Paralysed French hip-hop artiste makes music with his eyes


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Guilhem Gallart, known as Pone, lies on a bed next to his partner Wahiba at their home in Gaillac in the south of France. Photo: AFP Relaxnews

Being left paralysed by the same motor-neurone disease that incapacitated Stephen Hawking has not kept one French hip-hop artiste from making music – with nothing but his eyes.

Guilhem "Pone" Gallart, a founding member of French rap collective Fonky Family, first fell ill with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) in 2015, and it has left him bedridden and on permanent life support.

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