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Colt Ford, whose real name is Jason Farris Brown, had just performed at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row in Gilbert, Arizona, when he suffered a heart attack.
According to a representative for Ford, the singer was admitted to the Intensive Care Unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center is Mesa, Arizona. His current condition is unknown.
“Last year I got diagnosed with an autoimmune disease called Myasthenia Gravis,” Ford told Taste of Country. “It’s been tough. The last year quite honestly got really hard for me. It’s a disease and there’s no cure for this.”
Colt added that Myasthenia Gravis “affects the muscles in your face, your eyes, and your throat. It hadn’t really affected my throat, but it really affected my eye. I had no control over my right eye. It really messes with your vision. I could see perfectly out of either eye, but then I would look together and I’d see three of you and you would be melting together like a lava lamp.”
Colt Ford is a multi-talented star who gained fame as a rapper, entrepreneur and songwriter. Ford has six charting singles to his credit and a songwriting resume that includes Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem.”
Ford became the first artist, and so far the only artist, to have a No. 1 album on the Billboard Top Country Album and Top Rap Albums chart.
In 2011, he earned a Vocal Event of the Year award nomination from the Academy of Country Music for his “Cold Beer” collaboration with Jamey Johnson.
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