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Uncommon Vision
"Despite losing his central vision to macular degeneration at age 25, Colin O'Donohoe has achieved what most sighted musicians only dream of: composing music for Emmy-winning television, earning 7 million Spotify streams, performing at Rio's Sambadrome, and founding orchestras on five continents. As a composer, conductor, and cultural bridge-builder, Colin unites musicians from Iraq to Ireland, Mongolia to Brazil—proving that artistic vision transcends physical sight. His current projects include Dream CPR (therapeutic sleep music reaching listeners in 30+ countries), Apostrophate 'Me (an Irish-American musical), and Echoes from Arlington (his father's Vietnam memoir decoded with DBT skills for military families)
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“D'Artagnan of the Drums”
Colin's brother once joked that he was 'D'Artagnan of the Drums'—and looking back, he nailed it. Like that fearless Musketeer, Colin has built a career saying yes to rhythm wherever it takes him. From performing alongside jazz legend Clark Terry at the 1997 Paradise Valley Jazz Party to studying Senegalese Sabar drumming for months in West Africa, thundering through Rio's Sambadrome with Brazil's 2023 championship samba school Porto da Pedra, and collaborating with turntable legend DJ Qbert—Colin moves fluently between drum set, Irish bodhrán, and Middle Eastern doumbek. For three decades, he's treated rhythm as a universal language: playing blues in Cleveland and Antalya, bodhrán with a reggae band in Lomé, and performing with musicians from Dakar to Tokyo to Mongolia. Whether arranging percussion for Alice Cooper's Christmas Pudding or performing cross-cultural duets pairing doumbek with Chinese pipa, Colin proves that rhythm connects cultures and makes the whole world groove.
