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[[File:JeffHealeyAug312002.jpg|thumb|300px|Jeff Healey at the Long Beach Blues Festival, August 31, 2002]]
Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey was a Canadian musician born in 1966. At the age of eight months, he was stricken with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer. He underwent surgery to [[Eye Scream|remove both eyes]], which [[Captain Obvious|rendered him blind for life]]. Jeff took up guitar [[Child Prodigy|at age 3]], developing a unique playing technique in which he lay the instrument flat across his lap, with his left hand palm-down over the fretboard, resulting in a characteristic richness and fluidity that would become his signature style. As a teenager, he began establishing a name for himself by playing coffeehouses and bars around Toronto.
In 1989, after a chance discovery by [[Stevie Ray Vaughan]], the [[Face of the Band|Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[Signature Song|"Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the [[So Bad It's Good]] [[Patrick Swayze]] movie ''[[Road House]]'', as a [[Typecasting|blind white guy who plays a mean blues guitar]]. The band went on to release several more blues albums. They toured extensively and developed a loyal following.
Later on, Jeff got married and started a family, as well as releasing a few jazz albums with his side project, the Jazz Wizards. Sadly, he succumbed to a recurrence of the cancer in 2008.
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'''With the ''Jeff Healey Band'''''
* ''See the Light'' (1988)
* ''Hell to Pay'' (1990)
* ''Feel This'' (1992)
* ''Cover to Cover'' (1995)
* ''Get Me Some'' (2000)
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* ''Among Friends'' (2002)
* ''Live at Healey's'' (2003)
* ''Adventures in Jazzland'' (2004)
* ''It's Tight Like That'' (2006)
* ''Mess of Blues'' (2008)
* ''Songs From The Road'' (2009)
* ''Last Call'' (2010)
He also has five live albums and six compilation albums.
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* [[Blind Musician]]: See ''Inspirationally Disabled'' below.
* [[Canada, Eh?]]
* [[Happily Adopted]]
* [[Inspirationally Disabled]]: Lost his sight at the age of one, began learning guitar at three, and ended up developing a distinctive style of playing which eventually made him a star.
* [[Jazz]]
* [[Rock and Roll]]
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