Based on her experience in psychology, Ms. Kenny says the music industry often fails to provide enough emotional support or guidance to vulnerable young people coming into the field, many of whom are from broken homes or have experienced some degree of emotional disruption. “As they are climbing the ladder to stardom they dream of being at the peak and that all of their psychological problems will somehow be relieved by adoration and squillions of dollars,” she says. “What they actually come to is a sense of emptiness and incredibly demanding lifestyle, where everybody is telling them what to do.” Just why do the musicians die at such a young age? In a study by Dr. Arnold M. Ludwig, a psychiatrist at the University of Kentucky Medical, he quotes “Artists and writers experience two to three times the rate of psychosis, suicide attempts, mood disorders, and substance abuse than do comparably successful people in business, science, and public …show more content…
Kenny’s study of cause of death by musicians, some of the results are hardly surprising. For example, hip-hop artists are much more likely to be murdered than those in other genres. The oldest genres - blue, country, and jazz – have the highest rate of musicians succumbing to heart-related condition and cancer. And punk and metal are, by massive margins, the styles in which musicians are most likely to suffer accidental deaths (which includes overdoses and crashes. Metal, too, has an issue with suicide: almost one in five dead metal musicians took their own life, whereas the God-fearing folk of gospel are the least likely to kill