Moondog

Moondog born Louis Thomas Hardin was an American musician composer theoretician poet and inventor of several musical instruments He was blind from the age of 16 Moondog lived in New York from the late 1940s until 1972 and during this time he could often be found on 6th Avenue between 52nd and 55th Streets wearing a cloak and a horned helmet sometimes busking or selling music but often just standing silently on the sidewalk He was widely recognized as the Viking of 6th Avenue by thousands of passersby and residents who werent aware of his musical career