“Live music is back.. and I’m ready to put on a show.'
“I remember the first class. I hated it. I couldn’t can stand it. But the teacher pulled me aside, looked at my hands and said, ‘No, I see something in you. There’s more in you,’” Boakye recalled. “Growing up in a single parent household without a father, I never heard those words before. That’s how music changed my life.”
Boakye’s skills, smarts and determination got him into Berklee College of Music in Boston. He crowdfunded to supplement a partial scholarship in order to finish his first year of classes.“Right now, I’m trying to re-fund raise money to get back to Berklee. Education is key and it’s important. So, $20,000 is grand prize, I think they can help,” Boakye said.
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