Today, her soothing voice, open heart and love of music have expanded her audience from the folks in Reedsport to nearly nine million weekly listeners. As a single mother of 11 children, eight of whom she adopted, Delilah has established a foundation called Point Hope as a voice for forgotten children everywhere. But while I'm here, I want to be as effective as I can as a mom, as a broadcaster, as a friend.
And so I got to keep moving forward. The One Heart at a Time author and mother of 15 "13 here and a couple in heaven," she explains continues, "I can't stop living just because they did. I have to keep moving forward to be the best person that I can be. And so that's what I do every day. Every day I thank God that they're safe with him. Every day I thank God that they're not hurting.
That the boys are not in pain. That they're in paradise, and that one day we'll all be there. Delilah's children range in age from 7 to Three are biological and 10 were adopted from foster care or Ghana.
Her granddaughter, Penny, is two. She lost one child, her son Sammy, in Heading out for a day trip with the hubby! Though she often doles out relationship advice along with her intuitive song picks for callers, she's forthright about the fact that she's been married four times.
Approximately 8 million people tune into Delilah each week, more than Steve Harvey's morning program 6 million and almost twice as many people as Ryan Seacrest's American Top My boy Junior is almost too big to pick up, but is still such a love. Delilah goat snuggle love farm farmLife. Delilah's Port Orchard, Washington, homestead houses 21 goats, nine horses, seven dogs, five sheep, and a zebra, according to BuzzFeed.
She grows and cans her own vegetables and also raises cows. In , Delilah had the most listeners of all the DJs at her station. A consultant the station brought in to improve its daytime ratings said Delilah was "overshadowing" her counterparts, and recommended firing her. The year-old radio personality keeps her eight to 10 million weekly listeners tuning in night after night because of her natural gift for pairing long distance therapy sessions with sappy love songs.
Sappy alright. In fact, the radio personality nicknamed herself the " Queen of Sappy Love Songs. She also owns her own past, which she shares with her audience night after night. Being so open and honest about her own struggles is part of what makes her incredibly popular. Here, she opens up. SL: Where did you get your passion for music? Delilah: Everyone in my family got the musical gene—except for me!
My dad played lead guitar in a country Western band, "Country Velvet. My mom had a beautiful voice, and a few years ago I saw a newspaper clipping of my dad singing in a quartet when he was a teenager! They both had lovely singing voices.
My older brother Matt played several instruments, and my younger two siblings can sing as well. I write lyrics and music, I just can't sing the songs I write. Unless it's to my kids!
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