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3. Prince. Like many people on this list, Prince made up for not being able to read sheet music by having an unusually good ear for melody and an intuitive sense of what chord should go where. He ...
Leslie Lemke was born prematurely in Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1952. As a complication of his premature birth, he developed retinal problems, then glaucoma, and his eyes had to be surgically removed in the first months of life.
On his introductory visit to the school, in the music room he broke free from his parents, then headed straight for a piano being played. He pushed the player aside to take over. The player encouraged him and arranged first weekly and then daily lessons. [4] [5] At age seven, Paravicini gave his first concert, at Tooting Leisure Centre in South ...
Court musician was a traditional profession for the blind in China in antiquity. The first musician mentioned in Chinese sources, Shi Kuang, was a blind performer in the 6th century BC. The Guilds of Blind Musicians and Fortune-Tellers, which were still around in China during the middle of the 20th century, claimed to have existed as far back ...
Kimio Eto (衛藤公雄, Etō Kimio) (surname Etō, born 28 September 1924 in Ōita – died 24 December 2012 [1]) was a blind Japanese musician who played the koto. He began musical training at the age of eight with the renowned master Michio Miyagi. When he was eleven, he composed his first work.
Keith Richards. Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards was the subject of numerous heroin busts during the 1960s and 1970s. He said he stopped using the drug after getting busted in Toronto in ...
Clive Wearing (born 11 May 1938) is a British former musicologist, conductor, tenor and pianist who developed chronic anterograde and retrograde amnesia in 1985. Since then, he has lacked the ability to form new memories and cannot recall aspects of his memories, frequently believing that he has only recently awoken from a comatose state.
Dave Grohl—the iconic musician from the rock band the Foo Fighters—revealed that he had hearing loss and tinnitus after years of playing loud music in studios and live shows. He now wears ...