Update: The story you are about to read was first written and published in January 2023 on GhanaWeb, but the latest update is that Jude has been offered a scholarship to read jazz and classical music at the Michigan State University. He shared this information on his Facebook page with the message, “Michigan State University gave me a scholarship to study jazz and classical music at Michigan State University College of Music under their great professors and will never ever forget this experience.”<\/b><\/p>\n Jude Kofie, a 12-year-old son of Ghanaian parents living in Aurora, Colorado, was with the family one day when his father started hearing an unusually good sound coming from their basement.<\/p>\n Of course, there was an old keyboard in there, but Isaiah Kofie, the father, was certain nobody at home knew how to play it.<\/p>\n But he got the shock of his life when, on walking in on his son, he saw him beautifully and masterfully displaying his musical prowess on the keyboard.<\/p>\n To be sure his son was the one doing this magic on the keyboard when he had never learnt how to play, he got him a bigger one to see what else he could do.<\/p>\n \u201cAnd boy, could he do,\u201d a CBS video report said.<\/p>\n This all happened about a year and a half ago, the report added.<\/p>\n And when CBS went to interview him, and then asked him what he thought about his sudden knowledge of music, Jude replied, \u201cIt\u2019s a miracle.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cYou think it\u2019s a miracle?\u201d CBS News asked him.<\/p>\n \u201cThat\u2019s what I prefer,\u201d he responded.<\/p>\n But his father was yet to get a far bigger shock of his life when one day, out of nowhere, and without any prompting, a huge piano was delivered to their house.<\/p>\n For Jude, it was \u2018music to his eyes\u2019 but his father, Isaiah, could only react in shock at the knowledge that it was \u201call for free.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWho does that?\u201d he said to the CBS reporter.<\/p>\n But they found their secret \u2018surpriser\u2019 soon enough, in the person of Bill Magnusson, a piano tutor.<\/p>\n Explaining why, Bill said he saw a local news story about Jude and then he heard him play.<\/p>\n Having also learned that Jude\u2019s parents has immigrated from Ghana and were raising four children, while still sending money back home to their family in Ghana, he felt a great compassion to help them.<\/p>\n \u201cWhat resources are left over to help this special little soul?\u201d he asked.<\/p>\n And so Bill did the unimaginable: he used his father\u2019s inheritance of $15,000 to purchase a piano for Jude.<\/p>\n \u201cWe\u2019re family now,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n Isaiah Kofie is still living in shock, but even more, he understands how much it is to be grateful too.<\/p>\n \u201cSomebody to just love your son like that by making sure that his future is secured, we are super thankful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n![\"Jude](\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/913\/91329143.295.jpg\" "\\"Jude")
Jude is seen here with one of the professors at the Michigan State University<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n![](\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/921\/92178957.jpg\")
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