US blind pianist Ivan Dalia hits the right notes onstage and on rock walls


Dalia (centre) performs with James (on guitar) at a restaurant in New York. Photos: The New York Times/Michelle V. Aging

Ivan Dalia, a pianist and composer who merges jazz with classical and world music, was born blind.

It was tough for him growing up in a working-class family in Teverola, Italy, a small town near Naples that he describes as “a concrete jungle in the countryside”.

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