Inside the life of a global superstar: Love, loss, and the fight to keep performing

own ballads: tender, violent, and stubbornly hopeful. From a father who once struck him so hard he blacked out at the piano to a mother battling loneliness, alcohol, and likely untreated bipolar disorder, his childhood was a storm he survived with nothing but a keyboard and a will to escape. Fame didn’t spare him. Broken marriages, betrayal by those continue reading …