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This guitarist and steel player credited his fellow students for helping him learn.

Singer/songwriter Emily Elbert was 16 when she decided she wanted to go to Berklee. But where to find the money? All she could afford was burning a few original songs onto CD. But after getting some advice from the scholarship office, Elbert kicked her career into high gear and now she's at the place she considers her "dream school."

It's an ambitious plan: earn college and high school degrees simultaneously. Aishu Venkataraman, a violin prodigy who is wowing audiences worldwide with her South Indian classical music, is doing just that. Here at Berklee honing her jazz skills, Venkataraman, however, is decidedly nonchalant and humble about her fast-track path.

Janet Onyenucheya has come a long way from singing in front of her mirror with a toy microphone and tape machine.