Posted on 04/07/2017 2:20:18 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Li-sa-X was hailed by MTV in 2014 as one of 10 girls who were the "future of heavy metal" and now at the ripe old age of 12, she has released her debut album.
The guitarist rocked the Internet in 2016 in an online commercial for a bank. The pajama-clad pony-tailed girl banged out the song "Schubert's Lullaby" on her electric guitar using a bank card as a plectrum.
Prior to that, she posted a video on YouTube of her playing a song when she was 8. It was viewed more than 4.8 million times with posters describing her as a supervirtuoso and "guitar ninja."
I was just having a blast with my favorite thing and was stunned to see something incredible happen, said Li-sa-X, who lives in Kanagawa Prefecture.
She explained that she named the first album "Serendipity," which was released March 8, because of her unexpected rise to stardom.
The child prodigy became fascinated with the guitar when she was about 3 after seeing her father play the instrument, and started toying around with a hand-me-down guitar.
The song she played and posted on YouTube was written by guitarist Paul Gilbert of U.S. rock band Racer X. He was so impressed with the Japanese girls rendition of his number that he invited her to study at his online guitar school, while MTV counted the youngster as one of 10 girls who were definitely the future of heavy metal.
She decided to go by the stage name of Li-sa-X in a tribute to her mentors band.
She says in "real life" she is an ordinary girl who does things at my own pace and loves English, hip hop and baking sweets.
I want to make many more songs that can entertain everyone and go on a world tour someday.
She’s a little “Little Wing”.
She’s very impressive and I’d bet she’s a fan of my best friend Neil Zaza, who is very popular in Asia.
http://www.neilzaza.com
Sounds kind of Jeff Beck-ish. I like it.
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Reminds me I saw this 12 year old from Norway I was very impressed with. He has more of a blues style, Stevie Ray Vaughn influence, but extremely worth hearing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xoyqmTHiMNM
Its counterintuitive to think that someone who is that good that young wont dominate in time but I’ve been reading about these wundurkinder for decades but rarely hear anything about them when they get older even if they are out there recording and touring.
PLAYING Freeburg is no big deal. WRITING it, THAT’S the thing!
So incredibly true. I bought Bruce Springsteens autobiography “Born to run” and he said he realized he wasn’t that great a singer nor that great a guitar player so he realized that he should focus 100% of his attention to songwriting which is just what he did and THAT is what got him his career. Fantastic book even though he is a lib........
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01BNSK4V2/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?_encoding=UTF8&btkr=1
That girl is nothing short of astounding. She has a great future in J-rock, esp. when she gets old enough to be able to do vocals befitting that style of music.
Well, I’m over 50 and just shared these videos with my 82-year-old mother and my 65-year-old friend who loves metal, and we’re all blown away.
It’s not a matter of what music you grow up with, it’s about having respect for anyone of ANY age who is exceptionally talented.
And by the way, your list is nothing without Jerry Lee Lewis. ;)
Another musician prodigy story that was common during the Rock era was the Session Guy cutting an album of his own songs with many of the successful acts that he played for over the years helping him out. Wow! you think, that’ll HAVE to rock! Nope. A guy who can take some 3 chord ditty find enough vibe and feel and perhaps a riff to gild it, and do this over and over again for a decade CANNOT WRITE A SONG OF HIS OWN THAT ANYONE CARES ABOUT. Counter intuitive...
Yeah well, she still has some dues to pay.
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