The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind. As of 2008, they continue to tour nationally and internationally, with Jimmy Carter singing lead vocals. In 2006, Clarence Fountain, the group's former long-time lead vocalist and founding member limited his touring for health reasons.

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  • The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind. As of 2008, they continue to tour nationally and internationally, with Jimmy Carter singing lead vocals. In 2006, Clarence Fountain, the group's former long-time lead vocalist and founding member limited his touring for health reasons. Another founding member, George Scott, died on March 9, 2005 at the age of 75. Releases by the group in recent years have been favorites at the Grammy Awards—they won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional Soul Gospel Album every year between 2002 to 2005. The Blind Boys of Alabama were inducted into the Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2007. In the early 1980s, the Blind Boys of Alabama performed in the Obie Award-winning musical The Gospel at Colonus; their involvement in the production has continued into the twenty-first century, most recently with a 2008 performance in Athens,, where Jimmy Carter took over the role of Oedipus originally created by Clarence Foster. Their rendition of Tom Waits' "Way Down in the Hole" was used as the theme song of the HBO series The Wire in its first season. Their cover of Ben Harper's "I Shall Not Walk Alone" was featured in the first season of ABC's Lost, in the episode "Confidence Man". The Blind Boys were featured on the Imus in the Morning radio and TV show on November 30, 2006, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno on December 20, 2006 and March 11 2008, and on Late Night With Conan O'Brien on February 1, 2008. They have collaborated with numerous artists, including Ben Harper, Aaron Neville and Mavis Staples. They have joined Tom Petty, John Fogerty, and Peter Gabriel on tour, and will tour with Taj Mahal in 2008. In a surprise to both the band and the audience, the Blind Boys were joined by Prince on stage in a March 7, 2008 show at the Knitting Factory in Hollywood, California.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama ist eine Gospelgruppe aus Alabama, die im Jahre 1939 am Talladega Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind in Talladega unter dem Namen The Happyland Singers von fünf blinden Männern gegründet wurde. Als sie im Jahre 1948 zusammen mit den Jackson Harmonies, einer anderen Gruppe blinder Sänger auftreten sollten, ließ der Veranstalter das Konzert als Wettbewerb zwischen den Five Blind Boys of Alabama und den Five Blind Boys of Mississippi anpreisen. Beide Ensembles behielten diese Namen daraufhin bei. Die Blind Boys of Alabama stehen in der Tradition des vierstimmigen Gospel-Satzgesanges, der Gesangsmelodien dramatisch kontrastieren lässt. Dieser Stil war zunächst in religiösen Kreisen verbreitet, ist dann durch Gruppen wie das Golden Gate Quartet säkularisiert worden und besaß seinerzeit in Birmingham (Alabama) ein Zentrum. Die Gruppe trat mehrere Jahrzehnte lang bei afrikanisch-amerikanischen Gospelkonzerten auf, unter anderem in den 1950er Jahren in großen Veranstaltungen zusammen mit den Soul Stirrers, den Pilgrim Travelers, und den Blind Boys of Mississippi. Anfang der 1980er Jahre wirkten sie in dem Musical The Gospel at Colonus mit, welches die klassische griechische Tragödie Ödipus auf Kolonos von Sophokles von dem Prediger einer zeitgenössischen Pfingstgemeinde erzählen lässt. Diese Produktion gewann einen Obie Award und brachte den Blind Boys of Alabama einen Popularitätssprung. Heutzutage sind von den Chorgründern noch der Melodiesänger Jimmy Lee Carter aktiv, der weitere Gründer und langjährige Melodiesänger Clarence Fountain hat seine Konzertreisen aus Gesundheitsgründen eingeschränkt, und George Scott, ein drittes Ursprungsmitglied, ist am 9. März 2005 im Alter von 75 Jahren verstorben. Von 2002 bis 2005 gewannen sie viermal in Folge den Grammy für das beste traditionelle Soul-Gospelalbum (2005 gemeinsam mit Ben Harper). Die Gruppe hat mit zahlreichen Künstlern zusammengearbeitet, unter anderem Aaron Neville, Tom Waits, Mavis Staples, Bonnie Raitt, Randy Travis, Solomon Burke, Lou Reed und Mahalia Jackson. Die Blind Boys of Alabama haben Tourneen zusammen mit Tom Petty und Peter Gabriel unternommen.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama es un grupo de gospel del estado de Alabama de los Estados Unidos. La primer formación del grupo se dio en 1939 en el Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind (Instituto de Alabama por el Negro Ciego). Hasta el 2006 el grupo tuvo varios cambios en el número de integrantes y comenzó a incursionar en mezclas de gospel con otros géneros como el blues, pero siempre con temáticas religiosas típicas del gospel. Desde el 2002 hasta el 2005 ganaron el Grammy por el mejor álbum de soul gospel tradicional. En el 2002 The Blind Boys of Alabama fue incluido en la sala de la fama del gospel. Una versión del tema "Way Down In the Hole" de Tom Waits interpretada por ellos fue utilizada en la presentación de la primer temporada de la serie The Wire del canal HBO. En el 2002 colaboraron como coristas en el tema Sky Blue del disco Up de Peter Gabriel.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama est un groupe de musique gospel de l'Alabama formé à l'origine dans l'Institut pour les aveugles noirs d'Alabama (Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind) en 1939; il comprend Clarence Fountain, Jimmy Carter, George Scott et Joey Williams.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama är en amerikansk gospelgrupp från Alabama, som bildades 1939 vid Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind och på senare år har uppnått en form av kultstatus i amerikanska musikkretsar. Gruppen har, med flera av de ursprungliga medlemmarna, vunnit samtliga Grammy-pris i sin kategori (bästa traditionella gospel-album) 2002-2006.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama, 1939 yılında Alabama'daki Institute for the Negro Blind'da kurulan bir gospel grubudur. Grubun üç ana vokalisti ve bateristinin gözleri görmemektedir. 2008 yılı itibarıyla Jimmy Lee Carter'ın da vokal desteğiyle de uluslararası bir turneye çıktılar. Grubun ana vokalisti ve kurucu üyesi Clarence Fountain, sağlık sorunları nedeniyle turneye bazı konserlerde katılabildi. Kurucu üyelerden George Scott, 9 Mart 2005'te yetmiş beş yaşında hayatını kaybetti. Grubun son yıllardaki yayınları Grammy Ödülleri'nde çok popüler oldu. 2002 ve 2005 yılları arasında her yıl En İyi Geleneksel Soul Gospel Albümü kategorisinde ödülü kazandılar. Grup, 2007'de Gospel Music Hall of Fame'e alındı. Grubun Ben Harper cover'ı "I Shall Not Walk Alone", Lost dizisinin "Confidence Man" bölümünde kullanıldı.
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  • The Blind Boys of Alabama are a gospel group from Alabama that first formed at the Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind at Talladega, Alabama in 1939. The three main vocalists of the group and their drummer/percussionist are all blind. As of 2008, they continue to tour nationally and internationally, with Jimmy Carter singing lead vocals. In 2006, Clarence Fountain, the group's former long-time lead vocalist and founding member limited his touring for health reasons.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama ist eine Gospelgruppe aus Alabama, die im Jahre 1939 am Talladega Institute for the Negro Deaf and Blind in Talladega unter dem Namen The Happyland Singers von fünf blinden Männern gegründet wurde. Als sie im Jahre 1948 zusammen mit den Jackson Harmonies, einer anderen Gruppe blinder Sänger auftreten sollten, ließ der Veranstalter das Konzert als Wettbewerb zwischen den Five Blind Boys of Alabama und den Five Blind Boys of Mississippi anpreisen.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama es un grupo de gospel del estado de Alabama de los Estados Unidos. La primer formación del grupo se dio en 1939 en el Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind (Instituto de Alabama por el Negro Ciego). Hasta el 2006 el grupo tuvo varios cambios en el número de integrantes y comenzó a incursionar en mezclas de gospel con otros géneros como el blues, pero siempre con temáticas religiosas típicas del gospel.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama est un groupe de musique gospel de l'Alabama formé à l'origine dans l'Institut pour les aveugles noirs d'Alabama (Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind) en 1939; il comprend Clarence Fountain, Jimmy Carter, George Scott et Joey Williams.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama är en amerikansk gospelgrupp från Alabama, som bildades 1939 vid Alabama Institute for the Negro Blind och på senare år har uppnått en form av kultstatus i amerikanska musikkretsar. Gruppen har, med flera av de ursprungliga medlemmarna, vunnit samtliga Grammy-pris i sin kategori (bästa traditionella gospel-album) 2002-2006.
  • The Blind Boys of Alabama, 1939 yılında Alabama'daki Institute for the Negro Blind'da kurulan bir gospel grubudur. Grubun üç ana vokalisti ve bateristinin gözleri görmemektedir. 2008 yılı itibarıyla Jimmy Lee Carter'ın da vokal desteğiyle de uluslararası bir turneye çıktılar. Grubun ana vokalisti ve kurucu üyesi Clarence Fountain, sağlık sorunları nedeniyle turneye bazı konserlerde katılabildi.
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