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Visually impaired singer and pianist Scott MacIntyre began playing the piano by ear when he was only three years old. He began studying music classically at the age of six and was on the road to becoming a singer/songwriter by his teens. Home schooled until age 14, when he entered Arizona State University, MacIntyre received a Marshall scholarship to study in Britain after graduating from college at 19. In 2005 the rising young talent was diagnosed with kidney disease, though a donation from his piano teacher's wife gave him a second shot at life. MacEntire auditioned for the eighth season of American Idol with a rendition of "And So It Goes" by Billy Joel.