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…
Trio Beethoven’s Nightmare
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),…
Cher 1946- Dyslexia
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…
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…
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…
Ian Curtis (Joy Division) 1956–1980. Depression and Epilepsy
Curtis performing live with Joy Division at the Mayflower in Manchester in 1979 Background information Birth name Ian Kevin Curtis Born 15 July 1956 Stretford, Lancashire, England Died 18 May 1980 (aged 23) Macclesfield, Cheshire, England Genres Post-punk gothic rock…
Deaf Rave Deaf people face barriers all the time.Troi Lee
Deaf people face barriers all the time. I’m determined to make sure we can enjoy music too Troi LeeWednesday 24 Oct 2018 Deaf Rave is an event designed specifically for deaf clubbers and performers (Picture: Mohamed Zahid) Deaf people face barriers…
Charles Hazelwood’s Paraorchestra
One from the heart: Charles Hazlewood’s Paraorchestra https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/jun/27/charles-hazlewood-british-paraorchestra On 1 July, an orchestra made up of 18 disabled musicians will play their first concert. Charles Hazlewood reveals what inspired him to bring them together Charles Hazlewood Wed 27 Jun 2012 19.31 BSTFirst…
Connee/Connie Boswell 1907–1976. Jazz/Popular singer, polio survivor
“Connie Boswell (1907-76) was a white southern singer from New Orleans, first with two family members in a close harmony vocal trio as the Boswell Sisters in the 1930s, when they were major radio stars across the US, and then…
Ian Dury 1942–2000. Rock Performer and song writer, polio survivor
“Ian Dury (1942-2000), that ‘flaw of the jungle’, produced a remarkable and sustained body of work that explored issues of disability, in both personal and social contexts, institutionalisation, and to a lesser extent the pop cultural tradition of disability”, George…