Music Trivia -> Performers with Handicaps -> J
Handicaps? Hardly, more like handicapable. These performers still make great music even if they are missing one of the senses or a body part.
Jacoby Shaddix: Self-mutilation
He admits that he has intentionally hurt himself like the incident where he fought a garbage can.
Travis
Jeff Buckley: Bi-Polar Disorder
Raphael
Jeff Healey: Blind
He was born with cancer that robbed him of his sight.
crazydon
Jerry Garcia: Lost part of a finger
At age four he had an accident while helping his brother chop wood. Despite missing most of his right middle finger, his guitar playing was very good.
Ra'akone
Jerry Garcia: Missing most of Right Middle Finger
was accidentally cut off in a woodcutting accident at a young age.
Ryan
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
Joacim Cans: Legally blind
Joacim is the lead singer of Sweidsh powert metal band HammerFall.
Chandra
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
John Cougar Mellencamp: spinal bifida
he had surgery for that condition when he was a little kid
StarRocker
John Popper: Partial Heart Attack
It's been a tough year for John Popper. After undergoing an angioplasty procedure to circumvent a potential heart attack, the Blues Traveler frontman suffered the loss of BT bassist/friend Bobby Sheehan. As if that weren't enough, Popper had to deal with the finishing touches of his recently released solo debut, Zygote. Despite the highs and lows -- or perhaps because of them -- Popper maintains a wry sense of humor and insightful perspective.
Mickey D.
Johnny Cash: Altizemers
At the end of his life in 2003 it was reported that Johnny Cash had passed away from Althiemers diseas.
Celeste
Johnny Cash: Shy-Drager's Syndrome
Shy-Drager's syndrome is a neurological syndrome which degenerates the autonomic neural system. On his last years, Johnny Cash suffered from it. Unlike Celeste mentioned, he didn't have Alzheimer's.
Susanna Viljanen
Johnny Cash: Diabetes
Unlike Celeste said, Johnny Cash didn't die from Alzheimer's nor he had it. He died from complications of diabetes. He was intellectually still quite active on his last days, having done his last concert just two months before his death.
Susanna Viljanen
Jonathan Knight: Panic Disorder
Jonathan Knight, the oldest member of the New Kids On The Block, revealed on the Oprah Winfrey show that he suffered from severe panic attacks and anxiety.
Celeste
Jordan Knight: Performance Anxiety
Jordan, unlike his brother Jonathan, suffered from performance anxiety. He says that he read several books on meditation and has learned how to relax before he performs.
Celeste
Julie Andrews: Throat Surgery
Same as Elton John, she had surgery done to remove potentially cancerous nodules from his vocal cords in 1997. But the surgery wasn't a full success, so she was unable to sing in a decade, and even now, she stopped doing musicals. She filed a lawsuit because of this in 1999.
Rocky Mak
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
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