Monnette Sudler never skips a vote. Never will. But as a kid, Sudler says, she wasn’t into politics. For her, it was all music.

Because music is a gateway to the things that matter to you. What matters to us is what motivates us to vote. Hill-Freeman Music Director...

By Giovanna Cicalese When I was younger, I listened to all kinds of music on the radio, mostly guided by my dad, a drummer. I played...

By Lorene Cary Special thanks to the Escobar family: three talented young musicians who live with their parents in suburban Philadelphia....

By Lorene Cary I wanted to play trumpet. Blow blow hard! A kid who had asthma, whose breathing sometimes felt like sucking air through a...

By Jada Orr When I was younger I had a lot of unorthodox idols in the music industry. I enjoyed singers with dark and gritty sounds and...

By Shamaur Williams THEN When I was younger I was hidden within myself. Locked away in my head, because I never kept a steady home,...

By Umu Diallo As a child I wanted to do everything. At first it was writing, then singing, then playing an instrument and so on. You...

By Jamison Cooper THEN The strings seem flat, silver, light. No formal connection to pitch. Just noise. Noise that makes pretty and ugly...