Description: (Musician)
Moondog, also known as Louis Thomas Hardin, was a self-taught American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet, and inventor of musical instruments. Despite losing his sight at 16, he drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American, and Latin American music. His rhythmic and contrapuntal compositions influenced minimal music composers like Steve Reich and Philip Glass. He lived in New York City from the late 1940s to 1972, where he composed, performed poetry, and sold records on Sixth Avenue.