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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