Before I turned ten years old, here's a list of things I liked doing:

  • Throwing branches at my brother.
  • Seeing if ants really did burn under a magnifying glass.
  • Catching tadpoles and keeping them in a jar until they were frogs.
  • Drawing dinosaurs.

Perhaps I didn't quite make full use of my spongy brain and nimble mini-fingers. Behold:

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10. To get things going, this kid is older than many of our other nominees. Aaaand not technically a musician. But he makes the cut simply by virtue of this being one of the funniest things ever. Skip to about 1.10 for the sweet spot.

"Scarred?"




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9. This child barely has fingers strong enough to (mock) hold a guitar, let alone squeeze out the lyrics to 'Hey Jude'. Which—incidentally—he's singing a cappella; without background music. My Nan couldn't do that.



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8. Can you imagine this monster at home? Crying in the car over his spilled Apple Juice? Needing a band aid? Hurling burning crucifixes over the neighbours fence? What a rascal. "Jimmy, you left the decaying goats head out on the lawn pentagram again. No Roll Ups for you."



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7. There are younger kids than the relatively ancient age of seven years old playing drums on YouTube, but this veteran knows his way around the kit like most pre-schoolers know their way around a slice of fairy bread. Thorough.
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6. This girl is six. Sounds alright I guess.



BONUS: This three year old isn't that great but I wanted to include it to make mention of the fact that Chris Lilley has DEFINITELY watched this video in the creative development of Angry Boys.



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5. This one's just weird. At a 2005 stadium concert, master of bland Andre Rieu invited three year old Akim Camara up on stage to perform alongside. Which also involves making him do this weird trick beforehand, and then having the little guy look wildly about the stadium as he screeches through an interminably long performance, the crowd and Andrew smiling and grimacing in turn.



Alright he did get better a couple of years later in New York. At a wisened five years old, he'd probably drank the Lower East Side dry by the time it came to this performance.



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