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.”