Tom Sullivan (singer)

Tom Sullivan ( born March 27, 1947 in West Roxbury, Massachusetts) is an American singer, author, athletes and entertainers.

Life

Tom Sullivan was born too soon and had to be cared for in an incubator at first. Due to an error in the oxygen supply he went blind, but survived without further damage. He was trained at the Perkins Institute for the Blind at Providence College and Harvard. As a child he learned to play the piano, and later he became a singer, composer and entertainer.

In 1969, he married Patricia M. Steffen; from the marriage were born two children.

1975 came his autobiographical work If You Could See What I Hear, which became a bestseller. In 1982 the book with Marc Singer was filmed in the lead role; Sullivan wrote a large part of the soundtrack. Other books that he wrote, were Common Sense, You Are Special and The Leading Lady. Dinah's story, the story of his blind dog. This book was also a best seller. This was followed by Special Parent, Special Child, That Nelson and seeing Lessons. Adventures in Darkness appeared in a German translation, entitled The summer when my life began. Sullivan also wrote Together, Alive Day and A Holy Spirit.

Sullivan worked for the show Good Morning America and appeared in several television series and films such as Designing Women, Highway to Heaven, Fame, M * A * S * H Mork & Mindy and. He was nominated for two Emmy Awards and is the only living winner of the Helen Keller Award for his life's work.