One cannot become a truly successful artist unless they are innovative and talented. Many are talented, technically proficient in all sorts of musical genres. However, it isn't until you get a unique individual, capable of creating something new out of the old, that you have a star.
These qualifications do not include today's mainstream pop music, as artists are simply synthesized and musically illiterate, save for the ability to more or less carry a tune (auto-tune can do the rest).
Here I present Gabriela Montero, a beautiful, talented woman who has revived the classical masterpieces. She is able to take modern tunes and transform them into their classical forms, incorporating more arpeggios, trills and an overall antique sound. What is more amazing is that she improvises all of it. Now improvising and classical music are contrasting terms. One requires no sheet music and simply feeling and flow. The other latter is technically structured and scripted.
Nevertheless, she has charmed audiences, mixed old with new, allowed audiences to enjoy trinkets form the past that flow through her fingers.
A little Billy Joel transformed. "For the Longest Time"
Another improvisation on Tango rhythm
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