Black Eyed Peas to start music academy in NYC

[April 20, 2011]  NEW YORK (AP) -- The Black Eyed Peas are opening a school where New York City teens will be able to learn video and music production using professional-quality equipment.

The six-time Grammy Award winners announced Tuesday their Peapod Foundation together with the Adobe Foundation will open a new Peapod Adobe Youth Voices music and multimedia academy in lower Manhattan.

The two foundations already run three Youth Voices academies in California -- in Los Angeles, Oakland and Redwood City.

The New York academy will offer classes to students ages 13 to 19 starting this July.

The Peapod Foundation is the hip-hop group's charitable organization. It's administered by the Entertainment Industry Foundation.

The Adobe Foundation is the philanthropic arm of software maker Adobe Systems Inc.

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Online:

http://www.peapodfoundation.org/

http://www.adobe.com/aboutadobe/
philanthropy/foundation/

[Associated Press]

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