- May 6, 2024
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Noah Arazashvili playing at his CD release party (Courtesy photos).
Noah Arazashvili playing at his CD release party (Courtesy photos).
Noah Arazashvili and his parents, Rachel Arazashvili and Joseph Arazashvili.
Noah Arazashvili playing on his keyboard when he was 7.
Noah Arazashvili playing on his keyboard when he was 3.
Eric Baum noticed something special about Noah Arazashvili's during their very first piano lesson. Though his technique needed to be improved, the then 3-year-old's pitch was perfect.
"Anytime he heard a noise, he knew exactly what note it was," Baum said. "I looked it up and learned that it was a common thing among kids with autism."
"When we started the lessons, he wasn't verbal," his mother, Rachel Arazashvili said. "It was a struggle for him to express anything, but the music helped us connect. When he was upset, he would bang on the keyboard, and then we knew, okay he's upset."
Noah Arazashvili worked with Baum on a weekly basis improving his technique until just recently. Rachel Arazashvili and Baum couldn't understand why the now 7-year-old was acting out against the hobby he had grown to love until she looked on his iPad.
"I was just on there one day, and found that he had recorded 10 songs on this app," Rachel Arazashvili said. "While he was struggling with us, he was creating music."
Music that sounded, according to his mom, like the kind of beats people would want to sing over. So she and her husband put the music on a CD and helped Noah Arazashvili name his songs. His first album, "Rhythm Unspoken," features songs like "Me, Myself & iPad," "Gluten-Free R&B," and "BioMed Beats."
The young artist had a CD release party at Easter Seals in Daytona Beach Dec. 3, which is where a proceed of his sales are donated.
"We're trying to figure him out, and he's trying to teach us," his mom said. "Seeing him at that party, playing for people, he was in his element. He was Noah."
To listen to Noah Arazashvili's music and buy his CD, visit noahaz.com.
