Derek Trucks at 11 years old:

How about Jackie Evancho. She's 12 and 10000000000 times the singer that Justin Bieber WISHES he could be.



Skip to 1:20 to hear the singing.

I need to post links to Miles Davis? Why? Isn't it enough to know that he was one of the geniuses of 20th century American music and he started playing professionally as a teen?

all of the stuff I was able to see of him was him playing jazz music...

no singing or even really moving on stage...

the only person that I can think of to compare to J/B is michael jackson or justin timberlake...

I agree that her voice is better than justins, there are people with better voices than him, there is no doubt about that, but he is multi talented, destin to be a popstar, if you have ever performed/recorded/written and produced you know that there is way more things to being the total package than having a great voice.

Yes, he was jazz musician. Why would that discount him as being talented at a young age?

most definitely wouldn't, I was still stuck in my kid prodigy mind state, good at tons of things, and I was just not finding videos of him being young or doing anything other than playing jazz music, he is talented, very talented. Just old in every thing I found, and honestly I know nothing about him.

here is my take

Justin Bieber is a excellent singer. Yes there are better singers than him but there is no young person as creative and musically talented as Bieber. He can play the guitar and many girls like that. He can also dance well. I think if Bieber keeps up good work and ethics, I think he could be very close to Michael Jackson.

Funny..

First it was cool to hate Bieber, and now it's cool to defend him.

Fame, infamy, it's the same ****, ppl are still talking about him.. so "haters' are 'Lovers' cause they love to hate him..

And if you wanna be real?

Even if you hate him or his music, the guy is making the money you wish you could make and banging the chicks you wish you could bang.. and he did it all with some lame dance moves and crappy pop tunes..

you gotta respect that in a way.

most of us could never achieve that even if we wanted to.

He was born in 1926, you're not going to find much in the way of video of him being young. But he's one of the most brilliant, prolific and influential musicians of the 20th century. He started playing professionally in his mid teens and had a far-reaching, diverse career that spanned half a century. I guess time will tell if the genius of Justin Bieber ever touches that.