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ARTS - SINGERS
INDIVIDUALS ORGANISATIONS SOCIAL MEDIA
| In 1992 Auti Angel, a professional dancer on her way to stardom, faced devastation when she experienced a life threatening auto accident that left her paralyzed from the waist down. However, through years of many trials, Auti Angel has been able to reinvent herself as the shinning star she is.
Auti Angel has experienced life’s challenges that would later become her tool to help mentor others through their struggles. Returning to her first love of dance, she pioneered wheelchair hip-hop dancing worldwide and has continued to pursue her career in music and acting; showing this industry that she is Unstoppable!
Auti Angel is currently one of the stars on the Best Reality Series "Push Girls" (Critics Choice Award winner). In the film "Musical Chairs" on HBO, she not only stars as Nicky, but she also wrote, sang, and co-produced the song “Baile Baile” that is on the soundtrack (availible on iTunes). |
| Online gallery of author, artist/sculptor, singer-songwriter, screenwriter, Donna Williams. Diagnosed with autism, many of the works illuminate the experience of autism and interactions between autistic and non-autistic community.
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| I started singing and visiting churches at the early age of 3. I would stand up in front of the congregation and sing "Jesus Loves Me." From that time on I knew this was something I wanted to do forever. As you might imagine growing up with a disability was very challenging. |
| Justin Hines has thrived all his life against odds that would daunt many others. Justin has Larsen Syndrome, a joint dislocation condition that confines him to a wheelchair. “The reality is I don’t really look at my situation as that big a deal, we all have things that challenge us, some people’s are more visible, others wear it on the inside.” Hines has performed across Europe, the Middle East, China, North America, the Beijing & Vancouver Olympics & 2011 Pan Am Games in Mexico. Although he admits his condition has provided challenges, he primarily sees the good it has brought him and the inspiration he can provide others.
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| Young and sparkling singer-songwriter of "dance/pop" music,
generally in English but also in French and Spanish.
Distinct and unique… discover her real difference !
Her love of life and music sculpts, moulds and shapes her inspirations. The dream of a better world, gives her the strength and drive necessary to reach her ultimate goals.
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| Mark Goffeney is a native San Diegan whose talent and ambition have helped him to achieve ongoing success as a performer, speaker and television personality. Mark has been recognized for his work internationally and was nominated for an Emmy award in 1998 for his principal role in the Fox Network commercial, 'Feet'?. Music was a big part of Mark's family and he remembers being deeply touched by it at a very early age. By age nine, Mark was attempting to create his own music, but choosing an instrument would prove to be a challenge.
Mark asked his neighborhood friend for some guitar instruction. With his friend's help Mark soon developed his own technique. He would lay the guitar on the ground, supporting the neck and he would strum with his left foot and make chords with his right.
By early adulthood, Mark was committed to a full-fledged career in music and by the end of the nineties Mark had successfully completed his first CD, titled "Big Toe"?.
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| Four years after a serious car accident, Melody Gardot used the experience as a springboard to musical success she might never have achieved otherwise. The singer was hit by an SUV while riding her bicycle. Her injuries left her unable to sit up for more than 10 minutes. She suffered short-term memory loss and acute sensitivity to light and sound. Gardot had played the piano and a doctor suggested that she use music as a kind of recovery therapy. Since she couldn't sit comfortably at the piano, she picked up a guitar. Now, she's a Grammy nominated, professional touring musician with her critically acclaimed third album 'The Absence' just out.
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| Jazz, blues, rock, soul, funk and reggae...Michael 'Mick On Wheels' Sattin has delivered it all to audiences in Australia. As an accomplished singer, performer & vocal instructor, Michael has a lot to share other aspiring performers and folks who want to discover their vocal mojo! |
| Life-changing accidents are commonplace among spinal cord injury survivors, but few have tumbled from the heights that R&B singer Teddy Pendergrass achieved and then had to pick themselves up with the whole world watching. |
| Pip Cowan was 17 years old when he had a motorbike accident that left him with permanent spinal cord injury. As a result he is now paralysed from the chest down, has no finger movement, limited arm function, and uses a wheelchair.
In the 22 years since his accident Pip has developed a passion for blues music and despite his injuries has figured out a unique and interesting way to play a one-string cigar box guitar using a screwdriver.
Pip’s passion for the music and culture of the blues has prompted him to create a project called Busking My Way To Mississippi, which will be collaboration between him and long time friend Ryan Coonan. |
| Rudely Interrupted are one of Australia's truly unique independent rock acts. Based in Melbourne, 5 out of the 6 members share a range of both physical and intellectual disabilities (Blindness, Deafness, Aspergers, Autism and Down Syndrome) but most importantly, a common interest in self expression through music. Their achievements, both personal and professional to date are extraordinary. "We are here to challenge peoples thoughts on disability"
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| At 21, Anthony had a bad car accident in Maryland that caused a C5-6 complete spinal injury.
Anthony began experimenting with creating music again, buying studio time at a local recording studio to create a four-song cassette called Under No Flag, with Anthony writing lyrics and performing vocalsAlong with his music background, Anthony has written many fiction and nonfiction short stories, some of which are featured on this site. Please listen |
| Thomas Quasthoff's small and imperfect body, a result of congenital disability, harboured a magnificent bass-baritone voice that has made him an internationally acclaimed singer. This is an unofficial site dedicated to his works. |
| In 1999 Tim was one of 18 talented performers who were selected from a pool of over a thousand
applicants into the Musical Theatre course at Perth's prestigious Western Australia Academy of Performing
Arts (WAAPA). However, only days before he was to commence his music theatre course, a swimming accident left him a quadriplegic. Since then, his resilient character and extraordinary spirit have touched the hearts of the arts community, as they have watched him rehabilitate and return to the stage to continue his performing career. |
| Guitarist extraordinaire Tony uses his toes to do the pickin'. |
| Can Do Muso's was established to promote and support musicians with disabilities from all over the world. Can Do Musos want to provide guidance and hope to all musicians with challenges. Music is empowering and has no limitations and everyone should have a chance at their dreams. Having a "Can Do attitude" is the first step toward success!
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| The Coalition for Disabled Musicians. (CDM) is a voluntary, non-profit organization dedicated to enabling physically disabled musicians to pursue their musical dreams. CDM receives a few small grants and maintains its services through private and performance donations, but is always seeking additional financial assistance to improve and repair equipment, and is always recruiting volunteers to help move and operate the equipment, teach an instrument, or help out in the office. |
| A collective of artists and performers who identify as being disabled or having a disability, its members are professional and amateur artists and performers of all genres. They include visual artists, screen and stage actors, dancers, comedians and humorists, musicians, singers, speakers, poets, writers, producers, directors and others working in the arts and entertainment industries. They experience physical, intellectual or learning disablement, mental illness, or a combination. |
| Inspired by the Montreal Homeless Men's Choir and his previous experience with the Sydney Street Choir, former Opera Australia Tenor Jonathon Welch formed a partnership with ABC TV, Fremantle Media and RecLink Australia to document the creation of the Choir of Hard Knocks. Formed in September 2006, the Choir of Hard Knocks is made up of a group of 50 diverse and eclectic individuals who responded to a call to form a community street choir. Their incredible journey was recorded and broadcast by the ABC and touched the lives of millions of viewers across Australia.
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| Four years after a serious car accident, Melody Gardot used the experience as a springboard to musical success she might never have achieved otherwise. The singer, now 23, was hit by an SUV while bike riding and her injuries left her unable to sit up for more than 10 mins plus short-term memory loss and acute sensitivity to light and sound. Gardot had played the piano before the accident and a doctor suggested that she use music as a kind of recovery therapy. Since she couldnt sit comfortably at the piano, she picked up a guitar. Now, shes a professional musician, and her debut full-length album is called Worrisome Heart.
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| Seven years ago Tim McCallum was accepted into the prestigious Academy of Performing Arts in Western Australia. It was the culmination of a childhood dream.
But three days after arriving in WA to start his studies, Tim McCallum broke his neck in an accident in the surf. He was left paralysed from the chest down with only partial use of his arms. It seemed there was no realistic prospect of him ever being able to sing again.
But Derek Bond, a lecturer from the Academy visited Tim in hospital every second day and encouraged him to continue music studies and to try to use his voice again. "Anyone who sings knows the support you have to get from the diaphragm and if you haven't got all those muscles working there for you then you have to work in another way"? says Bond. At first it was a struggle, but gradually and remarkably the power in Tim McCallum's voice returned.
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