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Travis Barker lately drummed up enterprise for a younger fan’s lemonade stand in Los Angeles. On Aug. 18, the Blink-182 drummer visited the Dream Machine Basis to shock Grayson Roberts, a 9-year-old blind drummer, at his Limitless Lemonade stand. Roberts based the stand within the hopes of elevating sufficient cash to realize his dream of touring the world whereas he nonetheless has some imaginative and prescient left in his remaining eye. “What’s up, Grayson? How are you?” Barker mentioned as he approached the stand and dropped a beneficiant donation within the tip jar. “Good to satisfy you. I introduced you some drumsticks.”
“I really feel so blessed I received to be a particular a part of this.”
After introducing himself to Roberts, the daddy of three additionally agreed to an impromptu jam session with the elementary schooler. “Do you wish to sing or play drums?” he requested Roberts earlier than they hopped on stage to carry out “Avenue Struggle” by Adam Jensen in entrance of a cheering crowd. “I really feel so blessed I received to be a particular a part of this,” Roberts wrote on his Instagram Tales. “Thanks @wanderingfurther for making this all attainable.”
The candy second was made attainable because of entrepreneur and music supervisor Charlie Rocket, who encountered Roberts’s lemonade stand on the road and determined to assist him carry in additional clients. “I’ve at all times been very captivated with discovering methods to get excellent news to unfold sooner than dangerous information,” Rocket wrote on his IGS. “The one strategy to combat darkness is with gentle!” Because of the efficiency, a whole lot of followers stopped by the stand to donate to Roberts’s trigger.
On his Instagram account, Roberts shared extra concerning the congenital dysfunction that resulted in his imaginative and prescient loss and the inspiration behind his Limitless Lemonade stand. “My identify is Grayson. I used to be born with Axenfeld-Rieger syndrome which is a watch dysfunction, though it might probably additionally have an effect on different elements of the physique,” he wrote in 2019. “[It] is characterised by abnormalities of the entrance a part of the attention. For me, it left me with Glaucoma (eye strain) and Aniridia (no iris). I’ve had 32 surgical procedures and 5 cornea transplants to assist save a few of my imaginative and prescient.”
The 9-year-old added that he is grateful for the alternatives he is been given and he hasn’t let his imaginative and prescient loss have an effect on his happiness. “On a regular basis with even a fraction of sight is a chance for me to attach with my environment. I do not let my restricted imaginative and prescient cease me. I am humorous, joyful, like to sing and make music, journey, studying and I consider I can do something. I used to be served lemons however I select to make lemonade on a regular basis as a result of on a regular basis has candy sunshine. Thanks for following me and becoming a member of me in my journey.”
The jam session comes only one month after Barker and Kourtney Kardashian introduced they’re anticipating their first little one collectively. Forward, see Barker and Roberts’s efficiency, and take a look at the 9-year-old’s drumming expertise at his faculty expertise present.
