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Music Trivia -> Performers with Handicaps -> M
Handicaps? Hardly, more like handicapable. These performers still make great music even if they are missing one of the senses or a body part.
Entries Beginning with M
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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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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Mark Holmes (Platinum Blonde): Dyslexia
On a recent podcast of the Zach Bussey Show, Mark revealed that he's dyslexic and was dreadful at math.
Celeste
Marty Balin: Autism
Marty Balin, Martyn Jerel Buchwald as was, was one of those individuals who achieved what they did without allowing, in his case, his being on the autism spectrum to stop him or hold him back. His autism, for all that has become known to audiences, might even have enhanced his inherent talents!
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Max Bemis: Bipolar Disorder
Max is the lead singer of Say Anything and spoke about his situation in an interview in 2006.
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Meat Loaf: Color Blind
According to his autobiography, Meat Loaf has trouble distinguishing red from green.
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Mel Tillis: Stuttering
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Michael Hutchence: Mild speech impairment
Michael had a slight lisp. It didn't affect his singing. He was known, however, to use that impairment to take the focus off himself, when he was talking to someone else, and put it onto the other person, because he was said to be more interested in learning more about that person than in talking about himself.
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Michael Jackson: Vitiligo
Vitiligo is disease, which causes the skin lose pigment. His grandfather had the same disease as does his sister LaToya
Susanna Viljanen
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
Mick Mars: Ankylosing Spondylitis.
It increasingly impairs his movement and has caused him great pain through his life.
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Mikey Way: Bipolar Disorder
The guitarist of My Chemical Romance had to leave the band for awhile during the recording of their album "The Black Parade" because his depression became so bad.
TBuck
Mitch Ryder: Various throat ailments
He had surgeries on his throat, which forced him to quit the music industry until 1983.
Rock Maninoff
Morrissey: Depression
No surprise there He fought it all throughout his teens and adult years.
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Morrissey: Depression
No surprise there He fought it all throughout his teens and adult years.
Brit Boxx
Moulty Moulton: No Left Hand
Moulty -- famed drummer of SIxties "garage band" The Barbarians -- lost his left hand (to 3" up the wrist) when a homemade bomb exploded in his face at the age of 14. He used a hook for his hand and, with sticks that were notched, played perfectly. His autobiographical song, "Moulty!", inspired thousands of young lives -- even those who were once suicidal -- with its "never give up" theme.
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