The original “UNSTOPPABLE,” released by SIA in 2016, has chalked up over a billion streams on SPOTIFY. Its message of empowerment and determination resonates strongly with THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS, whose music-making endeavors continue while they prepare to resettle in America and start a new chapter in 2025.

The group’s founder and director LANNY CORDOLA recalls: “While I was working on a new original song, one of the girls said it reminded her of a song she and the other girls were listening to, which was ‘UNSTOPPABLE.’ I was very familiar with SIA and told the girls about her singing in a group called ZERO 7.”

He continues: “I was impressed that the girls picked up on the similarities of the chord progression. When they asked me if I could contact SIA to do a song, I told them it might be difficult, but they are ‘miraculous’ so anything is possible. I was  pleasantly surprised when SIA agreed to a collaboration.”

Because “UNSTOPPABLE” had such an impact on the girls, they decided to pursue a ‘reimagining” of the song. In the studio, THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS added their personal touch by playing their guitars and singing the choruses with SIA. As it all winds down, each girl of the group expresses her own declaration of empowerment. Considering their dire circumstances and the challenges ahead, it’s an extraordinary life-affirming moment of redemption.

After hearing the reimagination, SIA remarked in a message to the girls: “Thank you so much for singing ‘UNSTOPPABLE’ and for your support. I love you so much. I love you so much. I really feel for what you’re going through.”

Over the last year, some members of THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS and their families have been able to resettle to parts of the United States. Four remaining girls and their families were scheduled to fly out of Pakistan on February 5, 2025, but that came to an abrupt end when PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP signed an executive order to suspend the resettlement program in the U.S. The girls and their families, who have been learning how to assimilate and become self-sufficient, are devastated.

If they are denied the chance to resettle to the United States, the Pakistani government will deport them back to Afghanistan, where music-making females are subject to persecution, imprisonment, and even punishment by death.

“We have faced many trials, tribulations and challenges before and somehow, someway we shall get through this,” LANNY says. “SIA has been a godsend , an angelic presence, and a voice that matches her immaculate spirits. Even when things look bleak, blessings and miracles abound. In the end, THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS are truly ‘Unstoppable.’”

For THE MIRACULOUS LOVE KIDS, the arrival of the Taliban on August 15, 2021, changed everything. The guitar lessons, the recordings, the videos, and the hope for a better life — all gone in a flash.

Their instruments destroyed, their dreams shattered, these post-9/11 children had never experienced the harsh rule of the Taliban in their lifetime. It was a disruption like no other. The fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban continues to resonate and claim new victims. At the end of 2022, the group banned women from working in local and foreign non-governmental organizations (NGOs). No one can say how much worse the oppression against women and girls in the country will get, but it doesn’t look good.

LANNY managed to catch the last commercial flight out of Kabul not knowing what was in store as he had already booked the fare to Pakistan to renew his visa before the Taliban moved in. He immediately went right to work, relentlessly chasing every possibility he could to get his students and their families out of Afghanistan.

“They’re my girls,” he told one reporter. “I’ve been like a father to them. I don’t want to be safe right now. I want to get them out of that place.”