Country Music's Clay Walker Forms MS Foundation

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Country Music's Clay Walker Forms MS Foundation
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (Reuters) - Country music's Clay Walker, diagnosed with
multiple sclerosis in 1996, announced on Tuesday that he was forming a
foundation to fund research on the disease.
"I feel blessed to continue to be so healthy. Sometimes I would feel guilty
because I know not everyone who is diagnosed with MS is that lucky," Walker said
in a statement issued in Nashville where he is working on a new album for RCA.
"I want to help those with MS who have not been so fortunate by providing them
both a resource for information about MS, and the hope that someone else is
helping to raise money to find treatments and a cure for this disease," he
added.
He said the organization would be called The Band Against MSSM Foundation, with
a Web site that can be found at http://www.band-against-ms.org.
Walker, 33, said he hopes to see the debilitating disease cured in his lifetime
and plans to raise money through the sale of merchandise during his 2003 concert
tour.
The Texas-born singer has sold more than 8 million albums, including four
platinum and two gold, and for five years one of his songs made Billboard's
year-end Top 10 country list.