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Musicians who have done time12/18/2023 ![]() It was while teaching in Washington DC that her singing career took off, by way of evening performances in bars and clubs, and word of her incredible voice began to spread. Flack then embarked on a teacher training course, becoming the first black student teacher at an all-white school in Maryland, before moving on to teach music and English at a school in Farmville, North Carolina. Before she had even begun to make waves as a popular singer, she attended Howard University on a music scholarship at the humbling age of 15. ![]() Roberta FlackĪlthough renowned for her expressive singing voice and string of Number 1 hits, like “Killing Me Softly with His Song” and “Feel Like Makin’ Love”, Roberta Flack’s achievements don’t stop at the top of the charts. ![]() ![]() If his stage presence is anything to go by, one can certainly imagine him as an engaging and inspiring English teacher! 6. Upon completion of his degree, while his music career was on the rise, J-Live, or Jean-Jacques Cadet, as he’s legally known, taught middle-school English at schools in Brooklyn. Known almost as much for having persistent difficulties with his record label as for his music, hip-hop artist J-Live began his musical career while studying for a degree at the University at Albany, State University of New York, where he majored in English. Appropriately, the start of her professional music career saw her doing a jingle for an ad, selling back-to-school goods! However, after her foray into advertising, Crow soon moved on to perform backing vocals for such shining lights as Michael Jackson and Stevie Wonder, before finding success in her own right in the 1990s. Yet, rather than jumping straight into a recording career, Crow first transmitted her musical knowledge to youngsters, working as an elementary school music teacher by day and a singer on weekends. Coming from a musical family, her father played trumpet and her mother taught piano, it sounds like it was a natural choice for her to study music when she attended the University of Missouri. With nine Grammy awards and a host of other accolades to her name, Sheryl Crow is music royalty. While The Police’s hit single “Don’t Stand So Close To Me” is concerned with the inappropriate feelings of a schoolgirl for her teacher, Sting has denied that it was in any way inspired by his time spent teaching. The following year, he gave it all up to move to London, where he formed The Police, and success soon followed. While playing music in jazz bands during evenings, weekends and holidays, he spent two years from 1974 to ’76 working as a teacher in his native Newcastle, England as plain old Gordon Sumner. StingĪlthough one of just a handful of musicians so famous that they are known pretty much only by their stage names, Sting wasn’t always a multi-platinum album-selling superstar. Yet, despite her edgy image and sharp political edge, it’s a little-known fact that Peaches, real name Merrill Nisker, started out her career teaching drama and music in the rather more conservative environment of the Associated Hebrew Schools of Toronto, having herself attended a private Jewish school while growing up in Toronto. Known primarily for her brash attacks on assumed gender roles, Peaches’ music attempts to offer a riposte to traditional conceptions of sexuality. Check out these accomplished musicians, all of whom, at one point or another, spent time before the blackboard, cultivating young minds. When you’re a teacher, two things you need in abundance are energy and creativity, because keeping those young people engaged and interested is no mean feat! As these famous ex-teachers amply demonstrate, that same creative spirit can also be turned to more artistic pursuits, not to mention fame and fortune.
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