Directory
Blind creators
A growing archive of blind musicians, DJs, actors, authors, and creators. Search by name or filter by discipline.
148 results.
-
James Tate Hill
Legally blind author of the memoir Blind Man's Bluff, about losing his sight to Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy and hiding his blindness for fifteen years.
-
Jamie MacDonald
Blind Scottish comedian; BBC Radio 4's Life on the Blink.
-
Jason Dasent
Blind Trinidadian music producer, keyboardist and engineer who runs Studio Jay Recording and consults on accessibility for music-tech companies like Native Instruments and Ableton.
-
Jennie Bovard
Halifax-based comedian with albinism who is legally blind; she created and hosts AMI's Low Vision Moments podcast, which inspired the AMI-tv comedy series Pretty Blind.
-
Jesse Anderson (IllegallySighted)
Jesse Anderson, known as IllegallySighted, is a legally blind gamer, YouTuber, and technology, game, and XR accessibility advocate and consultant based in the United States.
-
Jill Daley
Scottish broadcaster and journalist who lost her sight at 19 to diabetic retinopathy; she presents on RNIB Connect Radio (formerly Insight Radio) for blind and partially sighted listeners.
-
Jim Knipfel
Blind columnist and memoirist; author of Slackjaw.
-
Julia LaGrand
Blind classical violinist from Grand Rapids, Michigan, featured on NPR's From the Top and a co-creator of its initiative celebrating young disabled musicians.
-
Justin Kauflin
Award-winning American jazz pianist and composer who lost his sight at age 11; mentored by Clark Terry and a longtime Quincy Jones collaborator, with the score for the Oscar-nominated documentary …
-
Kim Han-sol (Wonshot Hansol)
South Korean YouTuber known as Wonshot Hansol who lost his sight as a student to Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy; he shares blind-life content and won Korea's first braille silver play …
-
Krishna Washburn
Blind ballet dancer and founder of Dark Room Ballet.
-
Kristy Viers
Kristy Viers is a totally-blind-since-birth American YouTuber who demonstrates how blind people use the iPhone with VoiceOver and braille screen input, teaching developers and users about accessibility.
-
Lachi
Legally blind recording artist, songwriter, and disability-culture advocate who founded RAMPD, Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities.
-
Andre Louis
London-based blind musician and producer (who records as Onj), composing across many genres and championing accessible music-production software.
-
Low Wee Keong
Low Wee Keong is a blind Penang cook and former aircraft engineer who runs the YouTube channel "Blind In The Kitchen," sharing Malaysian recipes he prepares and films himself.
-
Lucy Illingworth
Blind British classical pianist who, at age 13, won Channel 4's The Piano and performed at the King's Coronation Concert; left totally blind by infant retinoblastoma.
-
M. Leona Godin
Blind writer, performer, and educator who lost her sight to retinal dystrophy; author of There Plant Eyes: A Personal and Cultural History of Blindness.
-
Maribel Steel
Blind Australian author of Blindness for Beginners and speaker.
-
Marilee Talkington
First legally blind actor in a Broadway principal role; founder of Access Acting Academy.
-
Matt Carson
Totally blind Ohio-based Americana and country singer-songwriter and producer who plays most instruments and self-produces his work, including his 2019 album "No Regrets."
-
Mattmac
Mattmac (Matthew Monias) is a blind Oji-Cree pop/trap artist and self-taught producer from Garden Hill First Nation, Manitoba, and a Canada's Walk of Fame RBC Emerging Musician winner.
-
Maud Rowell
Blind journalist; author of Blind Spot.
-
Menuka Poudel
Menuka Poudel is a visually impaired (blind from birth) Nepali playback singer from Jhapa who competed on Indian Idol 14 and recorded a song for the film Salaar.
-
Raul Midon
American singer-songwriter and virtuoso guitarist, blind since infancy, and a two-time Grammy nominee blending jazz, soul, and folk.