'Something about that kid, man. I saw him and said, 'This kid's got a spark.' It was greatness, it was an aura. He has it,' Glenn Palmedo-Smith says of Brian Horberg
A stranger completely changed the life of one little boy who was blind and partially deaf after their serendipitous encounter in the grocery store led the man to give the child an electronic keyboard — beginning what has become an unbelievable career as a professional pianist.
Today, Horberg owns his own music business and performs at nursing homes, senior centers, hospitals, and weddings around Connecticut — all while charming everyone he comes in contact with, his Life Skills Instructor Mary Casagrande tells PEOPLE. She tells PEOPLE that Horberg’s family still reminisces on his fateful meeting with Palmedo-Smith, with whom they haven’t spoken since he gifted the keyboard and a signed copy of the biography he was working on,“I’ve never understood it,” she says, adding that the family tried to contact him in recent years but had been unsuccessful after he moved from the residence he provided in a letter.
“He was so precocious and reaching out and not shy,” Palmedo-Smith recalls. “I just thought, ‘This kid’s special.'” “I didn’t want to present it myself… I wanted him to have a sense of ‘I’m lucky, somebody is on my side, somebody is watching from above,'” Palmedo-Smith explains, noting that the department ultimately said no.With his proposal turned down, Palmedo-Smith eventually delivered the keyboard himself, meeting with Horberg’s family at his Connecticut home to watch the excited boy open his present and put it together.
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