not only for black artists but for disabled musicians. The “Georgia on My Mind” singer became one of a few blind black pianists to reach global stardom. As one of the first black mainstream ...

In subsequent decades, many blind black musicians would find their disability attached to their name, part of their ‘branding’. After Wiggins’s death in 1908, the music industry promoted ...

Probably that he has had his eyed tattooed completely black (the process of which reportedly almost made him go blind ... however and is still making music. Having your eyeball tattooed is ...

Then the New York-based singer-songwriter takes more time to describe herself than most people. She offers a visual self-description for blind people in her audience, saying she is a Black woman ...

“A person who was born blind, who was born into enslavement, a fantastic musician, but was autistic by modern terms today,” ...

Blind auditions, as they became known ... (top left), participating in an online panel discussion among leading Black musicians. “As we speak,” she said in a recent online roundtable ...

Amadou Bagayoko (1954-2025), iconic Malian guitarist, singer and composer of the famed duo Amadou & Mariam – known as “the blind couple of Mali” – passed away on 4 April in Bamako. He was 70. The ...

is for Tony The Killers There were many real blind, black bluesman ... How did this group of blind musicians, faced with all the disadvantages of race, segregation, disability and poverty ...