Micachu and the Shapes' Mica Levi doesn't look like a child prodigy.

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Frank was something of a child prodigy, always advanced for his years.

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Lauded as a child prodigy, Hamlisch was the youngest student ever accepted into Manhattan's prestigious Juilliard School of Music at the age of 7.

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His former child prodigy sings it just like a woman.

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Devi was already being called a "child prodigy" when, at the age of six, she demonstrated her skills in a public performance at an university in her native state of Karnataka.

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At the age of nine, Lang Lang gained a place at the Central Music Conservatory in Beijing and moved there with his father, who quit his job to concentrate on his child prodigy's career.

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But would any child reared by such a parent have become a chess prodigy?

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