Bonnie Hearne

Blind singer and pianist who was based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She was born in Corsicana, Texas. She had been blind since 9 years old. She learned to play piano as a child at the Texas School for the Blind in Austin, her earliest influences being gospel and folk music. She met Bill Hearne, who is legally blind, through a mutual friend in Austin in 1968, soon after she earned a degree in sociology from the University of Texas. Bill Hearne was going to the university then. The two got together and sang a few old songs by folk music icons Ian & Sylvia.