Self-taught, child prodigy piano player, Sugar Chile Robinson.

Born on December 28, 1938, Sugar Chile Robinson as he was widely known proved to be a child prodigy emerging as a self-taught piano player at a year and half old.

An uncoloured person is complaining that there is more than one history, and that THIS twitter account, made for BLACK PEOPLE, needs to make an account for all races 🙄🙄🙄. Black people really cannot have safe spaces anywhere; not in real life or online.

He left it all to get and education. “He stopped recording in 1952, later explaining: I wanted to go to school ... I wanted some school background in me and I asked my Dad if I could stop, and I went to school because I honestly wanted my college diploma.”

Thank you for your tireless efforts to share these histories. This is such important work! 💖💖💖

Older than his years!

He’s playing and singing Caldonia by Louis Jordan ♥️♥️🔥🔥🎵🎵

In the “Warmth of Other Suns” .@Isabelwilkerson teaches us that Black children weren’t forced into labor like picking cotton. They could discover their gifts under other suns. We owe so much culturally to Black Northern migration! Daddy said picking cotton was very hard. VERY!

bro is pounding the keys with his fist!

That lil boy was better than me banging his fists on the keys than I am after 20+ years on the ivories. I’m in awe.