Blind musicians are singers or instrumentalists, or in some cases singer-accompanists, who are legally blind. Historically, many blind musicians, including...
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featured a changing roster of musicians over its history, the majority of whom are or were vision impaired. The Blind Boys found mainstream success following...
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Blind Musician (Russian: Слепой музыкант, romanized: Slepoy muzykant) is a 1960 Soviet drama film directed by Tatyana Lukashevich. A blind boy who grew...
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The Blind Musician (Russian: Слепой музыкант, romanized: Slepoi muzykant) is an 1886 novel by Vladimir Korolenko. Originally serialised in 2 February-13...
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water, permanently blinding him. Few other details are known about the singer's childhood. At some point he met another blind musician, Madkin Butler, who...
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Lemon Henry "Blind Lemon" Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer-songwriter and musician. He was one...
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Arthur Blake (1896 – December 1, 1934), known as Blind Blake, was an American blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He is known for recordings he made...
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Blind Girl (1856) is a painting by John Everett Millais which depicts two itinerant beggars, presumed to be sisters, one of whom is a blind musician,...
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Jerron "Blind Boy" Paxton (born January 26, 1989) is an American musician from Los Angeles. A vocalist and multi-instrumentalist, Paxton's style draws...
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a dancer born with unique physical characteristics, and Tomona, a blind musician. Ostracized by society due to their physical differences, Inu-Oh and...
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gospel blues guitarist. Blind John Davis – American blues and boogie-woogie pianist and singer. Kimio Eto - Japanese blind musician who played the koto....
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Fulton Allen (July 10, 1904 – February 13, 1941), known as Blind Boy Fuller, was an American blues guitarist and singer. Fuller was one of the most popular...
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the best-known Black musicians. Wiggins was born Thomas Greene on the Wiley Edward Jones Plantation in Harris County, Georgia. Blind at birth, he was sold...
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Blind Willie McTell (born William Samuel McTier; May 5, 1898 – August 19, 1959) was an American Piedmont blues and ragtime singer and guitarist. He played...
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Sirine Jahangir (category Blind musicians)
Sirine Jahangir (born 2005) is a blind British musician, pianist and singer-songwriter, known for her appearance on Britain's Got Talent 2020. Sirine Jahangir...
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Louis Braille (category Blind musicians)
Royal Institute for Blind Youth. While still a student there, he began developing a system of tactile code that could allow blind people to read and write...
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Tony DeBlois (category Blind musicians)
Anthony Thomas "Tony" DeBlois is a blind American autistic savant and musician. Tony DeBlois was born on January 22, 1974. Weighing less than two pounds...
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and influential musicians in history, and was often referred to by contemporaries as "The Genius". Among friends and fellow musicians he preferred being...
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Christie Wilson (July 4, 1943 – September 3, 1970), nicknamed "Blind Owl", was an American musician, best known as the co-founder, leader, co-lead singer, and...
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include the 1982 film If You Could See What I Hear (where he portrayed blind musician Tom Sullivan), Body Chemistry, Something for Joey (as football star...
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"King" Bennie Nawahi (category Blind musicians)
1935 while driving home from a performance, Nawahi was suddenly struck blind. No medical cause was ever identified. The loss of vision was permanent...
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Leslie Lemke (category Blind musicians)
Leslie Lemke (born January 31, 1952) is a blind American savant who is most notable for his work as a musician. Leslie Lemke was born prematurely in Milwaukee...
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various session musicians filling in, primarily Oliver Holzwarth. However, in 2005, Stauch left the band, expressing disapproval of Blind Guardian's shift...
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Shannon Hoon (category Blind Melon members)
October 21, 1995) was an American singer-songwriter and musician. He was the lead singer of the band Blind Melon from 1990 until his death in 1995. Hoon was...
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Derek Paravicini (category Blind musicians)
2008. ISBN 978-0099513582. Leslie Lemke, blind American savant and musician "Derek Paravicini – Musician or a Superhuman? – Music Malt | culture, festivals...
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Matthew Whitaker (pianist) (category Blind musicians)
Matthew Whitaker (born April 3, 2001) is an American jazz pianist. Blind since birth, he has performed at venues including Carnegie Hall, the Kennedy...
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Stevie Wonder (category Blind musicians)
is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and record producer. One of the most acclaimed and influential musicians of the 20th century, he is credited...
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legally blind and forced to retire from carpentry. In 2015, Music Maker Relief Foundation, a non-profit organization that supports aging blues musicians, discovered...
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Doc Watson (category Blind musicians)
well as his knowledge of traditional American music, were highly regarded. Blind from a young age, he performed publicly both in a dance band and solo, as...
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Another Stakeout. The following year, Stowe played a leading role as a blind musician in the thriller Blink, in the neo-noir thriller China Moon, and in the...
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