Music
For more details on this topic, see Blind musicians.- Tsutomu Aragaki, Japanese tenor, blind from just after birth.
- Frankie Armstrong - English folk singer and community musician, increasing visual impairment, some sight regained following 1990 operation.
- The Blind Boys of Alabama - Gospel group.
- Andrea Bocelli - Operatic pop singer.
- Rudolf Braun - composer and organist
- Henry Caldera - Sri Lankan singer/songwriter, blind since age 14.
- Ray Charles - pianist and singer inducted to varied halls of fame.
- Fanny Crosby - Christian hymn writer.
- Reverend Gary Davis - gospel blues guitarist.
- José Feliciano - Grammy Award-winner.
- Five Blind Boys of Mississippi - The original line-up of this gospel group was blind, some later members were not.
- Blind Boy Fuller - Blues guitarist and vocalist.
- Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu - indigenous Australian singer-songwriter.
- Diana Gurtskaya, pop singer from the ex-Soviet country of Georgia
- Ed Haley - Appalachian old-time fiddler.
- Jeff Healey - Blues-rock guitarist and vocalist.
- Al Hibbler - Jazz pop vocalist.
- Heather Hutchison, pop singer
- Blind Lemon Jefferson - "Father of the Texas Blues"
- Blind Willie Johnson - Slide guitarist who's been termed "influential" and "the apogee" for the instrument.
- Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Jazz multi-instrumentalist.
- Lachi - Visually impaired Nigerian American singer-songwriter, pianist and composer out of New York City
- Francesco Landini - 14th century Italian composer and organist.
- Blind Willie McTell - Blues guitarist.
- Raul Midón - Singer-songwriter.
- Ronnie Milsap - Country and pop singer.
- Moondog - Outsider musician born "Louis Thomas Hardin."
- Turlough O'Carolan - harper and composer blinded by smallpox.
- Paul Pena, American blues musician and throat singer.
- Joaquín Rodrigo - Spanish composer and pianist.
- Diane Schuur - Grammy winning jazz singer.
- Charlotta Seuerling
- George Shearing - British jazz pianist.
- Tom Sullivan - American musician, author and motivational speaker. The 1982 film If You Could See What I Hear is based on his autobiography.
- Bertha Tammelin
- Art Tatum - Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award and Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, partial sight in one eye.
- Lennie Tristano - Down Beat Jazz Hall of Fame, critics choice.
- Ostap Veresai - Noted kobzar.
- Doc Watson - guitarist in several genres.
- Stevie Wonder - Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee.
- Terri Gibbs - country music singer and musician.
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“If music in general is an imitation of history, opera in particular is an imitation of human willfulness; it is rooted in the fact that we not only have feelings but insist upon having them at whatever cost to ourselves.... The quality common to all the great operatic roles, e.g., Don Giovanni, Norma, Lucia, Tristan, Isolde, Brünnhilde, is that each of them is a passionate and willful state of being. In real life they would all be bores, even Don Giovanni.”
—W.H. (Wystan Hugh)
“Franceska: I was happy in the life I built up for myself. I put a fine high wall of music around me and nothing could touch me. I was safe and secure. And then you had to come along and knock it all down and I hate you for that.
Maxwell: On the contrary, you love me.”
—Muriel Box (b. 1905)
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—John Jay Chapman (1862–1933)