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What is Lucy, the blind and autistic 13-year-old winner of The Piano doing now? From performing at the Royal Albert Hall to being nominated at the BAFTA awards


Viewers of Channel 4 's The Piano were left captivated by the victorious performance on the show's debut from 13-year-old blind and autistic girl, Lucy, but where is she now?

The teenager from Halifax in West Yorkshire moved viewers to tears with an awe-inspiring recital of Debussy's Arabesque, leading judges Lang Land and Mika to call her a 'genius'. On her way to The Piano's final, Lucy wowed passers by at Leeds train station with her rendition of Chopin's Nocturne in B-flat minor, with the video being viewed over five million times online. Since recording the show, hosted by Claudia Winkleman, Lucy has been learning more and more pieces by artists including Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Duke Ellington and Stevie Wonder.

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