The other night at my show in L.A., a fan told me he traveled from Moscow to see me. “Because it’s different-because it’s something you haven’t seen before. “The same reasons I was told I wouldn’t succeed are the reasons people travel hundreds of miles to see me now,” she says. Her success story has become an inspiration to millions of fans across the globe. The rejection fueled her resolve to succeed on her own terms and use the violin as her ultimate form of personal expression, regardless of what industry insiders might say. Voted off during the quarterfinals, she was told by then-judge Piers Morgan that the world had no place for a dancing dub-step violinist. tour, the classically trained musician (who is now 27) first came to prominence in 2010 as a “hip-hop violinist” on America’s Got Talent. Her groundbreaking mix of Celtic folk, modern classical, dance, rock and EDM made her a YouTube sensation (with over 4.8 million subscribers and 600 million total views on her Lindseystomp YouTube channel), and her just released sophomore album Shatter Me (on her indie label Lindseystomp) debuted on the Billboard 200 at #2.Ĭurrently in the midst of a 46-city U.S. Stirling never reached that childhood goal, but these days, she’s a fast rising force in another realm, completely changing the way her chosen instrument is perceived. “I wanted to grow up to be a concert master, because they were the rock star of the orchestra,” she says. She recalls being particularly fascinated by the concert master, who stood up and tuned the entire orchestra and whose first stroke prompted the ensemble to play. Lindsey Stirling was six-years-old when she asked her mom if she could take violin lessons after attending an orchestral concert her parents took her to.

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