Local award company wants to sponsor a sound engineer
The Springs Hip Hop Awards Scholarship Programme is looking to sponsor a resident from Springs or KwaThema to study sound engineering.
“I want to do this because most bursaries don’t cover the cost to study sound engineering.
“If I had a choice, I would have studied music but nobody wanted to fund that.
“Many in the township don’t have the money to study music, so I want to help someone else achieve their dream,” says Tshepo Martin Moagi, founder of the scholarship.
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The programme is looking for someone with a musical ear, passion for music, be between the ages of 18-23 and have passed matric with an admission for a Bachelors degree.
According to Moagi, a sound engineer is a person who brings life to a beat and makes sure all the audio components of a song are well balanced and fuse together well.
Moagi says, “I would love it if more women applied for this scholarship.
“There are not many women in this profession and I think hip-hop is ready for a ‘boss lady’ who is confident, assertive and really good at her craft.”
The winning candidate would receive funding for a year and would either study at Boston College or the Academy of Sound Engineering.
The closing date for entries is September 1 and applicants should submit their CVs, academic transcript and proof of residence to springshiphopawards@gmail.com and household income must not exceed R135 000 per year.
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