

This gave Carré no option but to leave Detroit, where she and her ex-husband had bought a house, with nothing but one suitcase and two guitars. Within the year, everything else-her security and stability, her home and home studio, her cats-had also gone. If that wasn’t bad enough, two months after her diagnosis, her musician husband jumped ship-to put it nicely.

As a result of the condition, she’s prone to episodes where her lungs fill up with blood and she’s literally drowning. A few years ago, Carré Kwong Callaway-aka Queen Kwong-was diagnosed with cystic fibrosis and told she may only have a decade left to live.
