Music helped open my narrow perspective on life and turned my world into 3D color. It changed my life in a major way, and it is important for me to pay that forward, which is what I’m doing with my Firework Foundation and Camp Firework, but barely 1 in 5 California schools has a music or arts program. I believe the arts open children’s minds and provide a new perspective on looking at the every day things in their lives. The research that we’ve done also shows that the arts support the positive