Inside the life of a global superstar: Love, loss, and the fight to keep performing

he was eight years old. He was supposed to be playing Beethoven’s Piano Sonata No. 14 as written, but instead performed a rock-and-roll version of the piece.

At one point, his father “came down the stairs, bang, I got whacked,” the Grammy winner said.

“I got whacked so hard he knocked me out, I was unconscious for like a minute. And I remember waking continue reading …