Back at the start, the petite pop songstress began playing the piano when she was just five years old.

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Not having one of her own, she plays in the back of a music store so they go there and he teaches her a song he's just written, first playing the chords for her, then singing as she reads along with the lyrics that he's placed on the piano.

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