Aria of Albania — The Girl Who Hears Music Everywhere

Aria of Albania — The Girl Who Hears Music Everywhere

Age: 8     Region: Europe

Aria hears music in places other people don't.

The click-click-click of her mother's shoes across the kitchen floor.

Rain tapping against the window.

A spoon circling the inside of a teacup.

Even the washing machine has a rhythm, although Aria insists it has absolutely terrible timing.

At eight years old, Aria of Albania has been picking out melodies on a keyboard for as long as anyone can remember.

Before she knew the names of the notes, she knew how they felt.

Some sounded like sunshine.

Some sounded like missing someone.

And some made her fingers move so quickly that she would finish a song, look down at her hands, and wonder how on earth they had done that.

Aria loves playing songs she already knows, but what she loves most is inventing ones nobody has heard before.

She gives all of them titles.

There is The Song for a Cat Who Refuses to Come Inside.

The Pancake Disaster.

And a very dramatic composition called Everyone Is Annoying Me Today, which she performs with considerably more enthusiasm than her family thinks necessary...

Her dream: To become a composer and write music that makes people feel stories even when no words are spoken.

Her wonder: “Maybe music is what feelings sound like.”

Discover Aria's complete story in Girls Wear Crowns: Empowering Dreams.

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