Los Angeles based Cityzen, has a message, and Tobias Forrest won’t let you forget it. Disaboom has a great feature article with the quadriplegic frontman of this talented and charismatic band. Check it out!

“I’m very passionate about not showing the world people with disabilities but instead showing people with disabilities the world. We all have the potential to be beautiful, wonderful and talented people,” singer Tobias Forrest says, “I just want to sing.”

And, sing he does. Forrest is the lead singer of the band Cityzen in Los Angeles.

The band offers a great sound and is building a following in clubs and on http://www.myspace.com/CITYZENLA.

“I started the group with Jeff Line. We played in a band in college before my accident. I was almost 23 when I became a C5 quadriplegic. It was May 1998 and I was diving off a waterfall in the Grand Canyon. It was the time of El Niño and the water level was lower. I was told it was safe to dive there, but it was too shallow. I did a little drowning, I did a little dying, but I said Heaven can wait,” Forrest explains with a laugh. “I didn’t lose my sense of humor.”

Cityzen’s tour schedule and music can be found at their mySpace page. Mad talent.

MSNBC is running a three part interview/documentary of John Pou’s odyssey into (and hopefully out of) quadriplegiant. A very candid, and touching, look at the life of a husband, father, and provider turned upside down after a diving accident. Part 1 is available today.

Like many young men, Todd Stabelfeldt grew up with technology. But for him, technology wasn’t just video games, and mp3s, and HD TV — it was a life altering tool which helped him regain his independence after becoming paralyzed in a shooting accident when he was 8. Todd’s experiences and passions have led him to open a charitable foundation aimed at helping other mobility limited individuals take independent control of their lives. through the use of assistive technology The Bainbridge Review has conducted an in-depth and inspiring interview with Todd.

Like many others in his line of work, Todd Stabelfeldt grew up with technology.

Eventually he plugged in, taking classes and landing a job at Cortex Medical Management Technology, a Seattle software company.

As a quadriplegic, it is technology, combined with initiative and ingenuity, that affords Stabelfeldt his most prized possession — independence.

“That’s a word that for me that is bold, italicized, underlined and capitalized,” said Stabelfeldt, surrounded by the various devices at his Wyatt Way apartment that allow him to work and live, for the most part, on his own terms. “There’s no dollar amount to solve for that.”

Funded by several technology companies, the Todd Stabelfeldt Foundation is slated to launch in the next few months. Its aim is to connect people with disabilities to new technology and other help that might otherwise elude them, and to reach out to occupational therapists in an effort to continually improve available care.