Jessica White
How Deafness Shaped My Love of Music
Jessica White shares how being deaf has influenced her lifelong love of music, and how changing technology has shifted the way she engages with music.
As children we had hung over the tape deck, listening to Elaine Paige’s rendition of 'Memory' from Cats. No matter how many times I played the song, I couldn’t make out all the words, so I recruited my brother, gave him a pen and paper and asked him to write them down...This time I pulled the laptop towards me and searched for the lyrics on the internet to make sense of the tits on the radio.