Emily Bear

Emily Bear gives me that rare chill of witnessing a genuine prodigy. From Rockford, Illinois, she became the youngest performer ever at the Ravinia Festival at five and was astonishing audiences on national television by six. I'm usually wary of the word genius, but here I'll spend it. What impresses me even more than the early fireworks is the refusal to be defined by them: pianist, composer, jazz musician, singer, always expanding outward. The cruel cliché is that child prodigies fade.

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Name (English)

Emily Bear

Name (Japanese)

エミリー・ベア

Reading

えみりー・べあ

Born

August 30, 2001 (age 25)

Origin

Rockford, Illinois, United States

Occupation

pianist / composer / jazz musician / singer

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Awards & achievements

• 2018 Order of Lincoln

• Official sitehttps://www.emilybear.com/
• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/mlebear/
• Xhttps://x.com/emilybearmusic
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily%20Bear
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1619324

Tags

• Illinois
• pianist
• composer
• jazz musician

Last updated

September 25, 2026

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