He’s known as "the Golden Voice of Africa" but the life of the Malian musician Salif Keita has been one defined by hardship and prejudice. Salif was born with albinism and was exiled at a young age due to the white colour of his skin which was seen as a sign of bad luck by his community. 포장이사업체
Salif found a voice and a place for himself through music and throughout his career he has used his voice to campaign for the rights of the albino community. In 2005 he founded the Salif Keita Global Foundation to raise awareness of the condition. 홍은동용달이사
At 70 years old he still campaigning through music, this year saw the release of his 14th album, Un Autre Blanc (Another White), which he says will be his last. It’s a work of music that continues his fight for justice for people living with albinism, who can still suffer abuse and even violence. 수유동용달이사
Listen to Salif Keita interviewed on The Cultural Frontline 고야드여성의류=고야드여성의류
2. Mana Hashimoto (dancer, Japan) As a little girl growing up in Japan, Mana Hashimoto dreamed of being a dancer. She trained in ballet into her teenage years but, when optic nerve atrophy began to affecting her vision, everything began to change. Mana kept dancing and moved to New York to continue her training. Within a year she had lost her sight completely and it seemed that her dream was over. 일산동구용달이사
Although she feared for her future, Mana resolved that her relationship with dance was not over. She would create something different; something that reflected her experience as a blind artist. Mana carried her dance shoes everywhere she went and began to memorise and refine her movements through what she could feel physically, and what she could hear. As she perfected this new technique, she began to perform in front of audiences once again. Mana now runs a dance workshop in New York called Dance Without Sight, which brings the sighted and the visually impaired together.