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Blind musicians have made a significant contribution to American popular music. This is particularly true in blues, gospel, jazz, and other predominantly African American forms – perhaps because discrimination at the time made it more difficult for black blind people to find other employment.
Scott Douglas MacIntyre (born June 22, 1985) is an American singer, songwriter, and pianist, and the eighth place finalist on the eighth season of American Idol.MacIntyre is visually impaired, and while not completely blind, he has tunnel vision and has only a two-percent field of vision, both due to Leber's congenital amaurosis.
Pages in category "Blind musicians" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 251 total. ... David Miller (American musician) Ronnie Milsap;
Eric "Ricky" McKinnie performing at Cosmopolite Scene in Oslo (2018) Eric "Ricky" McKinnie (born July 12, 1952) is a blind American gospel singer, [1] drummer, [2] radio show host, recording studio owner, stage actor, and songwriter, best known for performing with the Blind Boys of Alabama, a gospel group that has won six Grammy Awards and received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the ...
It includes American musicians that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent. Pages in category "American musicians with disabilities" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 322 total.
Tom Sullivan (born March 27, 1947) is an American singer, actor, writer, and motivational speaker. Blind since infancy, he has been a public advocate for assistive services for the blind, and research into treatments for blindness.
Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945), commonly known as Blind Willie Johnson, was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist. His landmark recordings completed between 1927 and 1930, thirty songs in all, display a combination of powerful chest voice singing, slide guitar skills and originality that has influenced generations of musicians.
Blind Leroy Garnett – American boogie-woogie and ragtime pianist and songwriter. [37] Terri Gibbs – country music singer and musician. Blind Roosevelt Graves – American blues guitarist and singer, who recorded both sacred and secular music in the 1920s and 1930s. [38] Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu – indigenous Australian singer-songwriter.