The Cure
September 15, 2024

Leo Kofler: The dying singer who cured himself with music

Ted Gioia shares the latest installment in his series of essays on “Visionaries of Sound”, this time around about Leo Kofler, a man who Gioia says cured himself with music. At 23 years old, Kofler had been diagnosed with tuberculosis, a disease that killed most of his family. Kofler wasn't really much of singer, is appears, but what he did well was a breathing technique he developed. Kofler would live well into his seventies. Read the interesting story.