Question: What famous North Carolina folk singer was blind by age 2?
Answer: Doc Watson, a folk singer and guitarist born in 1923 in Stony Fork, North Carolina, suffered an eye infection that blinded him before the age of 2. Watson grew up on a farm and taught himself to play the guitar, banjo, and harmonica. Watson popularized the flat-picking guitar style and became a key figure in bluegrass, country, folk, and rock music during the folk music revival of the 1960s.
