Musicians With Disablities

SHOWCASE OF MUSICIANS WITH DISABILITIES

The Future of Music is not what it used to be - for musicians with disabilities

CARPEL TUNNEL DANGERS - BACK STAGE - FUTURE LINK MY SPACE -
- ORIGINS OF FUTURE LINK - MUSIC & SOUND HEALING - FUTUREOFMUSIC@GMAIL.COM

Jeff Moyer a 21st century renaissance man who works as guitarist, songwriter, author, producer, public speaker, historian and advocate for human rights is blind.

Santa Monica based Sam Morris is a singer/songwriter hailing from a blueberry farm in Maine. At 24, Sam’s life would change forever. Two months after leading a 4,000 mile bike trip for teens, Sam was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident caused by a drunk driver.

PROFESSIR X- DJ - Rapper - Video Editor - Advocate - Quad. Richard has founded an non-profit organization called the I Believe Organization whose purpose is to promote awareness of the research being done and currently needed to help cure the diseases and conditions that affect him, and so many others.

Tobias Forrest is an artist, an actor and the singer in the Los Angeles based funk/rock band Cityzen - Tobias has had a guest starring role on “Weeds”

Tulio Fuzato' Drummer Lead Voice Mr. Dudé

Thank God I've had a lot of help on everything. It's a slow process; there's no reason to hurry up but there's a lot of anxiety. It's a daily fight for physical and spiritual improvement that will be carried over till the last day of my life on the earthly plane and later into the spiritual land.
-Tulio
For me and for Tulio have the opportunity to tell our story to other people in another countries is something that will give more shine to our cause for the rights of the disabled here in Brazil. And that God bless the great masters of the art of life: people with physical disabilities and do not fear the barriers or challenges. -Mr. Dudé

Daddy Antonga was among the first drummers in Argentina to play irregular patterns along with a unique free style. Now a paraplegic - quit drumming for many years - he has returned to drumming. MORE Laurence Amery - Deafness -By the time I was 27 I was missing a lot of conversations and starting to avoid some situations... couldn't make out much of the dialogue... didn't matter because night after night I was out with a band, gigging, with the drums ringing in my ears all the way home. MORE

André Fontanelli - Paraplegic Bassplayer from Brazil "No matter what the difficulty, we all have our limitations, but with a little determination & strength of will we can have everything we want!" Chris Cox - In March 2006 Chris’ life changed. Diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis. In terrible pain, with damage to his hands and feet, music was the last thought on his mind. Chris’ guitar case didn’t open for nearly a year.

Derek Mortland whose life was changed dramatically due to a paralyzing semi-pro motorcycle accident in 1997; relearned guitar and broke through new musical barriers...“I had to totally re-learn how to do many things we generally take for granted.” New CD "SKETCHES IN TIME"
Swane - Artist/Songwriter -
Has been a disabled artist since 1998 when a blockage in his throat led to having a permanent tracheotomy tube inserted.

Miss Money: Musician - Rap, R&B Gospel DJ Urban music producer. Muscular dystrophy. Miss Money has been featured here a year ago but you HAVE to check out her new site and new music. Tracy Marie has had both hips replaced... On a normal day, though, she has problems standing for more than 5-10 minutes before pain sets in because of the dysplasia and osteoarthritis.

Chazz deMeyer - A disabled musician (spinal chord) for over thirty years, and for the life of me I do not know why it took so many years to seek others in a similar condition. After all this time I have finally gotten around to writing and singing about it. I have a new CD (Recovery) and a new book (The Fire Within) recently released. Rob Da Noize Temple Musician Keyboards Producer is Noizemozis with John MoSis Miller: Rob has Erbs Palsy limiting him to the use of only one arm. Genre: R&B, Hip Hop.

FLAME, a group from upstate New York made up of 11 people with developmental/physical disabilities, is capturing the world’s attention wants to change the world through music.

Andrew Hewitt: Drummer - has mild Cerebral Palsy. Formed The "Drums in Motion Project" a drum therapy workshop program aimed at disabled children.

Leroy F Moore Jr. Writer, advocate and journalist on issues and art involving disabled people of color. Leroy was born in Buffalo, NY in 1967 with Cerebral Palsy. "Krip-Hop displays the beauty and strength of collaboration and disabled music history, present and future." Leroy is one of the leading voices in the field of police brutality and wrongful incarceration of people with disabilities. Leroy Moore Interviews
Disabled Hip-Hop Artist Keith Jones: FEZO ABÒN: Musician, Paraplegic- Music Genre: Electronica. Abon was the first musician listed on Future Link.

VISIT THE BACK STAGE for information, ideas, programs, & organizations who work for these musicians to help make their music viable.

The Raven Drum Foundation Rick Allen the drummer for Def Leppard lost an arm in a car accident in 1984. "The first sound we ever heard was our mother’s heartbeat: The rhythm of life. Each and every one of our ancestors came from a tribe of people who all sat around a fire and communicated through percussion...
Beaver Felton: Bassist, Teacher, Businessman, Paraplegic- Interview with Beaver from Bass Inside magazine. Our second listing after Abon. Beaver operates Bass Central music store specializing in high end basses and amplification. -

Ivan Collins - Well The need to express the Country Boy finally happened after my experience with a Spinal Cord Injury obtained in 1986 while travelling around Australia and crashing my Hilux ute... Wayne MacDonald
Singer - song writer - guitarist - Paraplegic

Gary Schooley: Creator of Future-Link. Being a closet Musician & experienced Paraplegic, I find it inspiring to come across talented musicians with disabilities. Although my music history is not much compared to the folks listed on this page, there is always room for improvement for learning and developing musical skills. TOE JAM MUSIC: Is Jose Melendez. Tony was born without arms because his mother was prescribed thalidomide during her pregnancy. He wore artificial arms until he was ten, when he disposed of them. "I didn't feel comfortable," he explains, "I could use my feet so much more."

Vic Chesnutt: Singer, Guitarist, Paraplegic- "The big regrets have nothing to do with me. I look at the world and think, 'God, what a crazy world.' I think, 'God, it was so close. We could have lived with the Indians and not killed them all. That would have been great.' We were close, so close, right on the edge from realizing, 'No, you don't want to slaughter them.' We could have had a whole different world in the Americas. That makes me depressed." SIMON ILLA A quote from New Mobility magazine posted on a wall in his living room reads; "He’s 3 feet tall, his bones are brittle, and he uses a wheel chair - what makes him think he can make it in the music biz? He believes in himself, and that’s all he needs.” He's barely three feet tall.

Non Duality? Dada No Mind? No Mind? Dada No Mind? No Mind? Non Duality? Dada No Mind? Dada Non Duality? Dada No Mind?

World Flag Counter from June 11.2009

Counter added on September 1st 2008
by Bassin at 66

4 Wheel City

http://www.myspace.com/4wheelcity

CHRIS COX

Has Multiple Sclerosis. Lives with terrible pain, with damage to his hands and feet, music was the last thought on his mind. Chris’ guitar case didn’t open for nearly a year. However - he is now playing writing and recording. "I am not ready to give up. I’m writing my story. MS will not write it for me."

Toni Hickman

"I didn't move to New York, sleep in a shelter, get a deal and not put my album out, move to Atlanta, have 2 Brain Aneurysms and a stroke for nothing, I am going to still do music better than I ever have, and be the best disabled hip hop artist you have ever seen!"

STAGE TWO

STAGE THREE

Bassist Bill Clements began playing at the age of 13 - inspired by Chris Squire, and other progressive rock bass giants. Bill lost his right hand and forearm, 1989 in an industrial accident, within three months, Bill was gigging again and he hasn't stopped since. MORE
Mark Goffeney from Big Toe Band playing Superman Kryptonite for the crowd at Balboa Park, San Diego, Ca. - http://www.myspace.com/bigtoerocks

FUTURE LINKS
ARCHIVED
MUSICIAN
LISTINGS
CLICK EACH
PHOTO FOR
BIOGRAPHIES

Curtis Mayfield
Disabled Drummers with Heart
Kina Diamond

Anthony Rain Starez

Mike Hamer

Biography of Bill Clements
One arm Bassist

Rob Richard

Vic Chestnutt
Greg Harry
Anne Bostwick
Russ Ward
Jon Weems
Van Gogh
Kevin Reed

STAFF BENDA BILILI

Staff Benda Bilili, a Congolese band of street musicians who live near or in the zoo in Kinshasa, are on the verge of success. Due to a polio outbreak, most of the band members are paraplegics — roughly translated, Benda Bilili means ”look beyond appearances” — and, together, they create stirringly rhythmic music with lyrical insights about the country they live in and its people, whom they love.
Who Doesn’t Like Talking About Paraplegic Congolese Musicians

There is nothing quite as awesome (read: politically correct) as Congolese paraplegics who ride motorized tricycle wheelchairs and play guitars in a zoo. From Word Press

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"The future is going to be a lot different than it is now" -Bryan Brady
"The future never was" -Curtis Paddo
"The future isn't what it used to be"

	Jeff Moyer a 21st century renaissance man who works as guitarist, songwriter, author, producer, public speaker, historian and advocate for human rights is blind.		Santa Monica based Sam Morris is a singer/songwriter hailing from a blueberry farm in Maine. At 24, Sam’s life would change forever. Two months after leading a 4,000 mile bike trip for teens, Sam was paralyzed from the waist down in an accident caused by a drunk driver.
	PROFESSIR X- DJ - Rapper - Video Editor - Advocate - Quad. Richard has founded an non-profit organization called the I Believe Organization whose purpose is to promote awareness of the research being done and currently needed to help cure the diseases and conditions that affect him, and so many others.		Tobias Forrest is an artist, an actor and the singer in the Los Angeles based funk/rock band Cityzen - Tobias has had a guest starring role on “Weeds”
	Tulio Fuzato' Drummer		Lead Voice Mr. Dudé
	Thank God I've had a lot of help on everything. It's a slow process; there's no reason to hurry up but there's a lot of anxiety. It's a daily fight for physical and spiritual improvement that will be carried over till the last day of my life on the earthly plane and later into the spiritual land. -Tulio		For me and for Tulio have the opportunity to tell our story to other people in another countries is something that will give more shine to our cause for the rights of the disabled here in Brazil. And that God bless the great masters of the art of life: people with physical disabilities and do not fear the barriers or challenges. -Mr. Dudé
	Daddy Antonga was among the first drummers in Argentina to play irregular patterns along with a unique free style. Now a paraplegic - quit drumming for many years - he has returned to drumming. MORE		Laurence Amery - Deafness -By the time I was 27 I was missing a lot of conversations and starting to avoid some situations... couldn't make out much of the dialogue... didn't matter because night after night I was out with a band, gigging, with the drums ringing in my ears all the way home. MORE
	André Fontanelli - Paraplegic Bassplayer from Brazil "No matter what the difficulty, we all have our limitations, but with a little determination & strength of will we can have everything we want!"		Chris Cox - In March 2006 Chris’ life changed. Diagnosed Multiple Sclerosis. In terrible pain, with damage to his hands and feet, music was the last thought on his mind. Chris’ guitar case didn’t open for nearly a year.
	Derek Mortland whose life was changed dramatically due to a paralyzing semi-pro motorcycle accident in 1997; relearned guitar and broke through new musical barriers...“I had to totally re-learn how to do many things we generally take for granted.” New CD "SKETCHES IN TIME"		Swane - Artist/Songwriter - Has been a disabled artist since 1998 when a blockage in his throat led to having a permanent tracheotomy tube inserted.
	Miss Money: Musician - Rap, R&B Gospel DJ Urban music producer. Muscular dystrophy. Miss Money has been featured here a year ago but you HAVE to check out her new site and new music.		Tracy Marie has had both hips replaced... On a normal day, though, she has problems standing for more than 5-10 minutes before pain sets in because of the dysplasia and osteoarthritis.
	Chazz deMeyer - A disabled musician (spinal chord) for over thirty years, and for the life of me I do not know why it took so many years to seek others in a similar condition. After all this time I have finally gotten around to writing and singing about it. I have a new CD (Recovery) and a new book (The Fire Within) recently released.		Rob Da Noize Temple Musician Keyboards Producer is Noizemozis with John MoSis Miller: Rob has Erbs Palsy limiting him to the use of only one arm. Genre: R&B, Hip Hop.
	FLAME, a group from upstate New York made up of 11 people with developmental/physical disabilities, is capturing the world’s attention wants to change the world through music.		Andrew Hewitt: Drummer - has mild Cerebral Palsy. Formed The "Drums in Motion Project" a drum therapy workshop program aimed at disabled children.
	Leroy F Moore Jr. Writer, advocate and journalist on issues and art involving disabled people of color. Leroy was born in Buffalo, NY in 1967 with Cerebral Palsy. "Krip-Hop displays the beauty and strength of collaboration and disabled music history, present and future." Leroy is one of the leading voices in the field of police brutality and wrongful incarceration of people with disabilities. Leroy Moore Interviews Disabled Hip-Hop Artist Keith Jones: FEZO		ABÒN: Musician, Paraplegic- Music Genre: Electronica. Abon was the first musician listed on Future Link. VISIT THE BACK STAGE for information, ideas, programs, & organizations who work for these musicians to help make their music viable.
	The Raven Drum Foundation Rick Allen the drummer for Def Leppard lost an arm in a car accident in 1984. "The first sound we ever heard was our mother’s heartbeat: The rhythm of life. Each and every one of our ancestors came from a tribe of people who all sat around a fire and communicated through percussion...		Beaver Felton: Bassist, Teacher, Businessman, Paraplegic- Interview with Beaver from Bass Inside magazine. Our second listing after Abon. Beaver operates Bass Central music store specializing in high end basses and amplification. -
	Ivan Collins - Well The need to express the Country Boy finally happened after my experience with a Spinal Cord Injury obtained in 1986 while travelling around Australia and crashing my Hilux ute...		Wayne MacDonald Singer - song writer - guitarist - Paraplegic
	Gary Schooley: Creator of Future-Link. Being a closet Musician & experienced Paraplegic, I find it inspiring to come across talented musicians with disabilities. Although my music history is not much compared to the folks listed on this page, there is always room for improvement for learning and developing musical skills.		TOE JAM MUSIC: Is Jose Melendez. Tony was born without arms because his mother was prescribed thalidomide during her pregnancy. He wore artificial arms until he was ten, when he disposed of them. "I didn't feel comfortable," he explains, "I could use my feet so much more."
	Vic Chesnutt: Singer, Guitarist, Paraplegic- "The big regrets have nothing to do with me. I look at the world and think, 'God, what a crazy world.' I think, 'God, it was so close. We could have lived with the Indians and not killed them all. That would have been great.' We were close, so close, right on the edge from realizing, 'No, you don't want to slaughter them.' We could have had a whole different world in the Americas. That makes me depressed."		SIMON ILLA A quote from New Mobility magazine posted on a wall in his living room reads; "He’s 3 feet tall, his bones are brittle, and he uses a wheel chair - what makes him think he can make it in the music biz? He believes in himself, and that’s all he needs.” He's barely three feet tall.
Non Duality? Dada	No Mind? No Mind? Dada No Mind? No Mind?	Non Duality? Dada	No Mind? Dada Non Duality? Dada No Mind?
	World Flag Counter from June 11.2009 Counter added on September 1st 2008 by Bassin at 66		4 Wheel City http://www.myspace.com/4wheelcity

STAGE TWO	STAGE THREE

Bassist Bill Clements began playing at the age of 13 - inspired by Chris Squire, and other progressive rock bass giants. Bill lost his right hand and forearm, 1989 in an industrial accident, within three months, Bill was gigging again and he hasn't stopped since. MORE	Mark Goffeney from Big Toe Band playing Superman Kryptonite for the crowd at Balboa Park, San Diego, Ca. - http://www.myspace.com/bigtoerocks

FUTURE LINKS	ARCHIVED	MUSICIAN	LISTINGS	CLICK EACH	PHOTO FOR	BIOGRAPHIES
Curtis Mayfield	Disabled Drummers with Heart	Kina Diamond	Anthony Rain Starez	Mike Hamer	Biography of Bill Clements One arm Bassist	Rob Richard
Vic Chestnutt	Greg Harry	Anne Bostwick	Russ Ward	Jon Weems	Van Gogh	Kevin Reed