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By Butch Berry I know there are successful musicians out there, and I want to know how they got that way. No doubt we all want to know.

In being a musician, there is either some sort of pride with not seeking someone else's help, paying for it and doing it on your own, or just being too lazy. I never had that problem. I was not too proud to pay for someone else's

by Chris Burnett Mathias Claus is a composer, pianist and music producer who is from Germany. He grew up musically working as a live jazz pianist with a propensity towards utilization of electronic instruments such as digital modules, synthesizers, samplers and keyboards. After studies at the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, USA he graduated as a jazz pianist from Musikhochschule Hamburg, Germany. His studies also included training in classical piano techniques and music theory.

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Mark Kirby, In the sixties, Motown Records, with hit songs that influenced pop music from the Beatles and the Rolling Stones on down, and was the soundtrack to the civil rights movement, called itself "the sound of Young America." Hip Hop/R&B is the new sound of Young America. Like the great era of soul music - your father's rhythm and blues - in the sixties and seventies, today's new sound (new jack hip hop urban whatever) is coming from the streets of the cities. Back in the day it was the Detroit sound of Motown, Philly Soul, the southern fried funk of the Stax/Volt label in Memphis and Charley Records in New Orleans. Then in the 80's and early 90's, rap music and hip hop exploded the cultural scene like its predecessors did, from the ground up. Local sounds and local labels found what was really happening. And what was happening came from the creative domes of the producer.