People with synesthesia
Here you can find a list of famous actors, painters, singers, scientist, philosophers... with synesthesia. Most of them publicly recognize it, others are speculations and some of them we will never know for sure.
Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which the brain has cross-connections between the senses of taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch. This fact gives to the synesthetes abilities very helpful for careers as singers or painters because their imagination is stimulated constantly.
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Music-color synesthesia
- Pharrell Williams
- Tori Amos
- Rollo Armstrong
- Michel Gagné
- Steve Aylett
- Kilford
- Hélène Grimaud
- Sam Endicott
- David Hockney
- Franz Liszt
- W.A. Mozart
- Wasily Kandinsky
- Bob Dylan
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Music keys-color synesthesia
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Timbre-color synesthesia
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Phoneme-color synesthesia
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Sound-color synesthesia
- Marilyn Monroe
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Mary J. Blige
- John Mayer
- Jimi Hendrix
- Adil Omar
- Jean Sibelius
- Ida Maria Børli Sivertsen
- Eddie Van Halen
- Stevie Wonder
- Devin Townsend
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Verbal and visual synesthesia