Ginny Owens is a famous contemporary Christian music singer who was born in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1975. She was unfortunately born with a degenerative eye condition which rendered her blind by the age of three.
Teresa Fay Gibbs (born June 15, 1954) is an American country music artist who is blind.
At a very young age, Bocelli was diagnosed with a rare condition which eventually led to him losing his sight in both eyes.
Andrea Bocelli lost his sight after a football accident when he was just 12 years old. The singer had already experienced problems with his eyes, and was diagnosed with glaucoma at an early age.
Stevie Wonder
One of the most successful blind musicians of all time is Michigan native, Stevie Wonder. He was born six weeks premature and his eyes never fully developed, and this condition is known as retinopathy of prematurity (ROP).
Monet, Degas and Van Gogh all had eyesight problems which prevented them from seeing clearly. But far from holding them back, their visual challenges made for even richer art. It seems that painting when you don't see very well can sometimes reveal a real gift.
Did you know Johnny Depp, Judith Dench, Steve Wynn and Fetty Wap are all visually impaired? One lost an eye to a BB gun. One has age-related macular degeneration. One had an eye surgically removed because of glaucoma.
Perhaps the most well known blind person was Helen Adams Keller (fig. 1), (June 27, 1880 - June 1, 1968), an American author, political activist, and lecturer. Helen Keller was the first deaf-blind person to earn a bachelor of arts degree. A prolific author, Keller was well-traveled and outspoken in her convictions.
Musicians who are blind can use a program called Sibelius Speaking in combination with JAWS screenreader and the Sibelius music program to notate music. Sibelius Speaking is a script that allows JAWS to interface with the Sibelius music notation program.
Early life. Bradley Walker is a native of Athens, Alabama. He was born with muscular dystrophy, and has been in a wheelchair all his life.
Geraldine Lawhorn — famous blind actress and performer and the first deafblind African American to earn a college degree in the U.S. Callan Mulvey — blind actor from Australia. Ed Walker — blind radio personality.
Stevie Wonder, one of the most famous musicians of our time, was born blind due to a condition called retinopathy of prematurity – an eye disease that occurs in a small percentage of premature babies where abnormal blood vessels grow on the retina. Despite the disease, Wonder has persevered.
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-- A deaf and blind man is learning to communicate a whole new way. He is creating expressive sculptures, thanks to training at the Helen Keller National Center on Long Island. On Wednesday, CBS2 spoke to Brooklyn-born Tony Giordano.
People who claim to have perfect pitch are invariably correct, says Hamilton, and when the researchers tested 7 of the 12, they confirmed the skill in each. The prevalence of perfect pitch among the blind musicians is about two to three times that usually reported for sighted musicians, says Hamilton.
Blind musicians are singers or instrumentalists, or in some cases singer-accompanists, who are legally blind.
Blindness was a symptom of diseases associated with malnutrition. Many of these people grew up in extreme poverty and sickness was rife. Once blind they were no good for working the land etc, so their only recourse was to sit down with a guitar as a means of earning money.
They may wear sunglasses to protect against UV light, to shield their eyes from bright light, or for aesthetic purposes. Additional reasons blind people sometimes wear sunglasses include maximizing their vision, protecting against injuries, and communicating their blindness to others.
Although they may need certain modifications to fully access digital video content, many blind and visually impaired people enjoy TV and movies just like everyone else.
Alice Walker
The American famous author lost her right eye at the age of 8. The brother shot her with a BB gun straight in the eye. The scar caused her embarrassment and this was the beginning of her career as an author. She won the National Book Award in 1983.
The worker, Robert Tarango, 55, is perhaps the first deaf-blind actor in a lead movie role.
When she was nineteen months old, an illness left Helen deaf, blind, and mute. An excitable, energetic child, she showed such signs of great intelligence that her mother sent for a private teacher. The teacher, young Anne Sullivan, herself formerly blind, managed to break through to communicate with Helen.
Combining the terms “blind” and “African American” in a search of the music world, two names come to the forefront: Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder.