Happiness Between Tails
Jan 26, 2022
Making Music Blind During Covid by Noé Socha
#COVID-19 #Musicians #Creativity #Disabilities
Did Covid impact your creativity? Noé Socha, a musician, discusses how being blind makes navigating lockdowns especially difficult. Record your questions, thoughts, and/or experiences on my Anchor by Spotify page — or comment at HappinessBetweenTails.com — or email me. Like what you hear? Buy me a coffee.
Time Stamps (where segments begin):
- HBT introduction
- Today’s topic and about today’s guest 1:05
- “My Experience as a Blind Musician During Covid,” by Noehh Socha
- My question for you and outro
- HBT outro
Links used for the HBT blog post of this episode:
- Noé Socha's website.
- Original blog post for this episode at Happiness Between Tails.
- About Ernest Hemingway at Wikipedia.
- One of Noé’s many music videos at his YouTube Blind Selfie channel. In this one, Kenya appears as a backup dancer.
- Video for CBS New York News interview of Noé.
- Info on where Noé grew up in Carpi, Italy, and a video of the how the lovely place coped with an earthquake.
- Spotify, where he’s released albums and garnered top awards from the Berklee College of Music and Billboard Magazine.
- Breedlove, an Oregon guitar manufacturer that added him to their stellar lineup of signature artists.
- The oldest harmonica manufacturer, Seydel, a German company founded in 1847, invited him to collaborate; here Noé demonstrates one of their harmonica holders on his Facebook page.
- Video where Mastercard recognizes he’s “Something Priceless.”
- Access-A-Ride made it possible for him to not need to take public transportation.
Photos available at the HBT post for this show:
- Photo of Noé playing music.