Singer, songwriter, actress, popular podcast host, and all-round pop culture icon Kesha has teamed up with the London, UK/Austin, Texas-based Soundwaves Art Foundation to help raise funds for the nonprofit Stax Music Academy, an afterschool and summer music institute at the original site of Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee. Soundwaves has created an artwork based […]
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Bob Mehr Memphis Commercial Appeal This week, Justin Timberlake was back in Memphis — at least via computer — as he video conferenced into a workshop with students of the Stax Music Academy. Timberlake and a team of his associated producers, musicians and industry figures helped guide a two-month creative class and mentorship program, called […]
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By Chris Herrington, Daily MemphianUpdated: June 17, 2021 10:10 PM CT | Published: June 17, 2021 8:17 PM CT Justin Timberlake worked with a group of Stax Music Academy students on a “Song Lab” writing and production project. Students presented their completed songs to Timberlake, and their parents, via Zoom. (Courtesy of Justin Timberlake/Imprint Projects) “Traditionally, […]
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The Stax Music Academy announced today that plans for its usual Summer Music Experience have changed amid the lingering COVID pandemic. Because so many area students have been isolated for the past year and music is something naturally done together and shared, Stax Music Academy summer plans now include four, one-week, in-person Summer Music Intensives […]
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