'I mean, I'm down to babysit,' she added, quipping, 'I'm a great babysitter. Avett Ray Maness, of Dayton, Ohio, was born blind. While Perry, who is engaged to Orlando Bloom, doesn't plan on giving out her digits to the first-grader, she offered another proposal instead. A 6-year-old Ohio boy who is blind taught himself to play the piano, quickly becoming a musical prodigy and an Internet sensation. :) I will say again that when Ive done strong hits of acid and played the piano, the most astonishing thing is how ludicrously easy it was, and how my mind opened wide up to realize that 88 tones is nothing to manage. A 6-year-old Ohio boy who is blind taught himself to play the piano, quickly. 'He's getting the digits! He's networking,' Bryan quipped, with Richie adding, 'If he's starting off at 7, he'll be a killer by 19.' Jeez, now shes just being a dick about it. Avett Maness, a 6-year-old musical prodigy, loves to play hits from artists like Queen, Adele, The Beatles and more. The moment he could pull himself to reach the piano, he. 'He asked me for my number backstage,' Perry revealed as Bryan and Richie laughed. Avett Ray Maness is a 6-year-old piano prodigy from Dayton, Ohio, who not only taught himself to play piano by ear but he’s also blind. In fact, when the 34-year-old met the young star backstage after the show, she told Entertainment Tonight that the 7-year-old made a move on her.

During last night's celebration, however, the musician-in-the-making had his heart set on impressing one person that night - and that was Perry. Maness, a blind, self-taught piano sensation, went viral and became an internet celebrity a few months back for wowing local crowds with songs like Queen's iconic anthem and Bach's Minuet in G.

Blind since birth, Whitaker was introduced to the piano at the age of three, when his grandfather gave him a small Yamaha keyboard. An Exciting Debut, An Eagerly Awaited Return begins at 2 p.m. On Sunday's live episode (April 28), the 'Swish Swish' musician and her fellow judges, Lionel Richie, and Luke Bryan, were treated to a special performance of 'Bohemian Rhapsody' as part of the show's Queen tribute - and sitting at the piano for the set was none other than 7-year-old Avett Maness. Whitaker returns to the Festivalnow celebrating its 10th yearon Saturday, August 31st. From birth Thomas Wiggins was blind and in 1850, when he was three, he was sold with his enslaved parents to a Georgia lawyer named. Katy Perry met her youngest admirer on the latest episode of American Idol. Blind Tom, as he was called, was an African American musical piano prodigy born on on a plantation owed by Wiley Edward Jones in Harris County, Georgia, to Charity and Domingo Mingo Wiggins. The blind teen pianist prodigy so exceptional that his brain is being studied by neuroscientists Matthew Whitaker was born with retinopathy of prematurity that left him blind Whitaker began playing.

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