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Born in Toronto, Ontario, [2] Healey was raised in the city's west end. He was adopted as an infant; [3] his adoptive father was a firefighter.When he was almost one year old, Healey lost his sight due to retinoblastoma, a rare cancer of the eyes. [2]
Because guitarist Ritchie Blackmore disliked "When a Blind Man Cries", the band never played the song live during his stay with the band, with the exception of one occasion, on 6 April 1972 in Quebec, Canada, when Blackmore was ill, and Randy California from Spirit stood in for him. Ian Gillan performed the song frequently in the early 1990s. [3]
Songs from the Road is a posthumous released live blues album by Jeff Healey. It was released in July, 2009. This album was released over a year after his death, and contains hits and covers. As noted by one reviewer, "...the blind musician will be remembered best for playing searing guitar on his lap, looking like a pedal steel guitar man gone ...
"Angel Eyes" is a song written by John Hiatt and Fred Koller and produced by Greg Ladanyi for the Jeff Healey Band's first album, See the Light (1988). It was first released in the United Kingdom as the album's second single in April 1989 and was issued in the United States several weeks later.
Mess of Blues is an album by Jeff Healey.It was released in March 2008, less than two weeks after Healey's death. Four of the album's tracks were recorded live in front of audiences, two of the live tracks at the Islington Academy in London, and the other two live tracks at Jeff Healey's Roadhouse in Toronto.
According to legend, he was blind either at birth or due to disease or injury. Jorge Luis Borges – Argentine writer blind in later part of his career. [75] Didymus the Blind – Ecclesiastical writer of Alexandria. [76] John Lee Clark – American deafblind poet. [77] Belo Cipriani – Latino writer, blind at the age of 26. James Jerpe ...
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Healey was a jazz radio host for the CBC and CJRT-FM, a blues club owner, and performer (acoustic guitar and trumpet) in traditional jazz groups. Healey died on March 2, 2008, due to cancer. The late Canadian bluesman Jeff Healey playing at a 2002 festival; note his unconventional lap-top style of playing the electric guitar.