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==Early life== Styne was born to a [[Jewish]] family<ref>{{Cite web|last=Bloom|first=Nate|title=All those Holiday/Christmas Songs: So Many Jewish Songwriters!|publisher=[[Jewish World Review]]|date=December 22, 2014|url=http://jewishworldreview.com/1214/jewz_xmas.php3}}</ref> in [[London]], England.<ref name="AMG"/> His parents, Anna Kertman and Isadore Stein, were emigrants from Ukraine (then part of the [[Russian Empire]]) and ran a small grocery.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bwdaAAAAYAAJ&q=Isadore+and+Anna+%5BKertman%5D+Stein|title=Current Biography Yearbook|date=April 29, 1984|publisher=H. W. Wilson Co.|via=Google Books}}</ref> Even before his family left Britain, he did impressions on the stage of well-known singers, including [[Harry Lauder]], who saw him perform and advised him to take up the piano.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Steyn|first=Mark|author-link=Mark Steyn|title=I've Heard That Song Before|work=SteynOnline |publisher=Steyn Online|date=April 29, 2018|url=https://www.steynonline.com/8622/ive-heard-that-song-before|access-date=April 30, 2018}}</ref> At the age of eight, he moved with his family to [[Chicago]], where he began taking [[piano]] lessons. He proved to be a [[Child prodigy|prodigy]] and performed with the Chicago, [[St. Louis, Missouri|St. Louis]], and [[Detroit, Michigan|Detroit]] symphonies before he was 10 years old.
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