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Stax Music Academy's teen students mark 25th anniversary, Black History Month with concert

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Stax Music Academy celebrates Black History Month and 25th anniversary.

The Memphis music studio where some of America ’s most recognizable songs were recorded decades ago is now a museum.

Stax Records produced soul and R&B classics in the 1960s and 1970s .

The building has been converted into the Stax Museum of American Soul Music .

In the vocalists' rehearsal room, the group is perfecting Eddie Floyd's song about luck and love, “ Knock on Wood” Pasley Thompson , a 17-year-old singer and songwriter, calls the academy "an escape from the every day " “ Breathe. You’re not breathing,'” one instructor tells a student.

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75

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73

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formal

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English

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42

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