MUSIC has the power to bring out the best dance moves in us. Sometimes, we find ourselves imagining a song playing within our minds, and before we know it, our bodies are moving to the beat. But what about the deaf? They can also dance, obviously, but do they magically stop being deaf when music plays? Of course not, and that is one of the interesting things about them. I recently caught up with one of the well-known sign language interpreters in the country, Pastor Yohannes Getaneh, who is best known for signing on ZNBC TV. He shared with me a funny story about a wedding where a deaf couple and their deaf guests kept dancing to a song, unaware...

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