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#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. buymeacoffee.com/SupportHBT

Time Stamps (where segments begin):

1. HBT introduction
2. Today’s topic and about today’s guest 1:05
3. “My Experience as a Blind Musician During Covid,” by Noehh Socha
4. My question for you and outro
5. 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.