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* CanadaEh: He was born in Toronto, Canada.
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In 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[EgocentricTeamNaming Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse1989'', 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.

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In 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[EgocentricTeamNaming Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse1989'', 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.
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* BlindMusician: At eight months, he got infected with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer, which necessitated the doctors' decision to [[EyeScream remove both eyes]] to prevent further spread. His eyes were replaced with prosthetic ones, but he remained blind for life. However, it didn't stop him from developing good guitar [[ChildProdigy at the age of 3]], and his blindness made him adapt by 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.

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* BlindMusician: At eight months, he got infected with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer, which necessitated the doctors' decision to [[EyeScream remove both eyes]] to prevent further spread. His eyes were replaced with prosthetic ones, but he remained blind for life. However, it didn't stop him from developing good guitar skills [[ChildProdigy at the age of 3]], and his blindness made him adapt by 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.
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In 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse1989'', 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.

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In 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand [[EgocentricTeamNaming Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse1989'', 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.
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In 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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In 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', ''Film/RoadHouse1989'', 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.
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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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In 1989, 1988, after a chance discovery by Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, Music/StevieRayVaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.



* BlindMusician
* CanadaEh
* HappilyAdopted - He never knew his natural parents, but the couple who adopted him were supportive and encouraging.

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* BlindMusician
BlindMusician: At eight months, he got infected with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer, which necessitated the doctors' decision to [[EyeScream remove both eyes]] to prevent further spread. His eyes were replaced with prosthetic ones, but he remained blind for life. However, it didn't stop him from developing good guitar [[ChildProdigy at the age of 3]], and his blindness made him adapt by 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.
* CanadaEh
CanadaEh: He was born in Toronto, Canada.
* HappilyAdopted - HappilyAdopted: He never knew his natural parents, but the couple who adopted him were supportive and encouraging.encouraging.
* ICantBelieveAGuyLikeYouWouldNoticeMe: A gender-inverted example in "Angel Eyes", which is about a guy who has a crush on a beautiful girl he believes he has no chance with because all the other guys are crushing on the same girl. When the girl ''does'' notice him (and returns his crush), he is so baffled that he asks "the stars above" how he managed to get the girl's attention and why.
--> ''So tonight I'll ask the stars above''\\
''"How did I ever win your love?"''\\
''What did I do?''\\
''What did I say''\\
''To turn your [[TitleDrop angel eyes]] my way?''
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Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a Canadian musician. At the age of eight months, he was stricken with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer. He underwent surgery to [[EyeScream remove both eyes]], which [[CaptainObvious rendered him blind for life]]. Jeff took up guitar [[ChildProdigy 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.

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Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a Canadian musician. At the age of eight months, he was stricken with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer. He underwent surgery to [[EyeScream remove both eyes]], which [[CaptainObvious rendered him blind for life]].life. Jeff took up guitar [[ChildProdigy 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.
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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 [[EyeScream remove both eyes]], which [[CaptainObvious rendered him blind for life]]. Jeff took up guitar [[ChildProdigy 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.

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Jeff Norman Jeffrey "Jeff" Healey (March 25, 1966 – March 2, 2008) was a Canadian musician born in 1966.musician. At the age of eight months, he was stricken with retinoblastoma, a rare ocular cancer. He underwent surgery to [[EyeScream remove both eyes]], which [[CaptainObvious rendered him blind for life]]. Jeff took up guitar [[ChildProdigy 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.
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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records Creator/AristaRecords and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.
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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood PatrickSwayze Creator/PatrickSwayze movie ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.
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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood PatrickSwayze movie RoadHouse, 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.

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In 1989, after a chance discovery by Stevie Ray Vaughan, the [[FaceOfTheBand Jeff Healey Band]] signed with Arista Records and launched their debut album, spawning the John Hiatt-written single [[SignatureSong "Angel Eyes,"]] which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100. Healey also appeared in the SoBadItsGood PatrickSwayze movie RoadHouse, ''Film/RoadHouse'', 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.

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