List of Blind People - Artists - Music

Music

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• 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.