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8-Year-Old’s Skillful Banjo Playing Earns 6.2M Views
My goodness he's talented.
Colby Maxwell
05.14.21

We all grew up with certain talents – some of us could build Lego’s really well while others were stars on the high school football team.

Odds are, those skills played some small part to play in what we did with our careers when we became adults! Maybe the kid who liked Legos is now an engineer or something, you never really know!

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It’s clear that for one kid, music is in his future!

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Jonny Mizzone is a kid with quite the talent – he’s an incredible banjo player!

While amazing banjo players aren’t that common to begin with, Jonny is extra special because he is only 8-years-old! He isn’t just some “kid who is somewhat average at the banjo,” either. In fact, he’s stunning.

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He released a video where he and his brothers play Earl Scruggs’s Flint Hill Special.

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The Flint Hill Special is a classic bluegrass song that banjo players have been playing since it came out in 1957. Jonny Mizzone and his brothers sure do it justice, especially for such young kids.

We can see Jonny in a plaid button-up and a slick part holding a banjo that is nearly as tall as he is!

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He totally looks the part, and there is enough hair-gel in that head to cement a house!

The decor includes a raw wood bed frame, a taxidermy fox, and a Lego Millenium Falcon.

Seems quite the mixture of generations! When Jonny starts playing, however, you might just forget his age.

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His fingers fly back and forth across the fretboard, too fast to see.

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The sounds come out way faster than we can even process, and he strums, picks, and plays the banjo with the skill of a man 5-times his age!

In the span of 1 minute and 19 seconds, we see Jonny on the banjo, Robbie on the fiddle, and Tommy on the guitar.

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With the oldest only being 13, it’s safe to say this is a musical family!

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We don’t have to! Jonny did a 10-year reunion of their viral performance (minus the plaid and hair-gel)! He was eight in the video, making him around 18-years-old at the time of the release. Like we can imagine, he looks grown-up, but how is his playing?

Still amazing!

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He still plays music with his brothers and regularly! They have a band called Sleepy Man, and the four of them travel, tour, and play bluegrass music for crowds across the nation. You know what Jonny claims started off his incredible journey into music? The success of his original video when it got 6-million views!

Hey guys, Jonny here! Exactly 10 years ago, my brothers and I released a video jamming to the classic bluegrass song Flint Hill Special. I was 8, Robbie was 12, and Tommy was 13. Little did we know how much that video would change the course of our lives over the next decade. We thought it would be a blast to release the same jam 10 years later. Hope you enjoy!

Check out his unbelievable talent in the video below!

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