Vince Freeman: ‘Spinal injury left me unable to hold baby son’

Vince’s career was at a high after competing in The Voice 2012 and releasing a hit single.

The singer, who lives in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, said he was “just going out and doing as many gigs as possible”, averaging about 300 shows a year.

He had won the UK Indie Awards in 2008, beating the likes of Jamie Woon, Newton Faulkner and Ed Sheeran.

Then, four years later, he was asked to go on the first ever series of The Voice, which he followed up with single The Singer, which charted at number two in Germany.

“I finally sort of felt like I was starting to get somewhere,” he said.

But around 2015, aged 37, two severely prolapsed discs and an osteo-degenerative condition left him unable to do the most basic of daily tasks, let alone organise a tour.

“I just found that over a period of time I was more frequently coming home and saying to my wife, ‘my back hurts’,” said Vince.

“It got to a point where it was more than just moaning.”

He collapsed one morning and ended up in hospital.