Payam Khastkhodaei, the son of Iranian immigrants, says he's developed a new method of teaching that has students loving their piano lessons. Now his students are sweeping national competitions.

From improvising classical music to playing songs students like, the approach by Payam Music focuses on student enjoyment while learning piano.

I was in a band with one of the greatest songwriters of our generation, so I didn’t really want to rock the boat” ...

Tamba Gwindi grew up inside the beat of the drum.His father’s stinging palms on the kitchen table in Cocoyea Village, San ...