Almost every ventriloquist has a picture like this

That's my little brother Mike standing next to me and my dummy Jackie.  Mike was 6, I was about 10.  I performed with a local troupe of kid entertainers in Bakersfield. 

Rick Davis was a 10-year-old piano prodigy.  He would blow big bubblegum bubbles while playing Bach.  It was Rick's Dad who organized the troupe and booked the gigs at Masonic Lodges, school assemblies, church groups and the like.  Rick's little brother played Fender electric guitar and sang rock tunes.  I thought that was cool.

My little brother Mike played saxophone and basketball.  (He got real tall.).