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Famous People With it

You can live a full and normal life with synesthesia. Lots of famous and successful people experience this phenomenon. Examples include:

- Kanye West

- Pharrell Williams

- Mary J. Blige

- Tori Amos

- Duke Ellington

- Lorde

- Vladimir Nabokov (acclaimed writer; wrote in his autobiography of his “colored hearing”)

Painters Vincent van Gogh and Joan Mitchell are also speculated to have had synesthesia.

Hearing in color and reading colors into words on a page adds a level of dimension to life that many of us can only dream of.