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Raul Midón (born March 14, 1966) is a Grammy-nominated American singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Mexico. He has received back to back Grammy Nominations in the Best Vocal Jazz Album category, in 2017 for Bad Ass and Blind and in 2018 for If You Really Want with Vince Mendoza conducting the Metropole Orkest.

Midón was born prematurely in a rural hospital in Embudo, New Mexico, to parents of Argentine and African-American descent. His father was a folkloric dancer from Argentina. Midon and his twin brother Marco were blind as infants after spending time in an incubator without adequate eye protection. The sound of music became integral to Midon's life at age four when his father introduced him to the drum. Midon learned how to play guitar while performing in educational programs at a school for the blind, then at Santa Fe Preparatory School while completing his last two years of high school in 1984. Midon then attended the University of Miami, which he selected for its jazz curriculum. He graduated from the University of Miami in 1990.

If you like Raul Midón, you might also like People From Rio Arriba County, American Jazz Guitarists, American People Of Argentine Descent, and American Rhythm And Blues Singer-Songwriters.

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