Evelyn Glennie

Evelyn Glennie is a Scottish percussionist, born in 1965 and raised on a farm in the north-east of Scotland. She began losing her hearing at the age of eight and has been profoundly deaf since childhood. She studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London and built an international solo career, winning two Grammy Awards and the 2015 Polar Music Prize. She recorded "My Spine" with Björk and appears in the film Touch the Sound.