Taj Farrant

Taj Farrant (born: ) is an Australian guitarist and social media personality often called a prodigy. He has appeared on Australia's Got Talenthttps://www.newidea.com.au/natalie-bassingthwaighte-rocks-the-australias-got-talent-semi-finals-show and TheEllenShow.https://consequenceofsound.net/2019/03/kid-guitarist-guns-n-roses-ellen/https://www.billboard.com/articles/news/8503427/9-year-old-boy-ellen-degeneres-sweet-child-o-mine-guitar-solo Taj has over 283,000 subscribers on YouTube, 915,000 followers on Facebook and 88,000 followers on Instagram.
==Career==
Taj's love of guitar started at 6 and a half years old after going to an AC/DC concert with his Dad, Pop and Uncle. Sitting on his Dad's shoulders watching Angus Young shred, he bends down and says to his Dad "I want to do that for the rest of my life". After begging for his own guitar, his family bought him his first guitar. A 2009 Cherry Red Gibson SG, which later got the nickname "The Wife". 
Farrant has generated many views on his YouTube channel ever since his first video upload, his cover of the song "Tennessee Whiskey" has over 11 million views. Farrant's first viral video was him playing Pink Floyd's "Comfortably Numb" blind folded at the age of 9.
In 2018, Taj scored his first major endorsement with Shure, played on stage with local Australian legends Steve Edmonds and Ash Grunwald at the Byron Bay Guitar Festival. Taj became the youngest guitarist to get endorsed by Gibson.
In 2019, Taj attended his very first NAMM Show where he secured more big name endorsers such as Elixir Nexi Industries and Friedman Amplification and officially got welcomed into the Gibson Family. In 2019, Taj signed on with QSC, Dorsey Productions and appearing on his first major day time talk show TheEllenShow.
At the House of Blues event in Las Vegas in 2020, he was invited on stage by Carlos Santana for a jam session. A video of the session, posted to Farrant's YouTube channel, currently has garnered over 2 million views.
In September of 2020, Taj released his first single, "Just Can't Sleep" on Spotify.
==Musical equipment==
The guitar Taj used on Australia's Got Talent and TheEllenShow is a Gibson SG. This led to Taj- 9 years old at the time- becoming the youngest guitarist to be endorsed by Gibson and Elixir Strings.https://7news.com.au/the-morning-show/9-year-old-guitarist-taj-farrant-is-already-a-prodigy-after-less-than-three-years-of-playing-c-53092
==References==
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