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The Del Couch Music Education Foundation offers children free access to music education, recording equipment and mentorship. The foundation is located inside the Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Florida, where the program founder and director Del Couch conducts four levels of classroom training in music recording and production and providing performance opportunities through events and mentorships. Alumni of the program include 2014 fifth-place American Idol finalist, Sam Woolf, and singer-songwriter recording artist Matt Walden, Colton Cason, and more. == History == Del Couch began playing the trumpet in high school and formed the school’s award-winning brass band "The Mantic Brass," which was recognized by Herb Alpert of the Tijauna Brass and later was signed by Christine McGuire of the McGuire Sisters to open her nightclub shows. Couch was drafted while attending college and auditioned for the United States Air Force Band, which he was accepted into and played with for three-and-a-half years, playing for President Richard Nixon at various events and supporting the 1st Tactical Fighter Wing, Strike Command, and others at military events. After college, Couch took a break from music to raise a family and build a real estate career. After a successful real estate career as a Real Estate Broker/owner, he rekindled his love of music and began a successful career with the band "Shaman" that performed upwards of 200 corporate events a year and performed with the " Billy Rice Band" at events around the Southeast. In the 1990s, he decided to go back into music production and earned a master's degree in music production from the Berklee College of Music in 2006. He developed a professional music studio in his home, and began recording. A neighbor’s gardener asked if Couch could help his nephew, a young Chicano rapper, The Lazy Menace, Mario Martinez,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=YouTube - MMartinezMusic )〕 and Couch produced the boy’s CD, which eventually sold 4,000 copies and led the rapper to be signed by a recording company in Los Angeles. It was then that Couch decided to offer free production services to children. In 2012, Manatee School for the Arts in Palmetto, Florida agreed to allow Couch to move his studio onto the school grounds and provide classes for the students who attend the school. The studio also produces professional CDs for students and show production CDs for the school. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Del Couch Music Education Foundation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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