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Brad Arnold, frontman with rock band 3 Doors Down, diagnosed with stage four cancer

Grammy-nominated and chart-topping singer says he has ‘no fear’ of illness in kidney and lung

Formed in Mississippi, 3 Doors Down exploded on to the US rock scene in 2000 with debut single Kryptonite, which Arnold had written in his mid-teens during a maths class at school. Bassist Todd Harrell was replaced after being convicted of a 2013 vehicular homicide incident, and guitarist Matt Roberts, who had left the band in 2012 to focus on his health, died of an overdose in 2016. After criticism in some quarters, guitarist Chris Henderson defended their performance, saying: “It wasn’t a Trump thing … It was the inauguration of a president of the United States of America.

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