Country music star suffers heart attack after show

ARIZONA (KPHO/Gray News) – Country music icon Colt Ford suffered a heart attack after a show in Arizona Thursday night.

According to a news release, the multi-platinum singer-songwriter was performing at Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row.

He is currently under care in the Intensive Care Unit at the Banner Desert Medical Center in Mesa, Arizona.

From Athens, Georgia, Ford has a long history of health problems, including eye cancer and an autoimmune disease known as Myasthenia Gravis, according to several music media outlets.

The disorder “affects the muscles in your face, your eyes, and your throat. It hadn’t really affected my throat, but it really affected my eye. I had no control over my right eye. It really messes with your vision. I could see perfectly out of either eye, but then I would look together and I’d see three of you and you would be melting together like a lava lamp,” Ford told Taste of Country in 2023.

Along with several No. 1 hits, Ford originally recorded Jason Aldean’s “Dirt Road Anthem,” which has garnered over 927 million worldwide streams.

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