Tsutomu Aragaki

Tsutomu Aragaki born 1952 in Yomitan Okinawa Prefecture is a Japanese tenor. He was born in Yomitan Okinawa Prefecture. He was blinded shortly after birth when a midwife put overlystrong drops in his eyes. When he was a year old his parents divorced and his MexicanAmerican father went back to the United States. His mother who was Okinawan remarried when he was still a child and Tsutomu was sent to live with his maternal grandmother. His grandmother raised him until he was 14 when she died leaving him without relatives in Japan. One day Tsutomu heard a hymn on the radio. This led him to visit a church where he told the minister about his life. Sympathetic to Tsutomus loss the minister took him in and raised him as family. It was this meeting that led Tsutomu both to sing and to become a Baptist minister. The song Sugar Cane Field was top three in classical CD sales in Japan in 2002. Source: Wikipedia