PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH
Mar 01, 2022
3 minutes
BY CHRIS PARTON
When it comes to relentless optimism, country star Drake White has what you might call “real-world experience.”
Back in August of 2019, the “Livin’ the Dream” singer was in the middle of a concert in Virginia when he suffered a sudden brain bleed, nearly collapsing onstage. Just months earlier he had been secretly diagnosed with AVM (arteriovenous malformation), and although the “abnormal” tangle of arteries and veins causes no problem at all in some patients, in White it created a massive stroke.
Right there onstage, the passionately upbeat singer-songwriter lost the
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