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A-ha’s Morten Harket Reveals Parkinson’s Diagnosis: ‘Take On Me’ Vocalist Says “I Don’t Feel Like Singing”
Morten Harket said "I don't feel like singing."
Using a two-and-a-half of his five octave vocal range and with model good looks, Harket became the voice and face of MTV and pop radio during the mid-1980s as a-ha’s infectious hit song (and its inventive music video that made heavy use of rotoscoping) “Take On Me” became ubiquitous. Last June, he traveled to the United States, where surgeons at the Mayo Clinic implanted, inside the left side of his brain, electrodes that receive electrical impulses from a small pacemaker-like device in his upper chest. Harket, who maintained a steady solo and band career since his 1980s heyday, says he visited the Mayo Clinic last June and again in December to have electrodes implanted in his brain to treat the symptoms of Parkinson’s.
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