Music Trivia -> Performers with Handicaps -> D
Handicaps? Hardly, more like handicapable. These performers still make great music even if they are missing one of the senses or a body part.
Dana International: Transgendered
Dana International, aka Sharon Cohen, was born as Yaron Cohen. She is transgendered and transitioned socially as a woman in her late teens and served in the Israeli army in an all-female unit. She had gender reassignment surgery in London in her early twenties.
Susanna Viljanen
Daniel Johns: Bullemia
Daniel suffered from the eating disorder bullemia. It made doctors and hospitals more aware that men are just as susceptible to eating disorders as women are.
Celeste
Daniel Johnston: Schizophrenia
Agrimorfee
Delta Goodrem: Hodgkin's lymphoma
When she discovered it, she was doing sit-ups and felt something wrong on her neck. The experience cut her promotion for Innocent Eyes and her character to be written off on Neighbours. But it also inspired "Mistaken Identity album".
It is known that her mother is battling breast cancer.
It is known that her mother is battling breast cancer.
Rocky Mak
Diane Shurr: Blindness
Jazz singer and pianist
Jazz
Django Reinhardt: 2 fingers partially paralyzed
Django, the great "gypsy guitarist," was in a fire at 18 and burned his leg + the 4th and 5th fingers of his left hand. He learned to play around them - and with astonishingly quick fingering.
Andrew Nicholls
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.
Country
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