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| Chance Nye, 13, performs Thursday for the Just Teens program that will showcase his talents on Pinellas County School TV 14. |
By Andrew Ford
St Petersburg Times Correspondent (Florida, USA)
CLEARWATER — Chance Nye casually improvised on a grand piano.
The 13-year-old fluidly moved among popular melodies like Flight of the Bumblebee and ABC by the Jackson Five.
He has come a long way from Cambodia, where he was born, to play for a television segment called Fingers of Nye on the Just Teens program that will showcase his talents on Pinellas County School TV 14. Dates and times of the broadcast have not been set.
About 40 people showed up Thursday afternoon for the taping, which took place at La Grande Hall at Piano Distributors in Clearwater.
Chance was adopted when he was 4 months old in 1997 by Destiny Masters, 50.
"The minute I laid eyes on him, I knew it was meant to be," she said of her adopted son.
She is raising Chance with her husband, Steve Masters, whom she met in 2002. They live in Wesley Chapel.
At age 2, Chance started fooling around with an organ owned by Destiny Masters' godfather. By the time he was 5, he could play the Rugrats television theme song.
As he warmed up on stage Thursday, his mother said, "I get to listen to this all the time. It's great until dad wants to watch football."
Chance performed several pieces, including Rachmaninoff's Prelude in C sharp minor and a medley containing River Flows in You. As his friends urged him to play something they would recognize, he did the theme from the video game Modern Warfare 2.
Chance has some classical music on his iPod, but much of it is rap and hip-hop, featuring artists like Jay-Z and Lil Wayne. BedRock is one of Chance's favorite songs.
During the performance, the camera man moved around the pianist, shooting from many different angles. Afterward, Chance said it was "a little distracting, but not too much."
Teen Tyme Productions was responsible for putting on the event. The nonprofit organization works to create positive programming for teens and relies on viewer contributions.
Stacey Spencer, 42, founded the production company 13 years ago in Louisville, Ky. The company moved to Largo four years ago. She started Teen Tyme to spread a positive message.
"I believe that music, movement and the arts are all too often forgotten," she said.
7 comments:
Here is good khmer, appreciat your tallent, marry christmass to you.
Thank you,Destiny Masters for adopting
Chance Nye.
Chance Nye,you have a chance to show your talents on Pinellas County.
Keep practicing what you dreamed.
You can be a success!
You will be a success!
And you are a success!
I always heard the westerners adoppted the Khmer people a lot, instead I have never heard a bout the adopption of Khmer by China, Viet and most asian ountries, WHY?
THE MOST OS ASIAN COUNTRIES ONLY WANTED TO SUCK KHMERS' BLOOD THAT'S WHY.
CHEN AND YUON SUCKED THE MOST KHMERS' BLOOD.
IT'S TIME FOR THEM TO PAY BACK. JUST WAIT AND SEE.
If he was instead adopted by a Khmer couples would he have this opportunity? I don't think so. Thank you foreigner for helping shape another khmer.
Mr.Hun Sen forces everyone that work at TV station, Radio station and News paper to pro him only even he do very very wrong things for the Nation, Cambodia and Cambodian. The media in Cambodia must say nice thing about him even He killed and chopped the whole Cambodia give to Thai or Viet or kill many innocent cambodians.
Today Mr. Hun Sen imports over 5 millions Vietnamese into Cambodia legally with make up to 40% of Vietnamese in total Cambodia population. Soon Vietnamese will declare Cambodia belong to them.
Hun Sen is killing Khmer nation. Hun Sen murdered over 5000 Cambodians at 1997. He is a criminal against Humanity such as K5 more than ten thousands khmers life have been taken by Mr.Hun Xen and his family. Mr.Hun Sen makes real Cambodians suffer everyday.
You have power and kill a lot of Khmer but you are powerless fighting against your own ageing and Viet, Thai, everyday. Soon your time is over and you can't escape death at all. Your power, your wealth and the people that kiss your ass won't help you at that time.
Rattana Keo,
PS
All khmer nationalist we are going to die onec day. Please don't scare of Mr.Hun Xen blackmail and his evil. We shall die in good name rather living as his slaves. We shall die in the name of patriot rather in the name of traitor as Mr. Hun Xen and his family plus his followers. God will stand by us all.
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