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 55 entries in this section.
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
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
Tony Ioami: Finger tips cut off
Tony Ioamy uses finger tip entensions on his fret board had when playing.
Wade Brock
"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.
The Rock Relic
Michael Hutchence: Traffic Accident
In September 1992, Michael Hutchence was in a freak traffic accident. Riding his bicycle home from a nightclub in Copenhagen, he was struck by a car and suffered a fractured skull. No way he punched the cab driver's lights out...and boy, was he angry?!
Mickey D.
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.
Jeff Buckley: Bi-Polar Disorder
Raphael
Brian Wilson: Bi-Polar Disorder
Raphael
Britney Spears: Bi-Polar Disorder
Britney was recently diaganosed as being Bi-Polar which would explain some of her erratic behaviours.
Celeste
Charlie Major: Blind in one eye
He explained that he lost his eye when he was 12 after a friend of his fired off a BB gun and it hit him in his eye.
Celeste
Bedrich Smetana: Deafness
The great Czech composer was deaf during the last 10 years of his life, during which he wrote his famous symphonic poem cycle Ma Vlast.
Todd W. Zimmerman
Peter Schilling: Claustrophobia
This was described in an 1983 Bravo (German music magazine) article about Schilling
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B. B. King: Complications of diabetes
B. B. is said to have foot problems due to long-standing diabetes. He now plays his concerts seated since he is unable to stand for long periods of time.
Martha Hankins
Pete Loeffler: Claustrophobia
Pete (of Chevelle) has mild claustrophobia; the song "the Clincher" is about being buried alive.
BECKER
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
Jerry Garcia: Missing most of Right Middle Finger
was accidentally cut off in a woodcutting accident at a young age.
Ryan
Rex Harrison: Blind in One Eye
Raphael
Georg Philip Telemann: Blindness
Another of the great Baroque composers, Telemann was legally blind for his last years.
Susanna Viljanen
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
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