SYNOPSIS: "Ignazio Silvaio Di Palermo was born in an Italian neighborhood in New York's East Harlem in 1926. He was born blind but was raised in a close, vivid, lusty world bounded by his grandfather's love, his mother's volatility, his huge array of relatives, weekly feasts, discovery of girls, the exhilaration of music and his great talent leading to a briefly idolized jazz career."