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 * Tatum was born in Toledo, Ohio. His father, Arthur Tatum, Sr., was a guitarist and an elder at a Church he went to, where his mother, Mildred Hoskins, played piano. He had two siblings, Karl and Arlene. From infancy he suffered from a problem which left him blind in one eye and with problems. A number of surgical procedures improved his eye cone.

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 * In 1925, Tatum moved to the Columbus School for the Blind, where he studied music and learned braille. Subsequently he studied piano with Overton G. Rainey at either the Jefferson School or the Toledo School of Music. Rainey, who too was visually impaired, likely taught Tatum in the classical tradition, as Rainey did not improvise and discouraged his students from playing jazz. In 1927-1930 Tatum began playing on Toledo radio station WSPD as 'Arthur Tatum, Toledo's Blind Pianist', during interludes in Ellen Kay's shopping chat program and soon had his own program. By the age of 19, Tatum was playing with singer Jon Hendricks, also an Ohioan, at the local Waiters' and Bellmens' Club. As word of Tatum spread, national performers, including Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Joe Turnera degree but some of the benefits were reversed when he was assaulted in 1930 at age 20.
 * In the mid- 40s Art Tatum formed a jazz band containing Lionel [[image:http://rpmedia.ask.com/ts?u=/wikipedia/en/thumb/2/25/LionelHamptonArtTatumBuddyRich_Trio_Clef.jpg/180px-LionelHamptonArtTatumBuddyRich_Trio_Clef.jpg width="198" height="191" align="left"]]