From no studio experience to hip-hop engineer in a few months? How does something like that happen? Ask Recording Connection student Darryl Thiessen, who got hired at YSMG, one of the top up-and-coming hip-hop labels in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Darryl came to the Recording Connection with nothing more than a desire to work in the industry. […]
Coke Youngblood knew from an early age that he wanted to move to Los Angeles and pursue a career as a songwriter/producer. “I remember coming out here [to L.A.] when I was 16 to go to Universal Studios with my brother and my stepmom and my dad,” he says, “and I just remember being here […]
“I’ve always loved music,” says Recording Connection student Heather Crawford. “It’s something that’s always been a part of my soul. It was this early love of music that first steered Heather toward the club scene. “I had some friends that are into Djing, and so I just started messing around on the equipment, fell in […]
When Orlando Gomez enrolled in the Recording Connection, he had one primary goal in mind: to launch a career as a music producer and audio engineer. So when he was placed as an apprentice at the up-and-coming Beacon Hill Recording Studios in El Paso, TX, he approached it with a simple mindset that literally enabled […]
When asked how he found Recording Connection, Scott Johnson says, “I had been in college doing a lot of stuff, but I knew that wasn’t leading me towards anything I actually wanted to do. So I left and did Recording Connection instead. And so far, it’s been working out for me.” Perhaps the words “working […]
Alysse LeFevre recalls how her love affair with music began when she was just 12 years old. “My parents signed me up for piano when I was 12,” she says, “I really didn’t want to do it but I ended up liking it a lot, and I found that a lot of the people I […]
A self-described “middle-class white Jewish kid in San Francisco,” Issac Wolfe seemed perhaps an unlikely guy to be drawn to rap music. “I always connected a lot with it,” he says. “I listened to these stories of kids, you know, talking about gang violence and growing up and struggling, and I felt far more emotionally […]
Imagine what it would be like to study audio engineering in a world-class studio under someone who had worked with some of your favorite bands. This is exactly what happened with Learn From Legends scholarship winner Travis Ball when he found himself apprenticing in Nashville, TN with Grammy-winning audio engineer Ryan Hewitt. “Back in middle […]
“I hated school,” says Recording Connection graduate Paul Raymond. “I hated the fact that my teacher had to teach 20 kids because I didn’t learn anything. I already knew what they were learning, so I wasn’t learning anything new.” So when Paul decided to pursue a music industry career, he was admittedly reluctant about the […]
When you’re trying to break into the film industry, one might think the “to-do” list looks something like this: write a killer script, pitch the script to Hollywood, raise the money, make your breakout film… For Film Connection student Jonathan Zambrano, the list looks a little less grandiose. His task list: work gigs, paid and […]
