His mother first taught him piano and he started performing in his teens.

Schiavelli's first film role occurred in Miloš Forman's 1971 production Taking Off, in which he played a counselor who taught parents of runaway teens to smoke marijuana in order to better understand their children's experiences.

By his early teens, he had already taught himself to play piano and had formed his own gospel vocal quartet, known as " The Jubilee Boys ", that sang at church functions.

Some teenage girls have said to be pressured into having sex with their boyfriends at a young age, and yet no one taught teens how to deal with this pressure or to say " no ".

While a pupil at Chigwell School, Essex, Williams taught himself Cornish and became a bard of the Cornish Gorseth while still in his teens, taking the bardic name Golvan (' Sparrow ').

In her early teens she taught herself very basic acoustic guitar ( Lesson 1: The strings face outwards ) and performed in local folk clubs.

When Kizzy is in her late teens, she is sold away to North Carolina when her master discovers that she had written a fake traveling pass for a young slave boy with whom she was in love ( she had been taught to read and write secretly by Missy Anne, niece to the plantation owner ).

The son of a composer and orchestra leader, Rypdal studied classical piano and trumpet as a child, and then taught himself to play guitar as he entered his teens.

Orphaned and homeless in his early teens, McLaughlin was taken in by horse trainer William Daly who taught him how to ride.

He taught himself to play the alto saxophone in his teens, inspired ( like many jazz musicians of his generation ) by Charlie Parker.

Henry was apprenticed to a wood engraver, Horace C. Grosvenor, while still in his early teens, and also was taught the basics of painting by an amateur landscape painter, George Kerr.

A bookish and intellectual child, he was also a fan of boxing and spent some time in his late teens bodybuilding, eventually taking up amateur boxing himself.

In his teens he made a name for himself as one of the best young jazz clarinetists and saxophonists in the city.

In his teens, Akamatsu applied himself to Film Study ( it is speculated that this is where he got the idea for Love Hina ).

In his teens he formed a second band, a quintette, including himself on the violin, his sister on the pianoforte or the bass and three friends of the family, for which German prepared the orchestrations.

John describes himself during his early teens saying, " I weighed 170, but I was still only five feet six inches tall.

He described himself in Learning to Sing as a proud Southern Baptist who had journeyed away from those roots in his late teens in search of a religion with more liberal social policies, and then returned to that church because of family and social ties although he remains at odds with the church on some issues.

From his teens, Reznikoff had been writing poetry, much of it influenced by the Imagists, and publishing it using a second-hand press, for which he set the type himself.

He would forcibly recruit young girls in their early teens and engaged in sexual activities in hopes of empowering himself, along with the consumption of potent elixirs.

Mezzasoma was born in Rome, the son of middle-class Perugians ; from his late teens he showed himself to be a passionate supporter of Benito Mussolini.

In his teens, McCarty set himself the goal of becoming a physician-scientist, and he pursued a successful strategy to prepare for admission to, and early success in, Johns Hopkins University Medical School.

Dann describes himself as having been " a troublesome child in a very small town " and in his teens associated with a local gang.

Even though Faudel was still in his early teens, he managed to establish himself as the new voice of Rai.

Played by actor Gregory Foreman, born in 1988-the actor himself was 20, whilst the character he was playing was in his late teens, having got his girlfriend pregnant, certainly not 13.

In his teens, Cesarani, himself a Jew, went to work on a kibbutz and became a member of the Israeli peace movement.

This was later explained by Paul Schrier himself that the two were being angry at the world and jealous of the five teens, hence the namecalling, shoving, and bullying that they originally did.

Foulkes himself played for the Whiston Boys Club in his teens, and also worked at the Lea Green Colliery around the turn of the 1950s.

In his early teens, he was first exposed to computing when he was given a Commodore 64 computer and he used this machine to teach himself about computing and computer networks.

A concept Rogen and Goldberg had created as teens, Apatow convinced Rogen to write the film as a vehicle for himself in 2000.

Surrounding himself with a new inner circle that includes fellow social snobs Madison Sinclair and Dick Casablancas, Logan begins a reign of terror that plays into the ever-present class warfare among the teens at Neptune High.

This attracts the attention of both Autobots and Decepticons, and after saving the teens from a Decepticon attack, Bumblebee himself is saved from them by the Autobots, convincing him of his worth to them.

As they all gather on a nearby hillside, Bohdai sparks the first thunderstorm the teens have ever seen and returns to space, but not without leaving a bit of himself behind in each of them.

Alexander Grothendieck was born in Berlin to anarchist parents: a Ukrainian father from an ultimately Hassidic family, Alexander " Sascha " Shapiro aka Tanaroff, and a mother from a German Protestant family, Johanna " Hanka " Grothendieck ; both of his parents had broken away from their early backgrounds in their teens.

The left-wing student movement of the late 1960s that swelled and partly radicalised itself after Ohnesorg's death influenced a large number of German politicians who were in their teens and twenties at the time.

His father, William, escaped from a plantation in his teens and eventually became the minister of Princeton's Witherspoon Street Presbyterian Church in 1881.

While still in his teens, he worked for The Brooklyn Daily Eagle as an errand boy, and eventually became a cartoonist.

He ran away from home in his teens, worked as a hat salesman and as a utility boy, and eventually adapted his middle name " Edwin " into his new stage name, " Ed Wynn ", to save his family the embarrassment of having a lowly comedian as a relative.

He eventually attended a ranch for troubled teens where he cared for a horse to build a sense of responsibility.

Porto, which he started representing professionally still in his teens, helping it to 26 titles, and eventually remaining with the club in an ambassadorial role.

He tried unsuccessfully to continue his acting career in his late teens, and eventually found work in radio.

She was still in her teens when her family moved to Mexico City and, fluent in the Spanish language, she eventually studied marine biology at a university in La Paz, Mexico.

Georgie experienced a major crisis when her son Trevor rebelled ; he was eventually sent away to a school for troubled teens.

They are eventually defeated by other teens ( led by Tommy Kirk ).

Some teens in the film profess that they will eventually become baptised as adults in the Amish community.

Having read his works in her teens, Gournay travelled to meet him and eventually became his " fille d ' alliance " ( roughly " adopted daughter ").

The two teens hide from Santa in a local high school, hoping that Santa's powers will end when Christmas ends, but are eventually forced to confront him in the gymnasium.

She started theatre lessons in her late teens, but continued writing poetry, eventually publishing her first collection in 1937 entitled Encounter in April.

He studied music in his teens and was eventually tutored by Furman Fordham, whose former students include Lena Horne.

" He obsessively studied astronomy in his teens, and eventually even gained some fame in the astronomy community by giving lectures on the subject at the age of fifteen.

The teens are eventually rescued by a band of older outlaws called the Eco Warriors.

Throughout the morning, the presenters would start off acting childish eventually becoming more aimed at teens.

On 3 February 1997 the programmes for older children ( mainly teens ) were split off into their own separate TV channel called Trouble, while TCC reverted to the original name of The Children's Channel, and continued screening programmes for younger children, running side by side with Trouble for nearly a year, before eventually closing down UK operations unexpectedly on 3 April 1998 at 17: 00.

The Walker Brothers were an American pop group of the 1960s and 1970s, comprising Scott Engel ( eventually known professionally as Scott Walker ), John Walker ( born John Maus, but using the name Walker since his teens ), and Gary Leeds ( eventually known as Gary Walker ).

Morel coined the term démence precoce ( Latin-dementia praecox ) in 1860, to describe what he thought was a mental disorder that initially struck males when they were teens or young adults, and eventually led to deterioration of mental functioning and disability.

Stephen eventually reaches his teens and Lita is often caught in between her ward and his parent ’ s differences.