I don't know if I'd call myself a prodigy, but I was a big forensics competitor in high school, and then during college I spent some time working at speech and debate camps as a coach.
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For every child prodigy that you know about, at least 50 potential ones have burned out before you even heard about them.
Well, I love what you would call boys' music, you know, the prodigy, banging techno, music that girls generally don't like.
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
I feel like it has gone very fast for me, but I feel like it wasn't instantaneous, at all. I was getting a lot of rejections. I just got very lucky and it happened quickly for me. I don't feel like I'm a prodigy or something.
My older brother was a musical prodigy, and he got a scholarship to the Bronx House Music School. We moved to the Bronx when I was 4 to be close to his music school. Then I got a music scholarship myself, at the age of 6, but that was for a school down in Greenwich Village. I had to take the elevated train and then the subway to get there.
I have always been a singer, a writer, and a musician, not as a prodigy or as in a trade handed to me by my parents, but because of an inner voice or maybe a command from beyond reality as it is usually defined.
There is no prodigy in our profession. If you see all the great singer of the past, none of them are.
Child prodigy is a curse because you've got all those terrible possibilities.