'I started coughing blood': Sufian Suhaimi's painful journey to the Anugerah Juara Lagu finals


Sufian Suhaimi. Photo: The Star/Kevin Tan

When singer Sufian Suhaimi competed at the semifinals of one of the country’s most prestigious song competitions Anugerah Juara Lagu (AJL) last November, there was something the audience didn’t know – he had spent the week before coughing blood.

“It started a few weeks before that actually. I was down with fever and was coughing non-stop,” he recounts the ordeal in an interview with StarLifestyle. “When I started coughing blood, I went to the doctor and got myself tested for TB (tuberculosis). The result was negative. I think I was coughing so hard, my throat was bleeding.”

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