Meet The Autisctic 11 Yr Old Ghanaian, Self Taught Pianoist, Jude Kofie Who Was Gifted $15,000 After Going Viral

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An 11-year-old boy with autism was given a helping hand from a complete stranger recently.

Eleven-year-old Ghanaian Jude Kofie is a living miracle who’s going viral around the world. His father Isaiah and Jude appeared on the Kelly Clarkson show roughly two months ago where his father detailed the upbringing of Jude.

“He was born premature, and he had a ‘hole in heart’ surgery I think two months after he was born,” Isaiah said. “We were thinking that hole was going to seal by itself through medication, but it didn’t, so they had to rush us to Presbyterian St. Luke hospital for the heart procedure.”

Jude eventually taught himself how to play the piano of which his father was unaware off. At the age of 10, the self-taught piano player played his first notes on a keyboard while his father, Isaiah, captured the moment on his cellphone.

“One day, I was sitting in the living room, and I heard him playing something on the keyboard in the basement,” Isaiah said. “So I just grabbed my phone and recorded him, whatever he was playing.”

Jude Kofie’s father discovered his son’s natural talent when he heard him playing on a keyboard, according to CBS ‘Sunday Morning. However, the instrument was old and his family didn’t have the means to buy their son a proper keyboard to practice on. Watch on the Kelly Clarkson Show below.

But It Gets Better With $15,000

Thankfully, a local piano tuner, Bill Magnusson, heard about the family’s plight and gave a grand piano worth $15,000 that he took from his father’s inheritance.

Magnusson was not only moved by Jude’s incredible talent, but by the Kofie family, who are not only raising their children but sending money home to their extended family in their native Ghana. As Magnusson pointed out: “What resources are left over to help this special little soul?”

In the story Magnusson also explained that Kofie’s talent was exceptional, sharing: “He’s Mozart level. It’s coming from somewhere beyond.”

Yet, the generous donor didn’t just gift the youngster an instrument to practice his talent, he’s also pledged to tune the piano once a month for the rest of his life, and is also paying for Jude to receive professional piano lessons.

As Faithtap so rightly shared, Bill’s gift was more than special, citing James 1:17 which says, “Every good gift and every perfect gift is from above, coming down from the Father of lights, with whom there is no variation or shadow due to change.”

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