- We're back, everybody,
and we've got Kit Hoover with us.
Give it up for her y'all.
(audience applauding)
So we got her some water.
She's not coughing anymore.
(Kit laughs)
As a mama, I can tell you kids are full of surprises.
Just a year ago my next guest
unexpectedly heard music coming from his basement.
Upon some investigation
it turns out it was his then 10 year old son, Jude
messing around on his old keyboard.
Jude had never played any sort of piano before.
Dad was so blown away he immediately started recording.
So one year later, little Jude
is now the lead keyboardist at his church,
plays parties, has 100s of videos up on YouTube,
and he is just getting started y'all.
We have Jude and his daddy, Isaiah-
(audience applauding)
- Hello
- Hello, meet Kit, everybody-
- I met you, good sir. - Hello.
- I love all that.
(Jude laughs)
That's like y'all's secret handshake from-
- We have it.
(Jude laughs) - I like it.
- So, Isaiah, what was going on in your mind
when all of a sudden you just heard music playing
and you saw him playing piano?
- Yeah, I was astonished because I grew up in Ghana
playing music and hoped to make it a career.
But when I got here I couldn't because I had to do two jobs
to support family here and back in Ghana.
So that's what happened.
But I kept some instruments in the basement.
And Jude has played the drums before,
but never anything keyboard.
So one day he started playing something
as he saw in the video
and I went down there to record him.
And I catch him watching videos of how to operate
the professional keyboards
and how it functions. - Function, yes.
- So I bought one for him and that's when he took off.
He does everything by ear
and he practices three hours a day.
- And he just learns off of YouTube videos.
- Yes, with YouTube videos.
- Yep. (audience laughing)
- You are incredible.
I could watch a YouTube video
and still not know how to do it.
I'm just saying.
(Jude laughs)
I wanna show everybody a little of you in action,
all right? - Of course.
- Okay, here we go.
I love you Jude.
Okay, here's Jude.
(slow piano music)
- Oh my gosh! (audience applauding)
- Yep.
(all laughing)
- I love you Jude.
So what do you love about playing music?
- Well, I feel the joy and I feel the music.
So I love it so much.
- I love that you feel joy.
That's what I feel whenever I sing.
I love that.
So, okay, so Isaiah, Jude
he had a rough start in the beginning, right?
- Yes, he was born premature
and he had heart surgery because of low oxygen levels.
And he had G-tube.
It was first in his nose.
He kept pulling it out
so they had to put it in his stomach.
So he was feeding through his stomach
until he was eight years old.
- Yes. - Wow!
- Yes, and he was later diagnosed with autism.
- Yeah.
- So this has been ...
That's why we are so thankful to God
for blessing him with this special talent.
- Yeah. - Yeah,
because it's been a tough road.
- Yeah, and what a beautiful outlet, right?
To just express yourself and have your own time
sitting there with the music.
It's a special thing.
So Isaiah, and now Jude plays at the hospital, right?
Where he once was treated, right?
- Yes, we know how tough
and difficult it is to be in that situation in the hospital
'cause we were literally living there in the hospital.
- Yes.
- So we decided to go
and play to them as a form of giving back.
So we've been to the Children's hospital, Aurora, Colorado.
And that's his dream, to be able to play
to support families and kids just like him.
- I know, that's gotta feel pretty cool, right?
'Cause you were once there.
- Yep. - And now you get to do,
and did you look how cute you look in that suit
in that picture?
(Jude laughs)
- Yeah. - Yes.
- That little velvet number.
- Of course. - Yeah.
(all laughing)
- So wait, Jude, you play the drums and now the keyboard.
Is there any other instrument?
Kelly's got a bunch of guitars up there.
I bet she'd give you one of those.
- Yeah. - Ah, yes.
- Would you play a guitar too?
- I could play the bass.
- Ay! Look at Kyle, my bass player, Kyle is like,
all right, come on over.
- [Kit] Bring it on.
- Well Jude, do you know what you wanna be when you grow up?
Is it something involving with music?
- Well, I wanna do music professionally
and I hope I can write songs.
I'm getting closer.
- I love that.
I started around 13, so you're ahead of the game for me.
- Yep. - I started young.
And writing is so good.
You get your feelings out and what you wanna say.
- Yeah. - Yeah.
- Writing my songs.
- I love that. - Thank you.
- So well, Christmas just passed.
Did you have a good holiday?
- Oh yes. - Yes.
I had some fancy clothes and shoes.
I like to look spiffy.
(audience applauding) - Yes, true.
- You know what, it's working.
You look really good.
Well- - Thank you.
- I'm sure you got a lot of amazing presents,
but we got you some more.
So just check this out.
- Oh. - Ooh.
- So these are some of our favorite gifts
from our holiday gift card.
So there's a Nintendo Switch.
There's a Nintendo Switch with the Nintendo Switch Sports,
which I love Switch.
There's a Phillips wireless party speaker,
which is, just blast yourself through that.
A Visio 65 inch 4K HDR smart TV.
- Oh my God.
- A $600 gift card from Woom, which makes the coolest bikes.
Yes (laughs).
- Right on the speaker.
I love listening to music.
- Yeah, me too.
That's one of my favorites too.
Also, you're gonna get a trip for four with Airfare
including Airfare to Lego Land Resort
in California, Florida, or New York, whichever one.
I know.
Have you ever been to Lego Land?
- Ahh ...
- It's incredible.
Yeah. - Wow!
- I'm 40 years old
and I like it just as much as my kids.
- We are interested.
- Yeah, you are interested.
(all laughing)
- Of course we're interested, come on.
- I love it.
Okay, so we have one more surprise, you ready?
- All right. - All right.
Well, my music director, Jason Halbert over there,
he is an incredible pianist
and we've been working together for 20 years now.
He literally can play any song,
I swear to you, I ask him all the time.
And he plays on the show,
we've written songs together,
many songs that were number on the radio.
So he's a great songwriter as well.
So Jason is offered to mentor you
to help develop your sound.
So he's going to work with you to arrange music
and help with your writing.
- Of course.
- Of course. (audience applauding)
- We would love to have him.
- Alright, so there's more.
So in a few months we'd like you to come back maybe
and play for us. - Of course.
- So we can hear what you've been working on.
- Yep. (upbeat music)
♪ Oh yeah ♪
♪ Hey ♪
- Playing with the band.
(indistinct)
He's incredible.
(audience applauding)