My Amazing husband did this
He created the music and the artwork...everything. I'd be soooo grateful if you would listen/like/follow...
https://open.spotify.com/album/6DrG6eOXPqCWW3MR9osdVO
Sorry, sorry, sorry if I’m breaking any rules. I’m so heart-breakingly-hyper-happy-proud.
EXPLANATION BELOW:
So… Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis ‘tries’ to screw over my husband with full-on body/mind/soul assault.
Result: Impaired mobility, cognition, motor-function, muscle-control, vision, speech etc. …. Mental illness, hallucinations, extreme fatigue & soooo much pain!
He's super-skilled, but can't work anymore. Classically-trained musician, but can't play any more.
Medical Response: NEGATIVE.
Bad reaction to all treatments. No relief from bucketloads of prescription drugs.
Life response: POSITIVE. Counterattack...purpose and (some)pain relief from creating electronic music...and rapping. It's an unusual therapeutic avenue for a 60+ years old, "middle-class white guy" (I'm highlighting stereotypes for statistical significance & dramatic effect...I do not mean to offend anyone. I'm a mixed-race Radical Love devotee...'can't see how *aspiring to love everyone can do anything other than create magic! *I am aspiring, honestly, trying hard. Failing often, but always trying!) with facial numbness who's in termittently non-verbal. But ...life is crazy and his music has brought him back from a scarily-dark place!
(No toxic-positivity-Pollyanna-ing going on here. He's neither cured nor pain-free. No need to mention the living-Hell he’s fought through to get to this point, because you guys already know about that.)
Below is my husband’s pitch to Spotify (his own words):
Track - Sick
“I'm an artist with Secondary Progressive Multiple Sclerosis. I wrote the lyrics and they are actually based on the process of creating the song so it is very meta in its construction. I use any available and accessible technology to help me. My aim is to show what disabled musicians can be capable of using AI, samples, beats, electronic, and accessible props to help compose. All the production I did myself. Conscious Hip Hop and Alt Hip Hop are the genres I choose to get my message across.”
https://open.spotify.com/album/6DrG6eOXPqCWW3MR9osdVO