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Sean Forbes, American Deaf Rapper

Posted on: November 18, 2018 Last updated on: November 18, 2018
Sean Forbes Sean Forbes has been deaf as long as he can remember. He’s also wanted to be a musician for just as long. Forbes became profoundly deaf when he developed a severe illness at only one year old. However,…
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Pharrell’s “Happy” in ASL by Deaf Film Camp at CM7

Posted on: November 18, 2018 Last updated on: November 18, 2018
This video is an ASL interpretation of Pharrell Williams’s “Happy.” An expression of music in ASL composed by Rosa Lee Timm and Azora Telford. The video was produced by a team of Deaf campers & staff from Deaf Film Camp…
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Trio Beethoven’s Nightmare

Posted on: November 18, 2018 Last updated on: November 18, 2018
Beethoven’s Nightmare For three teenagers attending Galludet University, a school for deaf and hard of hearing students in Washington, D.C., it wasn’t their disability that brought them together, but their love of rock ‘n’ roll. In 1971, Bob Hiltermann (drums),…
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Janine Roebuck Deaf Opera Singer UK

Posted on: November 18, 2018 Last updated on: November 18, 2018
Janine Roebuck Progressive deafness ran in the family, but Britain’s Janine Roebuck wasn’t worried. She’d never had problems before, so she continued to pursue her love of music. However, while she was studying at Manchester University, she noticed that some…
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Cher 1946- Dyslexia

Posted on: November 16, 2018 Last updated on: November 16, 2018
Cher is well known for both her singing and acting career, though not many people are aware she has had problems with dyslexia her entire life. As her dyslexia went undiagnosed in school, her teachers simply thought that she wasn’t…
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‘Cripple’ Clarence Lofton 1887-1957 Jazz Piano

Posted on: November 16, 2018 Last updated on: November 16, 2018
Cripple Clarence Lofton 1887-1957 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Cripple Clarence Lofton Background information Birth name Albert or Clarence Clemens Born March 28, 1887 or 1897 Kingsport or Burns, Tennessee, United States Died January 9,…
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Rahsaan Roland Kirk 1935-1977 Blind Saxophinist

Posted on: November 16, 2018 Last updated on: November 16, 2018
Rahsaan Roland Kirk From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to navigationJump to search Rahsaan Roland Kirk Kirk performing in 1972 Background information Birth name Ronald Theodore Kirk Born August 7, 1935 Columbus, Ohio, United States Died December 5, 1977 (aged…
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Peg Leg Howell 1888 1966

Posted on: November 16, 2018 Last updated on: November 16, 2018
Peg Leg Howell 1888 1966 From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Joshua Barnes Howell, known as Peg Leg Howell (March 5, 1888 – August 11, 1966), was an African-American blues singer and guitarist, who connected early country blues and the later…
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Lili Boulanger 1894- 1918 composer Crohn’s

Posted on: November 16, 2018 Last updated on: November 16, 2018
Lili Boulanger – composer BBC Radio 3 – Composer of the Week: Lili Boulanger The younger sister of Nadia Boulanger, a famous music teacher, Lili Boulanger died of Crohn’s disease aged just 24 in 1918. But before she died,…
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Varetta Dillard 1933-1994, R&B disabled US singer

Posted on: November 16, 2018 Last updated on: November 16, 2018
Varetta Dillard (3 February 1933 – 4 October 1993) was an American rhythm and blues singer in the 1950s whose biggest hit was “Mercy, Mr. Percy”. She was born in Harlem, New York, and spent much of her childhood in…
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