'Once he listens to a song, he can play it,' his mother said.
By Cathy Free April 9 at 8:00 AM Sara D. Moore was sitting on her sofa reading a book when she suddenly heard the distinct notes of “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star” being plunked out on her keyboard across the living room.
On April 12 and 13, he will be one of the headliners for a fundraiser benefiting the Ronald McDonald House Charities of Dayton. Videos of the young prodigy on YouTube have gone viral, with his rendition of “Happy Together” by the Turtles — played on an antique upright purchased by a family friend who raised funds through a silent auction — recently racking up about 200,000 views.
"The eye doctor had no bedside manner whatsoever,” Moore recalled. “After he looked at Avett, he bluntly said, ‘Yup, he’s blind.’ ”Her son’s official diagnosis was optic nerve hypoplasia, an underdeveloped optic nerve. Moore cried so hard on the drive home that she had to pull over.Moore thought about her own difficult childhood. When she was 7 and her sister, Samantha, was 3, their mother drove them from their Greenwood, Ind.
“When I was in the second grade, before my mother decided she didn’t want us, I used to wear my pants inside out every other day, because I only had one pair,” Moore said. “We were very poor — we had nothing. For years, I carried the story with me that nobody wanted me, and I often pushed people away.”
“Once he listens to a song, he can play it,” she said. By her son’s second birthday, he could play “Happy Birthday” to himself, and, at age 3, he developed a fascination with Adele.
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