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Music Trivia -> Performers with Handicaps -> Index
Handicaps? Hardly, more like handicapable. These performers still make great music even if they are missing one of the senses or a body part.
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Colin James: Injuries from a motor vehicle accident
Colin James was involved in a motor vehicle accident while on tour in the US. he spent 5 days in the hospital and had to cancel the rest of his tour so that he could recover.
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Kim Mitchell: Heart Attack
Kim Mitchell had a heart attack in January 2016 and had to have emergency surgery.
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Rik Emmett: Prostate Cancer
Triumph vocalist and guitarist Rik Emmett had a bout with prostate cancer
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Malcolm Young: Dementia
Malcolm Young left AC/DC in 2014 to be treated for dementia; and a few months later, it was announced that he would be retiring.
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Brian Johnson: Hearing Loss
In 2016, while on AC/DC's Rock or Bust tour, Brian Johnson was diagnosed with hearing loss in which he calls “the darkest day of my professional life.” He couldn't continue with the band for the rest of the tour, and he was replaced by Axl Rose.
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Celine Dion: Stiff-person syndrome
Dion formally announced that she suffers from a rare neurological disease in 2022, which accounted for "severe and persistent muscle spasms" preventing Dion from performing onstage. She did state in a 2024 interview for The Today Show that she will continue to perform by the best of her abilities even if it meant crawling her way through the stage.
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Mandy Harvey: Deafness
She shows that, you can still make good music despite not being able to hear it at all.
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Bono: Congenital heart defect
He was born missing a valve so he’s lucky that he survived until 2016 without needing surgery.
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Steve Caballero: Scoliosis
The guitarist for The Faction, Odd Man Out and Urethane and skateboarding legend was born with scoliosis, causing his head to tilt slightly toward his right due to his bending spine. This apparently did not impair his skills on both the skateboard and in his career as a punk musician.
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Lewis Capaldi: Tourette syndrome
It's a neurological condition that causes involuntary tics, and I don't know enough about it to say anything else.
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Dolly Parton: Endometriosis
It's a very painful condition that causes the lining of the uterus to grow on other organs in your body so she had a partial hysterectomy and therefore, can't get pregnant.
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Roberta Flack: ALS
It's a terrible progressive nerve disease that takes someone's ability to walk, talk and even breathe on their own but it leaves the intellectual capabilities completely unaffected.
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Neil Young: Red - green colourblind
It's apparently affected his painting hobby, so he needs to ask his friends to make sure the colours don't clash.
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Ozzy Osbourne: Dyslexia
This accounted for him dropping out of school in his teens as said condition sadly wasn't treated as well as it is today. It also necessitated him to have his memoirs written on his behalf by a co-author.
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Mitch Ryder: Various throat ailments
He had surgeries on his throat, which forced him to quit the music industry until 1983.
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Larry Carlton: Nerve damage that resulted from a shooting
The jazz guitarist also lost one of his vocal cords and feared for his career. Luckily, he is still playing today.
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Tony Bennett: Alzheimer's disease
He got diagnosed in 2016, so it must be rough on his family. I know how dealing with a family member with dementia is because my grandma is currently living with it.
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Bruce Springsteen: Depression
He talks about it in his book called Born To Run and given that he's said his dad also had it and mental illness is partially genetic, it's not really surprising
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Stevie Wonder: Blindness
He has been blind since infancy, but he wasn't born blind. However, he was born premature so he become blind due to being given too much oxygen in the incubator
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