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Blind Boys of Alabama |
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The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind in 1939. |
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Blind Abing |
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"Blind" Abing was a blind Chinese musician specializing in the erhu and pipa. |
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Turlough Carolan |
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Turlough Carolan (1670 - March 25, 1738) was a blind, itinerant early Irish harper, composer and singer whose great fame is due to his gift for melodic composition. |
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Fanny Crosby |
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Fanny Crosby (March 24, 1820 – February 12, 1915), was an American lyricist best known for her Protestant Christian hymns. |
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Udi Hrant Kenkulian |
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Udi Hrant Kenkulian (1901–August 29, 1978), often referred to as Udi Hrant ("oud-player Hrant") was an oud player of Turkish classical music. |
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Reinette L`Oranaise |
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Reinette L'Oranaise (Sultana Daoud, Born 1918, Tiaret, Algeria; died 17 November 1998, Paris) was an Algerian singer, who helped preserve Arab-Andalus music. |
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Ken Medema |
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Ken Medema (born on December 7, 1942, in Grand Rapids, Michigan) is a composer, singer, songwriter who has been performing in the United States and in Europe for more than 30 years. |
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Michio Miyagi |
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Michio Miyagi (April 7, 1894 - June 25, 1956) was a Japanese musician, famous for his koto playing. |
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Jacob Bazzel Mull |
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Jacob Bazzel Mull (born October 4, 1914 in Burke County, North Carolina - died September 05, 2006) was a Christian minister and religious broadcaster in East Tennessee. |
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Ginny Owens |
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Ginny Owens is a Contemporary Christian music singer/songwriter. |
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K.C. Dey |
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Krishna Chandra De (1893–1962) better known as K.C. Dey, was a Bengali actor, singer and music composer and teacher born in Calcutta (now Kolkata). |
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Arizona Dranes |
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Arizona Dranes (1891–1963) was one of the first gospel artists to bring the musical styles of Holiness churches' religious music to the public in her records for Okeh and performances in the 1920s. |
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The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi |
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The Five Blind Boys of Mississippi was a post-war gospel quartet. |
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Lirnyk |
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The lirnyk was an itinerant Ukrainian musician who performed religious, historical and epic songs to the accompaniment of a lira, the Ukrainian version of the hurdy-gurdy. |
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Ira D. Sankey |
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Ira D. Sankey (August 28, 1840 – August 13, 1908), known as The Sweet Singer of Methodism, was an American gospel singer and composer, associated with evangelist Dwight L. Moody. |
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Ostap Veresai |
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Ostap Mykytovych Veresai (Ukrainian: Остап Микитович Вересай), (1803–1890) was a renowned minstrel and kobzar from the Poltava Governorate (now Chernihiv poblast) of the Russian Empire (in today's Ukraine). |
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Filip Visnjic |
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Filip Visnjic (1767–1834) was a popular Serbian epic poet and guslar (gusle player), born in northern Bosnia. |
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Doc Watson |
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Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (born March 3, 1923) is an American guitar player, songwriter and singer of bluegrass, folk, country, blues and gospel music. |
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