Lachlan Connors became a musical genius who plays “absolutely beautiful” music on a range of different instruments after suffering a series of concussions.
Connors was an avid lacrosse player who planned to someday go professional when his dreams came to a halt in sixth grade when, after sustaining several concussions, doctors told him he should steer clear of contact sports.
But the hard hits appeared to shift his brain, and he can now play music almost effortlessly on “roughly 10 to 13 instruments.” That includes the piano, guitar, mandolin, ukelele, harmonica, karimba, and bagpipes.
Before, “He really had no talent,” his mother Elsie Hamilton said told CBS.
But now, “When Lachlan plays it’s absolutely beautiful.”
Dr. Spyridon Papadopoulos told CBS that the concussions appear to have turned on a new part of Connors’ brain.
“The thought is just a theory — that this was a talent laying latent in his brain and somehow was uncovered by his brain rewiring after the injury,” Papadopoulos said. “Clearly something happened in his brain and his brain had to recover from injury and change happened. And change may have uncovered this ability no one knew he had.”
Connors plays music solely by ear, and can’t read music.
Connors, now a junior at Kent Denver High School in Colorado, is now enamored with playing instruments.
“Music is the thing that gets me up in the morning,” he said.
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