Gave the Bethunes a right to Grimes's service for five years and making the Bethunes Grimes's legal guardians even after his family had Prior to the Civil War, Bethune forced Grimes's parents to sign an indenture agreement that Made his master as much as $50,000 a year. Under Bethune's direction, Grimes began giving public concerts at age eight and eventually Play for Grimes so that his repertoire would grow. Grimes demonstrated an ability to play by ear any piece of music he heard, and Bethune hired local bands to James Bethune and demonstrated an unusual aptitude for music at the age of four, when he replicated, without instruction, the piano music Grimes was sold with his parents in 1850 to Georgia, Grimes was named by his master Wiley Jones's teenaged daughter for one of her admirers. Born to Mingo Wiggins and a woman named Charity in Harris County, In the United States during the second half of the nineteenth century. Thomas Greene Bethune, born Thomas Grimes (1849-1908) but known more widely as "Blind Tom," was one of the most famous musical performers
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