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Wendy Moten's Incredible Journey: The Story Behind 'Don't Give Up' | Mick Unplugged

Name: Wendy Moten's Incredible Journey: The Story Behind 'Don't Give Up' | Mick Unplugged
Uploaded: 2025-11-13T19:19:43.691706
Duration: 53 s
Channel: Mick Hunt
Description: Wendy Moten says "Don't Give Up" was written in 2009 with co-writer David Santos while they were touring musicians; the song became her first explicitly…

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Wendy Moten says "Don't Give Up" was written in 2009 with co-writer David Santos while they were touring musicians; the song became her first explicitly personal testimony when she later released it. She recounts falling on the set of The Voice, breaking both arms, undergoing surgery, and completing the last three weeks of The Voice performing with two broken arms while rating her pain at a level three—making the song's message literal and deeply personal.

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2009.

David Santos.

She fell on the set and broke both her arms.

She completed the last three weeks of The Voice with two broken arms.

Her pain level stayed at three.

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Oh, Don't Give up was actually written about in 2009 with David Santos and myself, and I think we both were touring musicians, and maybe we wrote it to encourage ourselves to keep staying in the music game, but it wasn't ready to be released. I don't think I lived enough to make that song. You know, I like being the messenger when I sing, and I like to get self out of the way. This is the first song that's ever been a personal testimony. When I knew it was time to release it, I had something to talk about. I stayed in the music business way beyond time. And then the Voice was already a mirror miracle. And then falling on the Voice and getting back up. Did you know I fell on the Voice? No. I fell, broke both my arms was on the set the next day, and I never cried that whole time until, like, after surgery. But I did the last three weeks of the Voice with two broken arms, and my pain level stayed at three. So that song, don't give up, it meant a lot more to me because I was living it literally.