Billboard names KSU’s music and leisure enterprise faculty amongst ‘best’ in world

KENNESAW, Ga. – Billboard Journal simply named Kennesaw State’s Music and Leisure Enterprise College among the many “best” on this planet. It is a acquainted recognition for this system that has earned the excellence 4 years in a row.

It is the type of place the place excessive profile entertainers like John Driskell Hopkins of the Zac Brown Band can simply casually drop in on a category prefer it’s nothing.

College students on the Joel Kats Music and Leisure Enterprise College on KSU’s campus know that they are the following era of leaders within the leisure trade.

“I name them actual world practitioners,” Keith Perissi, the director of this system, stated, “Everybody that is right here is definitely within the enterprise.”

Perissi is a musician himself. He stated he constructed this system with an emphasis on college students studying from these working within the trade.

“For me it is the whole lot,” Perissi stated, “Once I was their age, these are the sorts of those who I’d have cherished to have recognized in my journey.”

One of many program’s college students, Kyla Younger, is on a novel journey of her personal right here.

She needs to begin her personal aviation acrobatics enterprise when she graduates subsequent yr, so she stated she’s right here to learn to be an entertainer.

“What I actually gained is that confidence in being a performer, that data on tips on how to develop an occasion or something to do with leisure from the bottom up,” stated Younger.

She’s arguably in an awesome place to do this.

Billboard Journal’s rating of the college places it among the many prime faculties on this planet for the fourth yr straight, including high-profile status to Kennesaw State.

“For us, it is unimaginable as a result of we’re such a younger program to be named with all these different nice applications,” stated Perissi. “Anybody can enter this constructing and succeed. We’re form of just like the U.N. of the leisure enterprise.”

Talking of the constructing’s entrance, you will discover partitions full of memorabilia from the trade’s titans. From paintings by Michael Jackson, to far too many platinum data to depend, it is all been donated by Joel Katz. He was the legendary lawyer to many of those stars.

“Joel Katz means the whole lot to this place. He is our namesake and essential donor, our inspiration,” stated Perissi. “He is opened doorways for us that almost all college students would not have entry to.”

Katz has topped extra recording superstars than anybody within the trade, and thru his philanthropy and involvement, he is grooming its subsequent era.

“We’re all artists,” stated Chris Sinclair, a junior in this system. “All of us love both music, or movie or theater. And we’re all within the leisure trade. And all of us create collectively. All people’s actually artistic. And it is type of like an enormous household.”

Perhaps that is the key to its success.

The Billboard recognition stays an vital milestone for the nonetheless pretty new program.

“That is type of the spirit of our program, whether or not its on digicam, or in a studio in mixing, or if in enterprise, when you get this chance, it is yours to take and succeed,” stated Perissi.