Legally blind from birth, Brazilian keyboard player, composer and bandleader Manfredo Fest learnt to read music in braille and began studying classical music at a young age. By 17 he had fallen in love with jazz, before becoming swept up in Rio’s emergent bossa nova movement in the sixties. In 1967 he moved to the US where he would work with Sergio Mendes, and spent the rest of his life. ... more