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,…
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…
Gusttav Holst,1874 –1934, disabled composer
Gustav Holst Gustavus Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, on September 21, 1874. His father Adolph von Holst was a renowned pianist and his mother Clara was a student of his with whom he fell in love and married. Clara…
Thomas Quasthoff 1959- Thalidomide surviving Opera singer
Thomas Quasthoff 1959- From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia https://youtu.be/vItabu-xO9c?t=39 The Jazz Album Thomas Quasthoff 2010 Thomas Quasthoff (born November 9, 1959) is a Germanbass-baritone. Quasthoff has a range of musical interest from the Baroque cantatas of Bach, to lieder, and…
Mel Tillis, stutterer when talking not when singing’ Writer and performer of many Country Songs 1932-2017
Mel Tillis, stutterer when talking not when singing’ Writer and performer of many Country Songs 1932-2017 https://youtu.be/NTiDRF88JyU Ruby Don’t take Your Love to Town This is story of a vetran disabled in Vietnam War whose wife goes to town every…
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…
Kata Kolbert aka Penny Pepper
Penny Pepper, long time resident of Islington, is a disability activist, writer, poet and musician. In her excellent new book “First in the World Somewhere” she recounts her struggles for identity and trying to live her life. Growing up in…
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…
Representing Disability: A History in Art Panel Event National Archives 7th December, 3.30
Representing Disability: A History in Art Panel Event Richard Rieser Coordinator UKDHM one of Panelists 15:30 07-12-2018 The National Archives, Bessant Drive, Richmond, TW9 4DU Regular price £12.50 Full details and panellists to be announced soon.