She is the world’s best (12 year old) guitarist. Her inspirations are Hendrix, Slash, Zakk, Rhoads and idol Van Halen. She’s been on Howard Stern. She’s been playing out in bars since the age of 10.
Here is a video of her playing “backup” (she insists to the emcee that she doesn’t sing – she only “does backup”) – but the star here is Danielle. Watch this pre-teen girl go. It’s astonishing. She is TWELVE YEARS OLD. (This video is a couple of years old, so she’s older now.) But check it out. It’s awesome. She’s awesome.
This is great! She’s got some serious chops!
There’s this other kid on YouTube – Anton Oparin – who’s playing Paul Gilbert’s Scarified at age 11 – that just floored me. Here it is.
The kid who really floors me is Lucciano Pizzichini a 7-year-old (at the time of the video) guitar prodigy. Check this out!
We were talking about access and availability earlier – I love YouTube for this kind of stuff. I mean, this kids are still having to go out and pay dues at clubs and such, but the Internet gives them access to such a potentially broader audience. Awesome.
Thanks for posting this. I hadn’t seen Danielle and now I have someone else to keep an eye on.