of these the ones i'm most familiar with are ellen of ellenplaysbass and nandi bushell. i think ellen is about 9 here and nandi must be about 13 now. it's a how long's a piece of string question but it's possible that yoyoka may be the most precociously talented of the lot of them. she must be about 12 i think here and only the tip of the iceberg of supertalented japanese youngsters (nice wee fanboy doco of here here)
obvs, supportive family is a given in all of these but, in a country where language, drama and music education are becoming more and more the province of a private school education i worry about where creative talent is being nurtured. children, despite what the media/your gran might say, are no less talented, its just that their elders have, and continue to, fail them, my generation being particular offenders in this respect
