Which blind singer performs at the court of Alcinous in The Odyssey?

Demodocus is the blind singer who performs at the court of Alcinous in The Odyssey.

He is the bard of the Phaeacian king Alcinous on Scheria. Homer describes the Muse as having taken Demodocus’s sight while granting him an exceptional gift for song. During Odysseus’s stay, Demodocus performs several important songs, including stories about the quarrel between Odysseus and Achilles, the affair of Ares and Aphrodite, and the Trojan Horse.

His performances help reveal Odysseus’s hidden identity. Odysseus weeps when Demodocus sings about Troy, and Alcinous notices his distress before asking the stranger to explain who he is. Demodocus is sometimes confused with Phemius, another singer in the poem, but Phemius performs for Penelope’s suitors in Ithaca. Orpheus belongs chiefly to the story of the Argonauts and the underworld, not Alcinous’s court.