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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Bluegrass musicians
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.

Why you should listen

These days your kid can get famous on YouTube for having water sprayed at him, for being duped about his Halloween candy, and for being high off laughing gas. But what if your 8-year-old gets famous on the Internet for being an absolute genius on the banjo? So goes the story of Jonny Mizzone, who first became a YouTube sensation in early 2011 for videos of him and his brothers tearing it up playing Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. It wasn't long before the press started calling.

Now Jonny, Robbie (fiddle) and Tommy (guitar), known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, are 11, 14 and 15 respectively. In 2011 alone they got calls from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the summer of 2011 they appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.

While the trio grew up in New Jersey -- which is known more for rock music than for bluegrass -- they fell in love with the unique sounds of J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Clarence White and Earl Scruggs after some creative YouTube searching. Now, having become sensations on the platform themselves, the trio has accumulated more than 17 million video views. Their first album, America’s Music, was released in September 2011 and charted top eight on the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. In October 2012 they released their second album, The Farthest Horizon, which cracked the top three. The group is already at work on their next album.

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Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuosity from ... New Jersey?

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys: Bluegrass virtuoznost iz... New Jerseya?

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Svi ispod 16 godina, braća Jonny, Robbie i Tommy Mizzone su iz New Jerseya, američke države koja ja poznatija po rocku Bruce Springsteena nego bluegrassu Earl Scruggsa. Ipak, braća su počela izvoditi bluegrass obrade, kao i vlastite kompozicije, i to u ranoj mladosti. Ovdje izvode tri čarobne pjesme u tri različita tonaliteta, prebacujući fokus s violine, preko bendža, do gitare.
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RobbieRobbie MizzoneMizzone: Thank you.
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Robbie Mizzone: Hvala vam.
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TommyTommy MizzoneMizzone: Thank you very much.
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Tommy Mizzone: Veliko hvala.
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It's suchtakav an honorčast for us.
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Jako smo uzbuđeni što smo ovdje.
To je velika čast za nas.
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Like he said, we're
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Kao što je on rekao, mi smo tri brata iz New Jerseya --
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znate, svjetske prijestolnice bluegrassa.
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We discoveredotkriven bluegrassBluegrass a fewnekoliko yearsgodina agoprije,
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Otkrili smo bluegrass
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and we fellpao in love with it.
We hopenada you guys will too.
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i zaljubili smo se.
Nadamo se da ćete i vi.
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mi skladali pod imenom 'Vrijeme prolazi',
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and it will probablyvjerojatno liveživjeti up to its nameime.
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i vjerojatno će živjeti u skladu s imenom.
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TMTM: Thank you very much.
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TM: Veliko hvala.
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RM: Uzeti ću samo sekundu
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Na gitari je moj 15-godišnji brat Tommy.
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On guitargitara is my 15-year-old-godinu star brotherbrat TommyTommy.
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On banjobendžo is 10-year-old-godinu star JonnyJonny.
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On je također naš brat.
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And I'm RobbieRobbie, and I'm 14,
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A ja sam Robbie, imam 14,
i sviram violinu.
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As you can see, we decidedodlučio
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and we choseizabrati to playigrati threetri songsPjesme
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in threetri differentdrugačiji keystipke.
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Yeah. I'm alsotakođer going to explainobjasniti,
a lot of people want to know
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Da. Također ću vam objasniti,
mnogo ljudi želi znati
kako smo si dali ime
'Sleepy Man Banjo Boy'.
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where we got the nameime
SleepySpava Man BanjoBendžo BoysDječaci from.
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So it startedpočeo when JonnyJonny was little,
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with his eyesoči closedzatvoreno,
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zatvorenih očiju,
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and we'dmi bismo say it lookedgledao
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i nama je izgledalo kao da spava.
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So you can probablyvjerojatno piecekomad
the restodmor togetherzajedno.
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Vjerojatno sami možete složiti
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shvatiti razlog za to.
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TMTM: We can't really figurelik
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Možda je tome tako jer teži milijun funti.
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TMTM: Thank you very much.
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TM: Veliko vam hvala.
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RMRM: Thank you.
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RM: Hvala vam.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys - Bluegrass musicians
The Sleepy Man Banjo Boys is made up of 11-year-old banjo sensation Jonny Mizzone and his brothers Robbie, 14, on fiddle, and Tommy, 15, on guitar.

Why you should listen

These days your kid can get famous on YouTube for having water sprayed at him, for being duped about his Halloween candy, and for being high off laughing gas. But what if your 8-year-old gets famous on the Internet for being an absolute genius on the banjo? So goes the story of Jonny Mizzone, who first became a YouTube sensation in early 2011 for videos of him and his brothers tearing it up playing Earl Scruggs's Flint Hill Special. It wasn't long before the press started calling.

Now Jonny, Robbie (fiddle) and Tommy (guitar), known as the Sleepy Man Banjo Boys, are 11, 14 and 15 respectively. In 2011 alone they got calls from The Ellen DeGeneres Show, Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and in the summer of 2011 they appeared as musical guests on The Late Show with David Letterman and NBC’s Today Show.

While the trio grew up in New Jersey -- which is known more for rock music than for bluegrass -- they fell in love with the unique sounds of J.D. Crowe, Ralph Stanley, Clarence White and Earl Scruggs after some creative YouTube searching. Now, having become sensations on the platform themselves, the trio has accumulated more than 17 million video views. Their first album, America’s Music, was released in September 2011 and charted top eight on the Billboard Bluegrass Album Chart. In October 2012 they released their second album, The Farthest Horizon, which cracked the top three. The group is already at work on their next album.

More profile about the speaker
Sleepy Man Banjo Boys | Speaker | TED.com