Other artists plan to use the funding to give back to the community that has nurtured them. Rogers (pictured at left), who co-founded The Breed Entertainment in 2009 with Rashad Johnson, is currently working toward nonprofit status for The Breed Academy Music Production and Music Business Program, a teaching program in arts, entertainment and production designed for young New Haveners.
Raised in the city’s West Hills neighborhood, Rogers has gone on to hold a career as a Grammy-nominated producer. With the Breed Academy, he said he wants to bring what he has learned back to the city’s kids.
While the $4,000 from the grant is not enough to establish a brick and mortar space (he does already have recording studios in Amity and Hamden), he called it a huge step forward for the nonprofit.
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