--- title: Taylor Swift Surprises Cancer Patient description: Taylor Swift surprises cancer patient at Boston Children's Hospital, singing, dancing, and playing air hockey with him. canonical: https://time.com/3079471/watch-taylor-swift-sing-dance-and-play-air-hockey-with-a-young-cancer-patient/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-08-04T16:08:59.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:12:10.177Z og:title: Watch Taylor Swift Sing, Dance and Play Air Hockey With a Young Cancer Patient og:description: He says she's his favorite singer og:url: https://time.com/3079471/watch-taylor-swift-sing-dance-and-play-air-hockey-with-a-young-cancer-patient/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Watch Taylor Swift Sing, Dance and Play Air Hockey With a Young Cancer Patient twitter:description: He says she's his favorite singer twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Watch Taylor Swift Sing, Dance and Play Air Hockey With a Young Cancer Patient by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 4, 2014 4:08 PM UTC by [Samantha Grossman](https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/) ## Samantha Grossman Aug 4, 2014 4:08 PM UTC Taylor Swift really, really loves to [surprise people.](http://time.com/62570/taylor-swift-surprising-people/) It’s kind of her _thing_. The latest person she decided to surprise was Jordan Nickerson, a six-year-old who’s currently battling Leukemia. He also happens to be a T-Swift superfan. When Jordan was less than a year old, he was diagnosed with Williams Syndrome, a rare genetic disorder that caused physical and developmental disabilities. He was diagnosed with cancer just a few weeks ago, his family explains on the [Facebook page](https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jordans-Brave-Page/) they set up to document his journey. To try and brighten his day, the singer dropped by Jordan’s room at Boston Children’s Hospital to surprise him with a meet-and-greet: Of course, Tay treated him to a little sing-along session too, asking the boy to sing along with her to “We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together”: And then they played air hockey, which was cute too: Oh, Taylor. Please never stop surprising people. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3079471/watch-taylor-swift-sing-dance-and-play-air-hockey-with-a-young-cancer-patient/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3079471/watch-taylor-swift-sing-dance-and-play-air-hockey-with-a-young-cancer-patient/"},"headline":"Watch Taylor Swift Sing, Dance and Play Air Hockey With a Young Cancer Patient","datePublished":"2014-08-04T16:08:59.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:12:10.177Z","description":"Taylor Swift surprises cancer patient at Boston Children's Hospital, singing, dancing, and playing air hockey with him.","url":"https://time.com/3079471/watch-taylor-swift-sing-dance-and-play-air-hockey-with-a-young-cancer-patient/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Music","Cancer","kids","Taylor Swift","celebrity"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3079471/watch-taylor-swift-sing-dance-and-play-air-hockey-with-a-young-cancer-patient/","name":"Watch Taylor Swift Sing, Dance and Play Air Hockey With a Young Cancer Patient"}}]}] ```