Jim Brickman wouldn't play by the rules. Literally. He was 8, taking private lessons from a piano teacher down the street from his parents' Cleveland suburb home, but little Jimmy Brickman wouldn't conform to the rudimentary regulations of piano playing, even after his piano teacher told his mother he "didn't have the knack for this."
By the age of 12, Brickman found his mentor in the creative tutelage of a Cleveland Institute of Music graduate. Jim Brickman would become the most commercially successful instrumental pop pianist of the last three decades. Four of his albums have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America - 1995's By Heart, 1997's Picture This and The Gift, and 1999's Destiny - for sales of more than 500,000 copies. Overall, he's sold more than 7 million albums.
Jim Brickman wouldn't play by the rules. Literally. He was 8, taking private lessons from a piano teacher down the street from his parents' Cleveland suburb home, but little Jimmy Brickman wouldn't conform to the rudimentary regulations of piano playing, even after his piano teacher told his mother he "didn't have the knack for this."
By the age of 12, Brickman found his mentor in the creative tutelage of a Cleveland Institute of Music graduate. Jim Brickman would become the most commercially successful instrumental pop pianist of the last three decades. Four of his albums have been certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America - 1995's By Heart, 1997's Picture This and The Gift, and 1999's Destiny - for sales of more than 500,000 copies. Overall, he's sold more than 7 million albums.
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