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Dec 29, 2020 06:59 AM EST
Matthew Whitaker is a blind jazz pianist, and since the age of 11, he has been performing across the globe. He has been deemed a prodigy with a talent amazing enough to have piqued scientists attention who are now studying his brain and trying to decipher his vision of music.
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Whitaker has performed in plenty of rooms. ( Room is showbiz-speak for a venue.) He has performed in a large one like the Apollo Theater in Harlem (1,506 seats) and a more modest one like the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall (268 seats).