![]() Kid yodeler Mason Ramsey had already achieved sudden fame when he appeared on Ellen after a video of the 11-year-old yodeling inside an Illinois Walmart went viral. Since then Claire, now 6, and her dad have covered songs like Florida Georgia Line and Bebe Rexha’s “Meant To Be,” “You’ve Got a Friend in Me” from Toy Story and “Tomorrow” from Annie on the show. This father-daughter duo have performed multiple times on Ellen after a video of three-year-old Claire singing “A Part Of Your World” from The Little Mermaid went viral in 2016. In his 2014 appearance on Ellen, he performed “Hungarian Rhapsody” and “Smooth Criminal.”īack in 2013, this pint-sized crooner went viral with his adorable cover of Bruno Mars’ “Grenade.” Since then, he’s become a regular guest on the talk show, delivering passionate performances of songs like “Can’t Feel My Face” by The Weeknd, “Roar” by Katy Perry and “Thinking Out Loud” with a surprise appearance by Ed Sheeran. Like other musical prodigies on this list, this young cellist has also played at Carnegie Hall. ![]() ![]() Aside from performing Rachmaninoff and composing her own music, Harmony is also a world chess champion. By her second appearance, she had enrolled in the Juilliard School and performed at Carnegie Hall twice, all before turning 10. This precocious child piano prodigy first appeared on Ellen in 2014. Now 21, the singer-songwriter just released his second full-length LP, portraits, and is Billboard Pride’s current Artist of the Month.īack in 2011, cousins Sophia Grace, 8, and Rosie, 5, flew all the way from England to perform their showstopping cover of Nicki Minaj’s “Superbass.” The talk show host then surprised the two girls by trotting out the Queen Barbie herself to duet on the song. Perhaps one of Ellen’s greatest success stories, Greyson Chance was discovered by the talk show host as a shaggy-haired sixth-grader back in 2010 when his cover of “Paparazzi” by Lady Gaga went viral on YouTube. Greyson Chance recently released the album Palladium, which is receiving career-high praise from critics.9-Year-Old Boy Wows Ellen DeGeneres With 'Sweet Child O' Mine' Guitar Solo “So I turned down a national-TV gig on the eve of an album release, which is probably not a smart thing to do, but I had to do it for my integrity.” That vow became tested when her show reached out to offer him a prime spot on one of the final episodes of the show. “I was 100 percent faking it, and she’s 100 percent faking it with me, too.”Īfter that, Chance vowed to never be on her show again. I can just see so much PTSD because I’m there holding on for dear life going, ‘I need this TV gig,’“ Chance added. “When I look at the interviews and I look at my eyes, I can see so much anxiety. And behind the scenes, you are this insanely manipulative person.” “That’s so messed up, that you’re now showing the world as if we’re so tight. … I hadn’t spoken to her in years,” Chance says. She wouldn’t even ask, ‘How are you doing? How are you holding up?’ It was just like, ‘Here’s what we’re going to talk about. ![]() “Whenever I would come on the show, it was such a fake smile. Couldn’t talk to her,” he told the magazine. When his second record on DeGeneres’ label underperformed, Chance says that DeGeneres completely dropped him, and when he did appear on her show, she barely talked to him at all. “She was just degrading to people.”īut all of that changed once Chance’s career started to take a downward turn. “She would come in and look at a rack, yell at stylists, berate people in front of me and say, ‘This is what you’re wearing on the show,’” Chance remembers. He says that DeGeneres was controlling over his touring and recording schedules, what he watched, and even what he wore. “That was horrible.” He added that “if she had an opinion of any sort, the whole thing changed.” “My whole week, my whole month, my whole year could change one text message from her,” Chance said. However, things quickly turned sour.Ĭhance says that DeGeneres became a “hidden eye,” watching over every detail of his career and life. But according to a new interview with Rolling Stone, Chance felt that Ellen was offering to provide stability and guidance as a guardian and mentor to the young rising star and his mother, who had no idea how to act in the world of show business.Īfter flying Chance to LA to appear on her show, DeGeneres bought him a new piano and co-created a record label to launch his music career.
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