by Jeroslyn JoVonn
January 28, 2025
Music Will will honor the Grammy Award-winning musician on April 9.
Music Will’s annual profit live performance will honor three-time Grammy Award-winning musician Wyclef Jean.
The profit live performance is ready for April 9, at New York’s Gotham Corridor. Proceeds will assist the nation’s largest non-profit music schooling program for faculties, serving to Music Will broaden its attain to extra college students and youngsters nationwide.
Wyclef Jean, this yr’s music profit honoree, follows his 2022 collaboration with Music Will. He donated devices and launched a brand new music curriculum and coaching for 12 faculties in his house state of New Jersey.
“I’m actually honored to accomplice with Music Will and be part of their essential work, which I used to be in a position to expertise firsthand visiting a college in Passaic, NJ, just a few years again offering devices and assets for his or her music program,” Wyclef Jean mentioned in a press release.
“Music has the facility to vary lives. It modified mine, and thru these music packages, we’re offering younger individuals with the instruments they should discover their voices, inform their tales, and join with the world. It’s an honor to assist present that chance to extend entry to music schooling, particularly in my house of New Jersey and New York.”
This initiative was a part of the group’s rebranding from Little Children Rock to Music Will, which additionally featured partnerships with Darryl “DMC” McDaniels in Brooklyn and Smokey Robinson in Los Angeles faculties. Persevering with the partnership, Wyclef will assist launch this system in 10 further faculties throughout Brooklyn and New Jersey.
“Wyclef’s ardour for empowering younger individuals by music completely aligns with our mission to make sure each scholar, no matter their background, has entry to a music program that conjures up creativity and unlocks potential,” Mike Wasserman, CEO of Music Will, mentioned. “This occasion will likely be a celebration of the transformative energy of music and its capability to vary lives as we stay up for reaching hundreds of thousands of scholars yearly by our packages within the years to return.”
The lineup for Music Will’s 2025 profit live performance has but to be introduced.
Previous honorees and performers embody Woman Gaga, Bruce Springsteen, Bonnie Raitt, Joan Jett, and Usher.
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