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Nathaniel Ayers
American musician
Musical artist
Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Jr. (born January 31, 1951) is an American musician.
Nathaniel ayers motherHe is the subject of numerous newspaper columns, a book, and a 2009 film adaptation based on the columns. A foundation bearing his name was started in 2008 with an aim to support artistically gifted people with mental illness.[1]
School and severe mental health crisis
Ayers began playing the double bass[2] during middle school.
He attended the Juilliard School in New York as a double bassist,[3] but had a mental breakdown during his second year and was institutionalized. Ayers was one of the few black students at Juilliard at that time.
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For some years he lived with his mother in Cleveland, Ohio, where he received electroconvulsive therapy for his illness to no avail. After his mother's death in 2000, he moved to Los Angeles, thinking that his father lived there.
Homeless and debilitated with symptoms of schizophreni