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Mariah Carey and the one-handed pianist
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Two Scoops Ahead has this very nice story about Mariah to share:
"I was at a photography convention this past Sunday in San Antonio, TX, and this guy, with only one full-working hand, came in and started playing piano in the hotel lobby. It was completely amazing! His left hand was basically a stump with no fingers.
After a couple of songs he began to tell us about himself (my group of photographer friends and I were all photographing him while he played). One of the stories he told was of a beautiful woman who came up to him while he was playing (he said she was surrounded by 4 big men).
After he finished, he turned to her and she said that she was about to cry. She told him of how amazing she thought it was that he could be disabled like that and play so well. He then asked her if she was a musician (he didn't know who she was), and then when the guys around her started to laugh, she said, 'Quiet!' and explained that she was a musician. He asked her what her instrument was, and she, of course, said her voice. Then, she introduced herself as Mariah Carey and asked him to play another song. He said that when he finished she was crying and said that she would come see him again the next day."
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Thanks to Gilles ' research, we now know that the man who played the piano for Mariah is named Frank Munoz. Here are excerpts from an article about him at MySA :
If he had been born with two perfectly normal hands, Frank Muņoz believes he would not have become the piano player he is today. His left hand did not form properly. The arm is shorter than his right and his hand looks like a smooth triangle - no fingers but with two appendages on each corner.
Muņoz said his parents would not have considered buying him a piano and enrolling him in lessons if he had not been embarrassed by his left arm. The point of the piano was to make him less self-conscious. He took lessons from the nuns that taught at his Catholic school - La Salle - which since has been closed. Muņoz's first lesson was 50 years ago.
Now, at 56, Muņoz has returned to settle in San Antonio after traveling around the country as a teacher and to Spain as a student. He has played piano for the king of Spain and singer Mariah Carey, although he did not know who she was at the time.
Two years ago, he played for Spain's King Juan Carlos I and Queen Sofia. Muņoz was playing the piano in the cavernous lobby of the Westin Palace Hotel in downtown Madrid when word spread of the royal couple's arrival. The management asked if he could entertain them.
He played for Carey when she was staying at the same hotel. She had a conversation with him about his playing technique, he said.
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This was way back in 2007. This needs to be read by people because it's sad that the diva rumors overshadows Mariah's real personality. 
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