Music Trivia -> Performers with Handicaps -> Latest Entries
Handicaps? Hardly, more like handicapable. These performers still make great music even if they are missing one of the senses or a body part.
The 20 most recent entries are listed below. There are 123 entries in this section.
Bill Kaulitz: Bulimia
Rachel Nizinski
Gene Vincent: leg injury
He broke and nearly lost his leg in a motorcycle accident. He would reinjure that leg and do further damage to it in a limo crash in England that killed singer Eddie Cochrane and injured singer Sharon Sheeley.
Barry Disbrow
Frankie Valli: hearing problems
He has had surgeries on his ears in order to restore some of his lost hearing.
Barry Disbrow
Sandy Nelson: amputation of lower leg
He lost part of his leg in a motorcycle accident. He was able to resume his career after being fitted with an artificial lower leg.
Barry Disbrow
Tony Melendez: No Hands
Latinamerican Guy Who Managed To Play The Guitar With His Feeth
The Un4Given 23
Brad Wilk: Diabetes
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Michael McCary: Scoliosis
Michael had left Boyz II Men in 2003 due to on going back pain caused by scoliosis (a very severe curve in his spine.)
Celeste
Jim Pike: lost voice
For approximately ten years, starting in the mid 1970's, he was able to communicate with his wife by writing notes on paper. He eventually regained his voice and resumed his singing career. He originally sang with the Lettermen until he lost his voice. After his voice returned, he sang with the New Four Preps and presently is a member of reunion along with another former Lettermen member and one other singer.
Barry Disbrow
Joe Long: partially crippled left hand
An industrial accident to his left hand forced him to give up his serious music training on the stringed bass which could only be played right handed. He was able to learn to play the bass guitar left handed by using his good right hand to form the notes on the guitar's fingerboard and was able to pluck the strings with his bad left hand. He was the Four Seasons' bass player from 1965-1975.
Barry Disbrow
Jacoby Shaddix: Self-mutilation
He admits that he has intentionally hurt himself like the incident where he fought a garbage can.
Travis
Andy Partridge: severe stagefright
this condition struck him in the 80s and that's when his band XTC stopped tourring altogether.
StarRocker
John Cougar Mellencamp: spinal bifida
he had surgery for that condition when he was a little kid
StarRocker
Ray Davies: bipolar disorder
Ray Davies of the Kinks has manic depression. Some of the Kinks' lyrics reflect paranoia, alienation and other symptoms of bipolar. He's good at writing about these issues because he's been there, he's lived thru it all.
StarRocker
Mick Mars: Ankylosing Spondylitis.
It increasingly impairs his movement and has caused him great pain through his life.
Travis
Justin Furstenfeld: Bipolar Disorder
The lead singer of Blue October has suffered from depression and has been put in a mental institution on several occasions.
Travis
Chris Stein of Blondie: Pemphigis Vulgaris
Blondie's guitarist and Deborah Harry's boyfriend contracted this rare skin disease that he almost died of. Blondie broke up in 1982, and Harry took care of Stein until he recovered.
rocky
Brian Wilson: deaf in one ear
Barry Disbrow
Annette Funicello: Multiple Sclerosis
She had symptoms as early as 1987, but kept it a secret for many years. She went public with the disease in 1992 after rumors surfaced which said that she was an alcoholic.
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Donna Fargo: Multiple Sclerosis
She was diagnosed with the disease in 1979, which resulted in her decline in her career and public appearances. Yet she has recorded sporadically since.
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| Celeste (site rank #12) | 9 |
| Raphael (site rank #10) | 8 |
| TBuck | 7 |
| Barry Disbrow | 6 |
| crazydon (site rank #13) | 5 |
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