Eli was just a few years old when his parents were told he would be in a wheelchair by the age of nine and that his life expectancy would be early 20s.
He was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy, a condition that gradually causes the muscles to weaken, leading to an increasing level of disability.
An assistive technology has now given the 16-year-old the potential to keep playing music longer.
And he has been given the chance to perform at America’s music, tech and film festival.
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Give him unlimited weed and he'll be cool
Very talented
Sounds like less the tech doing anything at all and more the power of rock and roll .
That’s why music is my higher power
Good for him living his dream life; which is likely to be cut short because of his condition. Waste no time young man.
Bravery and wisdom ….an absolutely amazing human being…
Clearly from a privileged background. Funny how technology is always promoted via disabled people so that people don't criticise it. Pathetic
I’d imagine him becoming Stephen Hawking in field of Music
Wow, somebody British appearing on BBC News. A smart and talented lad.
A 😢😢😢😮😮😮 bad and nasty😢😢😢😮😮😮 retired director from General Dynamics, previously worked in San Diego, probably more than 85 yrs old now, is abusing US Gov's monitoring satellite to harass normal US civilians, inside USA & all over the world for his own entertainment & amusement.
These remote sensors of the monitoring satellites are capable of interpreting the words you're thinking in your mind, may be, by air vibration or by scanning the brainwaves from your brain.
The Israeli IDF are using similar satellite technologies to spy on the Hamas leadership hiding deep inside the Gaza Tunnels. IDF once released footage of these videos in much degraded resolution.
This could also have been the way how our intelligence services obtained classified information on Xi Jinping's missile deployment within China.
This retired General Dynamics director could have been the mastermind behind the plane crash killing the Secretary of Commerce Ronald Brown of the Clinton Administration, in the plane crash in 1996 in Croatia.
The United States as we learned and studied in American high school does not exist anymore; it has been destroyed.
United States have been dead. American citizens don't have human rights.
This retired Director of General Dynamics is indeed a national disgrace of the United States.
If this America disgrace wants to harrass any American civilian, he just puts this American into our Gov. blacklist for monitoring, and he can harass this American civilian.
United States must stop this disgrace retired director from General Dynamics.
Brave amazing boy, God help heal him and other ppl in a similar situation🙏🏻
Where's the enterview of Guyana's President, Mohamed Irfaan Ali, debunking the BBC reporter's narratives?
What a stunning musician and human and so inspiring for us all. And what a wonderful mother to support Eli. Best of luck and every success in life and your musical career 👏👏👏🤘🎸
bbc, give cure instead of listening music
I really thought they were going to talk about gene editing with CRISPR Cas-9 as a cure Duchenne's Muscular Dystrophy. They haven't got it perfected, but they will before this kid hits 21.
❤👍…great attitude
Such a bummer, glad he’s got a good attitude.
I didn't know Claire Balding was so musical
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It’s amazing what a child born into the top 1% can achieve.
Fat kids need music too
Ji
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素晴らしい😀
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