Sometimes I wonder what I was doing when I was 4-years-old. I mean I had just started school, probably discovered some new shows I enjoyed watching during snack time and was just learning how to tie my laces. I was also working on being more confident as a child because I had a hard time having conversations with my teacher and other students in the classroom.
Every child has his/her own timeline. There are some children who are talkative and questioning everything and just confident in everything that they do — it comes to them naturally from a young age. So, unlike me, there were a lot of other 4-year-olds who loved attention, were entirely composed in front of big crowds, and had incredible talent.
The little boy in the video below is one of those kids!
Valor Yost is a kid with a great voice and the guts to take center stage to perform a Johnny Cash classic that everyone loves; he also happens to be the youngest Johnny Cash impersonator, and he seems to have a good handle of the music! You don’t see someone so small performing a Johnny song. And, even if you had someone tell you this, you wouldn’t expect anything of professional caliber from the child. Right? Nope, that’s adding too much pressure on the poor little thing!
But, after watching this footage, your mindset may change and you may feel it appropriate to expect something like this from other kids, too. The video opens up with the little boy standing in front a mic, with guitar in hand. He just finished telling the host of the night that he’s going be serenading the audience with Johnny’s famous song, “Ring of Fire.”
As he starts his performance, you can almost immediately hear the crowd’s amused reaction. By the sounds of it, Valor knows how to put on a performance. He stands in front of his audience with great confidence and gives them a couple of moments to chuckle in between, too! I always say that the person who can take the stage and engage the audience, regardless of what his/her routine is, is the true performer! Valor proved it with this one, today.
Which one of Johnny Cash’s songs is your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
In the meantime, watch Valor set the stage on fire with his performance, below.
