Born and raised in Detroit’s inner-city, BLKBOK (born Charles Wilson III), grew up in a music-filled house and by the time he ...
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Tonya Mosley. Classical pianist Andre Watts died last week at the age of 77. Watts is known as one of the first Black superstars in classical music. He became famous at 16 after ...
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Pianist BLKBOK uses his talents to help draw in all types of listeners and artists to classical music. TODAY’s Al Roker met up with the neo-classical piano prodigy to learn how he was introduced to ...
Growing up, Roberta Flack was known as a musical prodigy who “could play anything” on the piano. She grew up in the church, where her mother was an organist, and started studying classical piano ...
A Santa Monica transplant by way of China is doing what she was destined nearly from birth to do — play piano and play it well. Sabrina Xiao He is a piano-playing prodigy, having held over 300 solo ...
MOSLEY: Watts brought electricity and emotion to his performances, sometimes humming, stomping his feet and bobbing his head as he played. He was born in Nuremberg, Germany, and later raised in ...