Author : Jennifer Stone
This is the girl who has taken the internet by storm with her brilliant violin skills a few years back. In the streets of Santa Monica, a girl of 11 years old is playing violin and being cheered by the entire crowd. This charming scene was the first thing people fell in love with and no sooner her violin skills started to get viral repeatedly. Not just a child prodigy soon she became a social media influencer, YouTube content creator, vlogger, performer, and entrepreneur in this industry.
- Who is Karolina Protsenko?
She is a Ukrainian origin violin player, and she has been learning violin since she was really young. Since her lessons started but her zest for playing violin came to its glory in 2017, and after that she was unstoppable. Soon after that people started uploading her videos of playing the violin. And one after the other her videos were going viral, this was the time the world came to know about this child prodigy of the violin. Being young her passion for playing the violin can be seen profoundly in those videos.
- Ethnicity and family:
The child prodigy was born in Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine on the 3rd of October, 2008. By the time she was 6 years old, in 2015 she and her family moved to the United States. She is the eldest child of her father Nikolay Protsenko and mother Ella Protsenko. She belongs to a musical family as both of her parents, Nikolay and Ella, play guitar and piano. Apart from her, she has two younger brothers.
- Location, School:
After she moved from Kyiv at an age of 6 she along with her family started to live in Simi Valley, California. And presently she is living there with her musician parents. As per the vlogs, she has uploaded she is studying in one of the local private schools in California. In 2015 she also started taking her first violin lessons from her music teacher Mr. Sam Fischer.
- Busking Journey:
Of all of the places, her favorite location to perform was the 3rd Street Promenade of Santa Monica. She performed there for the open crowd for quite some time. It was a really rare thing to see that a girl that young have already mastered the art of playing violin. Soon she was named the busking sensation by Daniele Vitale from Italy after the entire of Europe was mesmerized to see her performances.
- The Ellen Show:
Later on, she appeared in The Ellen Show in 2019. In that show she expressed her wish to have a puppy and she has been saving the money from the busking bucket tip jar to get one soon. By the end of her performance in the show, Ellen dropped quite a large amount o money. She played the violin cover of the Post Malone song, ‘Sunflower’.
- YouTube:
About 4 years ago, she started her YouTube Journey by consuming the titanic number ‘My Heart Will Go On’. Soon, she joined YouTube officially and she started making videos of her playing the violin and releasing them. In no time she has gathered more than a few million people from around the world, who liked her videos. Being trained classically she didn’t take a lot of time to learn the pop numbers on her violin. She so far has three YouTube channels one is for her vlogging videos, another is for her violin covers song, and another is for her voice cover numbers. Her best violin cover songs include songs like ‘Despacito’, ‘Love Me Like You Do’, ‘Memories’, ‘Shallow’, ‘Believer’, ‘Diamonds’, ‘Shape Of You’, ‘Never Enough’, ‘Fight Song’, ‘Someone You Loved’, ‘Can’t help Falling in Love’, and many other extremely popular pop numbers.
- Collaborations:
She has collaborated with various instrumental artists; a lot of professionals have worked with her and appreciated her passion and skills. She has released a collaborative CD with Italian Saxophonist, Daniele Vitale.
- Followers:
Right after she started her online journey many people were invested in her craft and the number of her followers started increasing with each passing day. Her YouTube channels have over 6.96 million subscribers. Her Instagram handle has 940K followers.
- Net Worth:
Being a 15-year-old girl, her net worth is already $1.5 million. Both of her parents are very well-known musicians. Her works are being conveyed to the world profoundly and people are loving these charming videos of her.
She is young and her talent is great and will continue to grow with time. The heights of success she has reached by her 14th Birthday have humbled her and also showcased the possibilities she has for her future. She has a lifetime ahead of her and it seems that soon her face is going to be influencing more people are continue to win the hearts of people from around the world.
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