{"id":15573,"date":"2013-04-04T09:10:16","date_gmt":"2013-04-04T19:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=15573"},"modified":"2021-11-26T13:56:18","modified_gmt":"2021-11-26T23:56:18","slug":"meles-making-music-industry-professionals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2013\/04\/04\/meles-making-music-industry-professionals\/","title":{"rendered":"MELE\u2019s making music industry professionals"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"676\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/y49ky3uDqAY\" title=\"Youtube video player\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>If you are ever on the University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> campus of <a href=\"http:\/\/mele.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/\">Honolulu Community College<\/a> or <abbr>HCC<\/abbr>, there is a good chance you&#8217;ll hear music. That&#8217;s because <abbr>HCC<\/abbr> is home to the <abbr>MELE<\/abbr> program, which stands for <a href=\"http:\/\/www2.honolulu.hawaii.edu\/?q=node\/481\">Music and Entertainment Learning Experience<\/a>. It is the state&#8217;s only school for music industry careers, so there are a lot of musically inclined students on campus. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I don&#8217;t think I will ever put down a <span aria-label=\"ukulele\">&#699;ukulele<\/span> or a guitar,&rdquo; said <abbr>HCC<\/abbr> and <abbr>MELE<\/abbr> program student <strong>Keanu Solidum<\/strong>. &ldquo;It will always be a part of my life.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I have been doing music for a number of years before the <abbr>MELE<\/abbr> program,&rdquo; said fellow <abbr>HCC<\/abbr> student <strong>Christopher Salvador<\/strong>, who is also in the program. &ldquo;I wanted to just get educated on the business and legal aspects of the music business.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The <abbr>MELE<\/abbr> program offers a two-year degree in audio engineering with hands-on instruction on state-of-the-art equipment, and a two-year degree in the music business. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Everything from record companies, musical publishing companies, artist managers, booking agents, marketing and promotions, all of these types of career pathways are all involved in the industry,&rdquo; said <strong>Eric Lagrimas<\/strong>, the program&#8217;s interim coordinator and music business instructor. Hundreds of students have gone through the <abbr>MELE<\/abbr> program since it was launched in 2007. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Some of our graduates have recently worked with Kanye West, Ludicrous, any aspect of the Hawaiian entertainment industry, Anuhea, as well as many groups that you hear on the radio,&rdquo; said Lagrimas. &ldquo;We&#8217;re trying to develop a flourishing entertainment industry here in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>, much like a Nashville or a New York and <abbr>LA<\/abbr>. And I think it starts with education and I think educating <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span> students with these type of skills will basically help the future of the industry.&rdquo; <\/p>\n<p>The students currently in the program agree. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I think this program is really good because it will set you up with the fundamentals that you need to grow in order to, you know, kind of grow at the same pace that all the schools are providing on the mainland so I feel they are doing a really great job down here,&rdquo; said Solidum. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We have a wonderful facility here for recording as well as business and just talking to the instructors gives you a good perspective of where you might want to go with music,&rdquo; said Salvador. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honolulu <abbr>CC<\/abbr>&#8217;s MELE program aims to develop a flourishing entertainment industry in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Hawai&#699;i<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,12],"tags":[62,404],"class_list":["post-15573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","category-video","tag-honolulu-community-college","tag-music-and-entertainment-learning-experience","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15573"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":152295,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15573\/revisions\/152295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}