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Victoria Hovhannisyan

Victoria Hovhannisyan is a Russian opera singer from Armenian Origin. According to her Russian Wikipedia entry ( Оганнисян, Виктория Артёмовна ) , Victoria was born in Yervan, Armenia on November 12, 2000;  she sings in 11 languages, Russian, Italian, French, Japanese, Peruvian, Spanish, Latin, Armenian, English, Hindi and Hebrew. So we aren’t only considering a musical, opera singing prodigy here, but also a linguistic prodigy.(I don’t know Russian, but thanks to Google translate, now I can understand written Russian).

Victoria doesn’t have a musical family background, however, she surprised her family by her Opera singing abilities at the age of 9. Victoria Hovhannisyan has participated and won many musical competitions but she is best known to the English speaking world for her participation in The Voice Kids (Russian version) at the age of 11. Here is a video of her performance, she sang the Diva Dance from the 5th Element Movie:

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Malachi Samedy

In this post, I will introduce you to another child prodigy, Malachi Samedy, a very talented young drummer.

Who is Malachi Samedy?

Malachi Samedy is an American musical prodigy of Haitian Descent. He learned how to play drums at an incredibly young age. His parents had noticed his musical interest early on and bought him his first drum-set while he was still 18 months old.

Malachi Samedi
Malachi Samedi
From Malachi’s Twitter Account: https://twitter.com/malachisamedy

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