Students at LGA
had the opportunity to learn about and make music with Khalif Neville, a keyboardist who hales from Western MA. Khalif, 21, is the son of Charles Neville and was raised in one of the most preeminent musical families in America, that of the Neville Brothers who have been together since the late 1970’s. Khalif knows the importance of being exposed to music as a young person and began playing the keyboard by the age of 4 years old. Khalif brings his passion and love of all kinds of music to his work with young people. He loves hip hop, electronic music, funk as well as jazz music. Khalif just released his second album “Wishin”.
LGA music specialist, Felicia Sloin understands the importance of not only putting instruments, like ukuleles, recorders, and drums, directly in the hands of students; she likes to ask them to make their own music through her class on songwriting and expose students to musicians to explore their own musical expression.
Felicia Sloin said, “Students are inspired when they have the opportunity to be with a musician like Khalif, who is fully engaged. His passion is contagious, and the students realize that they too are musicians.”