The Blind Boys of Alabama formed in 1939 at the Alabama Institute for the Blind, the group has been active for more than 85 years, witnessing the Jim Crow South and the Civil Rights Movement. Unlike contemporaries like Sam Cooke, the group famously refused to “cross over” to secular pop in the 1950s despite lucrative offers, choosing to stick to their spiritual calling. In their later years, they became legendary for collaborating with a vast range of artists across genres, including Prince, Lou