When dancer Auti Angel was 22 and on the verge of signing a record deal, a car accident nearly stole her show-business dream. "A car clipped the front end of my car and I lost control," she says. "I went spinning, hit the center divider head-on... the impact made me snap my back in half and I severed my spinal cord completely and I became paralyzed from the waist down instantly." Later, she reapproached the record company.