Warren “Wawa” Snipe and Raven “Deaf Hottie” Sutton are making hip-hop more inclusive — and unraveling myths about the deaf community's relationship with music along the way, writes zaharahill.
The performances go beyond what many hearing people may understand as signing, leaning into dance and exaggerated facial expressions to more fully capture a song’s essence. These animated, visual personifications of music lend themselves to virality.
“People are always like, ‘Oh, deaf folks don’t like music. Why are they at a concert?’ We do,” Sutton, theFor deaf people, music is a kind of sensory experience that often requires visualization through sign language and feeling the vibrations of sounds. It’s one that Sutton, also known as Deaf Hottie, is well versed in.
“[Hearing] people can just listen to lyrics, incidentally, as they’re washing dishes and memorize what it is,” she continued. “But for me, as someone who’s deaf, I really have to study.”Artists sometimes stray from the recorded version of a song during concerts, which can make real-time interpretations difficult. That’s where “feeders” come in. Feeders aren’t deaf and can relay to an interpreter if there has been a change in the chronology or pacing of a song.to take into consideration.
But music didn’t always come easy for Snipe. As a child, it took weeks, sometimes months, for him to learn a song.
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