“My tinnitus symptoms were so bad that I could not leave my house for months”
My name is Rupert Brown. I am a musician, producer and drum teacher – and, more importantly, a tinnitus sufferer. Sadly, my story with tinnitus starts at the age of 22.
In 1991, as a young drummer, I was honoured to be asked to play a series of gigs with Roy Ayers (an American jazz legend vibraphonist) at Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club. It was going so well that Roy and his manager asked me to continue the tour into America.
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To mark Tinnitus Week 2020, artist and producer Rupert Brown writes on living with tinnitus and explains why he created T-Minus to help fellow sufferers take control
Comment 6 February 2020