“Playing Solo Through Life” Being put into a mind of a genius to experience and understand what this man is going through is exactly what Mark Salzaman has done in his book The Soloist. At the age of six this musical genius, Renne, began playing the cello. Renne heard the cello for the first time and said, “I had to sing through the animals voice” (Salzman 4). At this very moment was the start of Renne’s musical career, where Renne was going to be the soloist of the cello, but as we see him growing he finally lost his unique talent. Once again Renne was a soloist, but of a different kind of soloist one without any guidance. We see Renne compared to the m