Invergordon’s Brittany Sutton has gone viral online with a song she has written for the CFA following the Yarroweyah fire in January.

After posting the song on Facebook Brittany received 168,000 views in just four days, and has been contacted by several media outlets, including the ABC.

Brittany said the song, Our Heroes, was originally a poem, and she put it into an AI program that transformed it into a song.

Brittany said the inspiration for the poem came from the Yarroweyah fire being “close to home”.

“The fire in Yarroweyah actually started across the road from my grandparents’ place,” she said.

The family were lucky the wind was blowing in the other direction and the house was saved.

“We went for a drive and I was just heartbroken to see some of the houses that were burnt down,” Brittany said.

“But it was just amazing how the CFA had saved some of the houses.

“I went home and I couldn't sleep that night, so I wrote a poem.

“This app (Suno) kept coming up on my Facebook ... so I made it into a song, then made a slide show and put it on Facebook for family and friends.

“It's an AI-generated voice, but it’s my words, it just makes it into a song rather than just a poem.”

The app allows you to turn your words into a song, choosing what style of music and whether it is a male or female voice.

“Within a day or two, they shared it with their friends, and then from there, it went viral pretty quick, with 168,000 views in four days, just on Facebook,” she said.

Brittany was stunned with the response and how quickly her song spread online.

“It was a big shock,” she said.

“I honestly didn’t think that I was going to go viral, I’m not a songwriter or anything.

“I’m someone who, growing up, wouldn’t do anything like that.

“So it’s really cool to come out of my shell and to write a song.

“That was a big, big thing for me.”

Brittany said people she didn’t know had messaged her online thanking her and telling her the song was “amazing”.

“I had the CFA contact me and say ‘thank you so much, this helps us to keep doing what we do’,” she said.

“I’m simply grateful for the chance to honour those who inspire me, the rest has just been an unexpected blessing.

“They put their lives on the line, away from their families, to save the rest of us.”

Brittany said she started writing poetry in 2016 after her grandmother passed away.

“My uncle Peter, who absolutely loves my poetry, brought me a notebook and said that I needed to start writing more,” she said.

“So I don't do it very often, it's only when I feel like I need to put my heart across, so when my grandparents both passed away, I wrote a poem for them and read it out at the funeral.”

Brittany works as a teacher's aide at Numurkah Primary School and said she was not sure if she would create more songs in the future.

“It has definitely made me think about writing a few more appreciation things and trying to put it in a song, but I don’t know,” she said.

“I still don’t see myself out there writing songs, I am enjoying my job here (at Numurkah Primary School), helping the children and getting them to be successful.

“I describe myself as the shyest girl in the room, so this experience has been both surreal and empowering.

“I never believed in myself, I thought I was stuck in this shell, and I was never going to be able to come out...

“I now want to be an inspiration and inspire people to keep having a go.”

You can listen to Brittany’s song Our Heroes on Spotify: tinyurl.com/fjsd5c4n.

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