About Alan Holdsworth
Born 1952. Alan Holdsworth is a British disability rights activist, composer and producer.
Alan Holdsworth (born 1952 in Salford, stage name Johnny Crescendo) is a British musician and disability rights activist living in Philadelphia, United States.
He participated in the 1990 and 1992 Block Telethon campaign while living in the United Kingdom. In 2013, he founded the first Disability Pride event in the United States.
Holdsworth has been affected by polio and uses a wheelchair.
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Who is Alan Holdsworth?
British musician and disability activist (born 1952)
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Alan Holdsworth was born in 1952 in Salford.
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Alan Holdsworth is a disability rights activist, composer and producer.
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Alan Holdsworth is British.
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