With more than 20 albums and collections to his name, Alan Jackson is one of country music’s most influential artists. Most recently, he received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the ACM Awards. Previously, he was the recipient of the 2022 Country Music Awards Willie Nelson Lifetime Achievement Award, and he is also a three-time CMA Entertainer of the Year Award recipient (1995, 2002, 2003) and a two-time Grammy winner. Unsurprisingly, he was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2017.
Aside from a three-decade-long career, his personal life has flourished, too. He is a proud husband to Denise Jackson, whom he married in 1979. The sweet couple share three kids: daughters Mattie, Alexandra, and Dani.
As Alan gets older, he is unfortunately grappling with the effects of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, a degenerative neurological disease. Despite his diagnosis, which he received years before he announced it in 2021, Alan continues to perform to the best of his ability. Read on to learn about Charcot-Marie-Tooth and how it’s affecting the country legend today.
Alan Jackson revealed he had been living with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease for “years” in a September 2021 interview with TODAY‘s Jenna Bush Hager.
“There’s no cure for it, but it’s been affecting me for years,” he said at the time. “And it’s getting more and more obvious. And I know I’m stumbling around on stage. And now I’m having a little trouble balancing, even in front of the microphone, and so I just feel very uncomfortable.” He also revealed the disease was passed on to him from his father.
And even though he was starting to really feel the effects of Charcot-Marie-Tooth, the “Don’t Rock the Jukebox” hitmaker said he had no plans to retire.
