Showman Kip Sweeny was born deaf, but it didn’t handicap him. Instead, it gave him a rare gift for mimicry.
“When I was a kid,” he said, “I’d turn the music way up, to hear what little I could. And I’d mimic everything I heard, because I felt I didn’t have my own voice.”
Now, with surgically replaced eardrums and long practice, he not only has his own voice, but also those of half a dozen other artists…