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FACEBOOK Sparsh Shah, known by his rapper name PURHYTHM was born with an incurable brittle bone disease

The cover, which has over a million views on YouTube, has even caught the attention of Eminem’s record label team, Shady Records. Now Sparsh Shah hopes his idol will also notice. Sparsh, whose family immigrated from India to the US before he was born, said: “I feel like 'Not Afraid' has been my power song ever since I heard it for the first time and Eminem became my idol in the rap genre."

He added: "He has inspired me so much with his powerful songs and lyrics, minus curses.” Sparsh was born with the incurable disease Osteogenesis Imperfecta, which makes his bones extremely brittle. Even a hard hand shake can break his bones because he cannot bear the weight on his hands. The weight pressures of walking have also left him in a wheelchair.

YOUTUBE Sparsh accompanies his singing by playing the keyboard on his iPad

TWITTER His video even captured the attention of Enimem's label, Shady Records

Known by his rap name, PURHYTHM, Sparsh has also written and composed several original songs including Count on Me. In April 2015, Sparsh participated and won the prestigious talent competition Young Voice of NYC. Although singing is not the only talent of this child prodigy. Sparsh has memorised 250 digits of Pi, can speak some of the 12 longest words in English dictionary in less than 18 seconds, and he has written a number of poems and short stories. He was also part of winning Watt NXT Robotics team at state and regional levels and he then participated at the World Robotics Championship in St. Louis.

YOUTUBE The 12 year old even breaks out into a rap

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