Alternative rocker Mike Peters, front man of Welsh band The Alarm , has been singing songs around the themes of strength and love for decades.

“Everything is beautiful,” he sings to cheering fans gathered on a recent stop in the U.S. at New York’s Irving Plaza.

But the fact that he’s still writing those kind of lyrics when things have been less than beautiful for much of his life speaks volumes.

Peters has been diagnosed with blood cancers three times. The first, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, came in 1995.

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