FOR OVER TWO YEARS, sisters Katelynn, 7, and leeann, 5, have been playing the keyboard.
Over the years the pair has also been able to memorise a number of Bible verses at the King Street Seventh Day Adventist Church.
Katelynn’s talents do not stop there. This outspoken child said she also enjoyed singing and lots of drawing.
“I want to be a pastor. I say my memory verses and sing at church. I usually [recite] the memory verses for my grandmother. I enjoy going to different places such as visiting the cave,” she said.
They both attend the Westbury Primary School. Katelynn is in Class one while Leeann is in Infants A.
The Parkinson Road, Grazettes, St Michael residents are perhaps two of the most free-spirited children around. According to their mother Anita, they were just “naturally happy all the time”.
“They love playing and doing their work together. They are very talented and I am very proud of them. They started playing the keyboard, not professionally, but from home about two years I would say. I know a little music from school so I help them, and their father plays the keyboard and the guitar so we decided to introduce them to it,” said Anita.
Their father, Stephen Clarke, said he was very proud of his daughters. He said Katelynn was quiet but would still carry on a conversation. He describes Leeann as “mouthy”. “Leeann would be the one to go in front and want to protect her sister although she was the younger one,” he said.
Stephen said his daughters were “extremely” enthusiastic about learning how to play the keyboard although Leeann did not know how to play read the music just yet.
“So much so that when I play a rhythm on the base, Katelynn would start creating a song to it,” he said.
Katelynn, whose favourite food is macaroni pie and chicken, said thatas she started her drawing, ideas would just come.
“I just look at a picture and start my drawing and add a little as I go along,” she said, taking out some of her many drawings.
When asked what she wanted to become, Leeann replied with a grin: “I want to be a doctor.” Through smiles, she also noted that her favourite activity was colouring.
Mum Anita said she was always interested in various aspects of the arts as well, noting that she used to do poetry for NIFCA. She said she never had any problems with her children apart from when she had to “pick up the crayons after they [had] finished their colouring”.
