AN eight-year-old Adelaide busker's talents have attracted 12 million hits on the internet, but she was the last to know.

Hits started three weeks ago, when local photographer Michelle Robinson uploaded a snap of a young Rundle Mall busker to social networking site Google+, and photo-sharing site Picasa. The image, taken in Rundle Mall on June 30, attracted attention from as far away as Spain, Brazil and Russia.

Desperate to give the youngster a copy of her photograph, 43-year-old Robinson spent two weeks searching for the mystery "Violin Girl".

After trawling Rundle Mall, contacting Rundle Mall Manage-ment and Adelaide City Coun-cil proved fruitless, Robinson turned to AdelaideNow for help.

Within an hour of posting the photograph to the website, the mystery was solved.

Meet Elizabeth Kuskoff, who until yesterday was oblivious to the fact that her talents have become an internet sensation.

"I didn't see the photo until today," Elizabeth says.

"But I really like it."

Elizabeth first picked up a violin at the age of three, after watching older brothers Enoch, 13, and Emmanuel, 11, during home violin lessons. "When she was two, she pretended to play a toy instrument," says Elizabeth's mother Kathryn.

Born in Russia, Kathryn moved to Adelaide in 1997 after meeting her Australian husband Sergy in her homeland. "Sergy was in Russia helping his brother at a mission," says Kathryn, who plays the mandolin but takes no credit for her offspring's musical talent.

The family of seven lives in Semaphore Park, and with four of the five youngsters playing the violin, the house can get impressively noisy.

Elizabeth and brother Emmanuel busk during school holidays and occasionally on Friday nights. This pair of mini maestros is far from shy. "I don't get nervous," says Elizabeth.

Global recognition is the last thing on Elizabeth's mind and for now, she is happy delighting local pedestrians.

"When I grow up I'd like to be a violin teacher," she says with a smile. It looks like she's well on her way.

Originally published as Violin busker a global hit-maker