‘I had 70 operations, was sectioned at 14 – then a gift from my 00s rock icons saved my life’

Brodie Brown is turning trauma into music – with epic results (Picture: Brodie Brown)Brodie Brown isn’t an ordinary 17 year old. At 14-years-old Brodie was sectioned, and since the age of two he’s endured over 70 operations on his throat. He was born with a rare condition called cystic hygroma – or lymphangioma – a birth defect which forced him to spend much of his childhood and teens not in school, but in Great Ormond Street Hospital fighting to breathe.