#self-taught

Happy Belated 87th Birthday to Frank Sugar Chile Robinson! He was a Self-taught, child prodigy piano player.

Frank Isaac Robinson, known in his early musical career as Sugar Chile Robinson, is an American jazz pianist and singer. A Detroit native, Robinson became famous as a child prodigy in the mid-1940s.

Robinson was born in Detroit, Michigan, the youngest of seven children of Clarence A. and Elizabeth Robinson.[4][5] His father was a truck driver,[6] but eventually the family owned a neighborhood store.[1] At an early age, Frank showed unusual gifts, reciting the alphabet at 6 months old, reading at age three, and singing the blues and accompanying himself on the piano before he was two years old.[1][6] According to contemporary newsreels, he was self-taught and managed to use techniques including slapping the keys with elbows and fists.[7] Robinson won a talent show at the Paradise Theatre in Detroit at age three.

He was a small person, weighing only 40 lb (18 kg) at age 7.[6] Even as an adult, he was under 5 ft (1.5 m) tall.[1] Because of his youth and stature, he often played piano while standing.[6]

His mother died when he was about five years old.[6]

After retiring from his childhood musical career in 1959, Robinson earned a degree in history from Olivet College and one in psychology from the Detroit Institute of Technology.

I drew this earlier cause I got bored, I know I have a lot of art request but I don't know if I want to work on them yet I feel so lazy and tired. (maybe because I don't sleep that well)

I was trying to draw curly hair in a different style then I've been doing. I guess it's alright!