Raul Midón

Raul Midón is a Grammy-nominated contemporary singer/songwriter whose impassioned acoustic guitar playing -- which traverses pop, jazz, soul, urban, cumbia, and flamenco -- has garnered as much attention as his smooth singing and sophisticated writing. Blind since birth, Midón's breezy style has endeared him to jazz and pop audiences on both sides of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. His sweet, silky tenor delivery and poignant, emotional phrasing have been influenced by everyone from Bill Withers and Michael Franks to Donny Hathaway and D'Angelo. Though he began his career as ...