Jacob Karam, quarterback for the Tigers at University of Memphis, visited St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis to give a little girl battling leukemia a moment to sing he heart out.
Karam played the piano accompaniment as 11-year-old Breanna sang the lyrics to Jessie J's "Price Tag." Bercegeay was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia on June 4.
Karam arrived to St. Jude on Monday, a trip that her often made several times this year, according to CBS Sports. After helping the kids at Target House, the long-term living facility at the hospital, with a scavenger hunt, he sat down at the piano with Bercegeay so they could play some tunes.
"This little girl came up to me," Karam told CBS Sports, "and somebody said she wanted to sing. She was very shy, I could tell, and she had the mask on. I asked, 'What's your favorite song?' She said Price Tag. I didn't know how it was going to go, but she started belting it out. I tried to figure it out on the key, started backing her up a little."
"She sang her heart out, and it sounded beautiful," Karam added.
Karam played about 10 to 15 songs with Bercegeay had to leave to eat dinner. Karam hadn't told University he was a volunteer, and didn't tell Bercegeay or her family that he was a football player, but at the end of his visit he decided to invite them to come to a Memphis game.
"He didn't tell us any of that," Dara Bertucci , Bercegay's mother, told CBS Sports. "I think that's what touches me most about the whole night. He wasn't there for himself. He was there for us. He was there for Bree."
Karam told CBS Sports the hospital was a very important place for him.
"I'm part of a big Lebanese-Catholic family," Karam said. "The founder of St. Jude, Danny Thomas, was Lebanese -- and we were raised to support St. Jude. It's almost part of our heritage. When I transferred to Memphis, it was icing on the cake that I could help out at St. Jude."
