Sad to hear today that Canadian (Toronto) blues guitarist Jeff Healey has died, just 41. He's by no means a household name, and his music sounded very unoriginal IMO. He does however have a remarkable story.
After losing both of his eyes to cancer aged one, he took pleasure in music and first played guitar aged 3. Not having ever seen how it should be played, he just did what seemed easiest for someone with small hands to get a note out of it, and thus developed a very strange looking technique : rather than hold the guitar in conventional fashion with its neck resting in the left palm, he sits it on his lap, face up, and puts his fingertips on it as if he was playing piano.
It's a really awkward, impossible looking technique, but the blues solos he produces are incredible. I just watched some on YouTube and still don't understand how he did it.