Child prodigies: Very young, extraordinarily gifted
Some kids are so talented they can program iPhones at the age of nine and jam with Ozzy Osbourne before they hit high school. Here are seven youngsters who make the rest of us look like serial under-achievers.
Japan’s guitar hero in the making
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When he was three, Yuto Miyazawa picked up a guitar for the first time, and it would seem he forgot to ever put it down. Now nine years old, little Yuto can be seen on videos hitting perfect notes on Free Bird and Purple Haze, and appearing on the Ellen DeGeneres show. That attracted the attention of Ozzy Osbourne, who invited him on stage to play Crazy Train.
Korea’s blind piano prodigy
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Talk about underdog success. Yoo Ye-eun was born blind and orphaned. Now five years old, she can play any song on the piano after listening to it once, despite no piano training.
Singapore’s little drummer boy
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Ethan Ong, age 10, has been stunning audiences with his “bada-boom-tish” since the age of two. He recently took first place in Shanghai’s National Youth Percussion Instrument Competition, and is one of the youngest drummers ever sponsored by Zildjian and Mapex.
Vietnamese-American girl speaks 11 languages
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Wendy Vo is 10 years old and speaks 11 languages: Vietnamese, English, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Japanese, Hindi, Arabic, Russian, Cantonese and Portuguese. She’s also a prolific composer and the youngest member of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.
Malaysian child knows six programming languages and codes iPhone app
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Nine-year-old Lim Ding Wen is a budding Bill Gates. Fluent in six programming languages, he created Doodle Kids, an iPhone app that lets users draw pictures on the screen with their fingers.
Hou Yifan is the youngest female Grandmaster ever.Chinese teen named chess Grandmaster
At 14, Hou Yifan became the youngest female in history to be named a Grandmaster, the highest level a chess player can attain. The girl with the two trademark hair clips has since swept the boards in Turkey, Germany and Budapest.
Avatar Tulsi: Serial over-achiever.Indian whiz achieves physics doctorate at 21
Avatar Tulsi earned his bachelor’s degree at 10, a master’s at 12, and now has a PhD in Physics from the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. The 21-year-old Tulsi is the youngest person ever to qualify for a doctorate in Asia. His thesis, “Generalisations of the Quantum Search Algorithm,” is one of the continent’s shortest at 33 pages.
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