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.

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