Category: Music

Deaf piano player

KSLA-TV has a video report on a young deaf piano player in South Carolina. It is posted below or you can read it here.

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Deaf piano player

KSLA-TV has a video report on a young deaf piano player in South Carolina. It is posted below or you can read it here.

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Springsteen on Stage

Sign interpreters at this year's New Orleans Jazz Fest got a treat while they were translating the performance of Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band. The Boss decided to join them for a moment and you see the result in a video below. Holly Maniatty and Edie Jackson even got Springsteen to sign along with them.

Video report on Deaf Rapper

WIAT-TV in Minneapolis visited with SignMark when he was in town this week. No captioning, but you can read the story here.

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Deaf Musicians Rock Chicago

Mark Levin on guitar, Jake Bass on the keyboard and Sean Forbes get some press in the Chicago Tribune here.

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Signmark Tonight!

Finnish deaf rapper Signmark will perform tonight at the University of Minnesota. It's part of the school's Disability Services’ Deaf and Hard of Hearing Day. Read about his campus visit here.

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Joining the Band

A deaf teen will play in the marching band at the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville this fall. KTHV-TV has this video report below. No captioning, but you can read part of the story here.

Is Music Video an Insult to ASL?

Some members of the deaf community say a new music video is an insult. The video created by Mark Nakhla uses the Kanye West and Jay-Z song No Church in the Wild . Nakhla says he has studied ASL for a couple of years and utilized "American Sign Language shapes and sign language gestures." But the National Association of the Deaf says the video is "not an ASL interpretation in any sense, shape or form." Judge for yourself by watching the video posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.

Signmark in NY

Finnish Deaf rapper Signmark returned to New York City this week where he performed to a packed house. He uses sign language and a vocal interpreter to spread awareness of deaf music and culture through hip-hop. There's a summary of what happened here and a video of the event posted below on DeafNewsToday.com.

Deaf Rapper "Signmark" Performs at Gallatin - Captioned from Washington Square News on Vimeo.

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Sign Language Gaffe

The Sun reports on the controversy over signing in the new Paul McCartney video My Valentine here.

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