THE miracle of song has changed the life of a Dartmouth woman after her son came face-to-face with death.

And now her story might be shared by audiences nationwide after she has been selected to audition for the BBC television competition The Voice.

Sally Slight says she was given a beautiful singing voice after she prayed for God to save the life of her eldest boy, George.

The then 10-year-old had suffered a massive electric shock and was badly burned after catching hold of a power cable while climbing a tree.

Now 23 and fully recovered, he was rushed to the Queen Victoria Hospital in Kent where Sally remembers his heart monitor flatlining as he lay in bed.

'I screamed "Lord take me",' she said. 'The monitor came back up again and I knew that God had been gentle with me.

'Now I sing every day to say thank you for saving my son. It is a song for life and if I stop it is as if he might be taken away again.'

Sally, a 51-year-old mum of two, is being given the chance to share her God-given gift at auditions for The Voice at a hotel in London, on Friday, July 10.

'Something spoke to me in church that I should apply to go on the programme,' said Sally, who worships at St Saviour's in Dartmouth, where she has sung in the choir.

Sally, who lives in Townstal and is a toll collector on the Dartmouth Higher Ferry, said her training as a yoga teacher had helped to release her true inner voice.

'I used to sing in a heavy metal band called Sweet Sixteen but I was useless,' she said.

'After the hospital experience, I kept hearing all this classical music in my head, saying sing what you hear.

'I can't read music and it's taken me all this time to know what to do with this voice.

'But I see now that there is a reason for it and I have to do this and I am peaceful about it.'

Sally describes her singing as religious-based classical, without the lyrics.

She said she was not nervous about the audition because, she added: 'It's not about the words, it's the voice. I'm like a musical instrument.

'God has given me this voice and I'm singing His glory.'