The Voice mentor not only started singing at an early age, but he also started playing the guitar at age 12.
According to the National Association of Music Merchants, music benefits the brain, specifically in children who tend to have better vocabularies and reading skills than kids who don't play music.
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The singer's musical career started off at an early age. At the age of 12, Thicke taught himself how to play piano and was writing and producing songs for the likes of Brandy, Color Me Badd and Brian McKnight by 16. By the age of 21, he had written and produced songs on over 20 gold and platinum albums including Michael Jackson, Marc Anthony, Pink, Christina Aguilera and more.
The "Roar" crooner moved to Nashville to learn guitar and songwriting while she was pursuing a career in gospel music, she told MTV, adding, "I'd actually have to Superglue the tips of my fingers because they hurt so much from playing guitar all day, you know? And from that, I made the best record I could make as a gospel singer at 15."
The "Brave" songstress not only is a talented singer, but a noted musician as well. Bareilles, who has played acoustic guitar, electric guitar, the ukulele, and harmonicas during concerts, taught herself how to play piano while growing up in Eureka, Calif.
The British singer-songwriter learned how to play guitar at an early age, and started singing in a choir with his mother at the age of four.
The New Zealand native, who burst onto the U.S. music scene in 2013 with the huge success of her song "Royals," started writing songs on her guitar when she was 12 or 13, she told Pigeonsandplanes.com.
The talented starlet started playing guitar at age 12, after a computer repairman showed her how to play three chords. She wrote her first song. Once she had that down, the country crooner wrote her first song, "Lucky You."
The "Happy" singer-music producer, who plays the drums and piano, met his Neptunes partner Chad Hugo at a summer camp for musicians when Williams was 12. He was there for drums and Hugo attended for tenor saxophone.
During an interview in Japan, Homem-Cristo said he started playing guitar when he received a toy guitar at the age of seven, and continued when he received an electric guitar at age 14. He still writes songs using a guitar.
Bruno Mars famously impersonated Elvis in the Sarah Jessica Parker-starring film Honeymoon in Vegas. Around that time, at age four, Bruno was performing five nights a week with his family's band, the Love Notes. The talented musician also started playing guitar at an early age, and later learned how to play the piano, drums, bass and harmonica.