From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Blind Willie Johnson (January 25, 1897 – September 18, 1945) was an American gospel blues singer and guitarist and evangelist. His landmark recordings completed between 1927 and 1930—thirty songs in total—display a combination of powerful…
Lemon Henry “Blind Lemon” Jefferson (1893 –1929) American blues and gospel singer
Lemon Henry “Blind Lemon” Jefferson (September 24, 1893 – December 19, 1929) was an American blues and gospel singer, songwriter, and musician. He was one of the most popular blues singers of the 1920s and has been called the “Father…
Jazz and Disability Blof George McKAY
Jazz and disability: UK Disability History Month Leave a reply To mark UK Disability History Month (which is on the theme of music), here is a short piece taken from a chapter I’ve written about jazz and disability, to be…
Mandy Harvey American Deaf Singer Songwriter
Mandy Harvey Jazz singer Mandy Harvey always had a hearing problem. In her youth, she’d had infections that affected her hearing, but only to the point that she had to sit at the front of the class in order to…
‘Cripple’ Clarence Lofton 1887-1957 Jazz Piano
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,…
Rahsaan Roland Kirk 1935-1977 Blind Saxophinist
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…
Varetta Dillard 1933-1994, R&B disabled US singer
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…
Louis Thomas Hardin 1916-1999 Moondog
Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), also known as Moondog, was an American musician, composer, theoretician, poet and inventor of several musical instruments. He was blind from the age of 16. Hardin lived in New York…
Storefront & Street-Corner: Black Women Musicians with Disabilities Gospel to Blues to….
Storefront & Street-Corner: Black Women Musicians with Disabilities Gospel to Blues to…. August 8, 2015 by Leroy Moore It has been written time and time again about Black blind men on street corners in the heyday of gospel, blues and…
George Shearing blind jazz pianist 1919-2011
Sir George Albert Shearing, (13 August 1919 – 14 February 2011) was a British jazz pianist who for many years led a popular jazz group that recorded for Discovery Records, MGM Records and Capitol Records. The composer of over 300…