Lonze Reynolds is our Music Teacher for Piano. We Found him through Takelessons.com. When I wanted to continue our children’s piano lessons, but couldn’t drive, I needed to find a different solution. Our former piano teachers were amazing, but didn’t have availability for us anymore and a studio wouldn’t work with my not driving. So, I hunted for a new solution! And, voila, I found Lonze!

Lonze Reynolds also is part of a band, Kenny Thames and the Messengers

They can be found at many different locations around the valley and for private events as well.

Lonze plays and teachers Piano, Guitar and Saxophone

602-599-1205 (Lonze Reynolds) [email protected]

Kenny Thames 602-515–8787

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Speaker 0 00:03 Welcome to the Southwest life podcast with your host, me, Vicki de Luzio, where we will talk about things to boost your health, improve your relationships, find new things to do with your family, and talk with business owners in the area. And more. Thanks for being here and enjoy the show. Speaker 1 00:27 Hi guys. Today I’m here with our music teacher, Lonze Reynolds. And , not only is he our music teacher, but he also does more than that. So with that, I want to have him introduce himself. Speaker 2 00:41 Hello everybody. I’m a longe Reynolds. Um, and I’m like, she said, I’m their music teacher. I teach them piano. each kid had a half an hour, once a week. So that’s hour and a half. I get to hang out with the family here. So it’s, they have a great family. I really enjoy, you know, giving them lessons, you know, it’s, you know, my passion. So it’s never stressful when I do what I do. So I love it. Speaker 1 01:08 Yeah. And I found a launch through take lessons because I was looking for someone to come to our house. Many people know that I suffered from epilepsy and so I couldn’t drive for a while, so I needed a different solution than just going to,a music store. And sometimes when you go to a music store, you have to fit within their criteria and that really wouldn’t work for us. And then having three kids, three lessons all in a row, I was seeing that kind of go really wrong. And here at my house, the kids can be doing their homework or playing or doing their laundry, which is not their favorite thing to do. And lawns knows that Murray while grumbling. Yeah. So, um, so once, can you tell me a little bit about your background? Speaker 2 01:55 Okay. I’m, um, I’m from Detroit, Michigan originally. I have a twin sister and an older sister and of course a mom and dad. And that was, we had a, you know, kind of a smaller, well, I wouldn’t say a small family, but you know, it was just me and my twin and my older sister. And, I’m the middle child. I’m five minutes older than my twins.

Speaker 1 02:21 And you let her know that was in charge.

Speaker 2 02:25 And then \I went off to, go to high school at Cass tech. It’s a very renowned high school in Detroit. You know, it’s, it has a great music program. They have a good consistent, sports program. Also play football. I was there also and that’s where I developed my passion and love for music through one of my fellow students. w we, we kind of took me on the mind, his wing. They introduced me to jazz and I really got into it and you know, created a passion for me because I, in third grade I played the saxophone and the clarinet and you know how it is when you’re young, you know, really, he’s squeaking you squash, you squeaking, you squash, you just do it because you kind of made, you know, you’re forced. So, you know, through those years I just played and didn’t practice a whole lot. Speaker 2 03:16 I practiced some, you know, and I was decent. I wasn’t the worst kid in the