Four fingers, no legs. But everyone who meet her says like this. "She is a beautiful person", "She is really lovely". Do you know who she is? I am going to introduce you pianist Hi-ah Lee.
Hi-ah was born with two fingers on each hand. And she had a thin leg. But when she was three, she had to cut her legs. Piano, which was started to help her grow strength to hold pencil looked like it was not a good choice. Her teacher said she had no talents on playing piano. But Hi-ah's mom thought that she had to play piano. And this is the reason why she start to play piano. The simple song people could play within 1 hour was a song that she needed 10 hours to practice. After a year and another year... Like this, 10 years went. And her non-stoping practice made Hi-ah Lee the pianist.
Once, she said "I want to be a person who plants hope to other people like Helen Keller." She always helps people and does a lot of helping service. She gives people message that says 'I have only four fingers and I can do it. You can also do it. We can all do it.' with her music. Her messages make people who meet her don't think about her outside beauty. The only thing they can think about her after meeting, is her beauty inside her mind.
Coming Sunday this week (2/28), she is doing her concert in Jeju. I wish I meet Hi-ah on this this Sunday at her concert.
(Click Here if you want to listen to her playing piano.)
* 2016/2/28
I finally met her! ^-^
Christine, I agree with you and I think Hi-ah is a great person, doing a thing that sounds almost impossible.
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