Report: Charlotte Musician To Educate Kids With Heavy Metal Album

July 28, 2008

Mark Price of the Charlotte Observer reports: Charlotte musician Eric Bryant is at work on an album that is likely to be the world's first educational heavy metal CD — for preschoolers. (Watch video report at this location.)

The project has already earned a measure of credibility, thanks to a grant from the Arts & Science Council.

"No one has called me crazy," says Bryant, 35, who works with children at the Easter Seals/UCP Child Development Center in Charlotte. "My generation does not see this as weird. When we were kids, people called heavy metal fans hoods, but we grew up to be parents like everybody else."

The idea for the album is based on his own experiences as a father of two, ages 3 and 5, who have loved the "borderline annoying" music of acts like Barney or the Wiggles. It can be like slow torture for parents, he says.

Read the entire article from the Charlotte Observer.

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