Jono El Grande is an autodidactic Norwegian composer, band leader, guitarist and conductor. During this time, he pursued autodidactic studies of Dravidian philology and comparative linguistics. He developed further in his teens towards an autodidactic multi-instrumentalist. In Alabama, Finney continued to advance as an autodidactic poet and creative artist. A short time later he started to study the melody or solo guitar autodidactic. Despite early encouragement at school, Stenning is a mostly autodidactic writer. Through further autodidactic studies, he learned French and Russian, in addition to several other languages. She became an autodidactic musician at age 12, quitting piano and starting guitar.