Music Trivia -> Performers with Handicaps -> A

Handicaps? Hardly, more like handicapable. These performers still make great music even if they are missing one of the senses or a body part.

A.J. McLean: Depression and Anxiety
When A.J. checked himself in to treatment for substance abuse he was diagnosed with depression and anxiety.
Celeste
Aaron Solowoniuk: Multiple Sclerosis
Aaron is the drummer for the band Billy Talent. After he found out he had MS, doctors told him he would not be able to play in the band anymore. He refused to give up and still plays with the band now, although he needs to inject himself with medicine three times a day.
TBuck
Alanis Morissette: Anorexia and Bulimia Nervosa
From 14 to 18.
Rocky Mak
Anastacia: Breast Cancer
She found out she had breast cancer on a pre-breast-reduction mammogram. She was supposed to to that to ease her back pain.
Rocky Mak
Glaucoma
Bob
Andrea Bocelli: Blindness
NOT caused by glaucoma, but a football (soccer) accident at 12.
Rocky Mak
Andy Partridge: severe stagefright
this condition struck him in the 80s and that's when his band XTC stopped tourring altogether.
StarRocker
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.
She

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