Mohammed 'Jimmy' Mohammed

Mohammed 'Jimmy' Mohammed was an Ethiopian vocalist. After becoming blind as a child, supposedly as a curse for his parents' decision to ignore the warnings of a fortune teller and baptize him, as God had willed him to be a Muslim, Mohammed ran away and spent several years on the streets, homeless, begging for food, finding solace in the songs of legendary vocalist Tlahoun Gèssèssè (immortalized in several volumes of the amazing Ethiopiques series) who not only sang beautifully