{"id":485728,"date":"2019-05-11T08:18:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=834339"},"modified":"2019-05-11T08:18:11","modified_gmt":"2019-05-11T14:18:11","slug":"khalid-launches-music-and-fine-arts-foundation-for-communities-in-need","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/khalid-launches-music-and-fine-arts-foundation-for-communities-in-need\/","title":{"rendered":"Khalid Launches Music and Fine Arts Foundation for Communities in Need"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/10222625gu.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/khalid\/\" id=\"auto-tag_khalid\" data-tag=\"khalid\">Khalid<\/a> risen to fame, he has consistently shown love for his hometown of El Paso, Texas. Now, he\u2019s giving back to the community in his own way.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-khalid-free-spirit-817798\/\"><em>Free Spirit<\/em><\/a> singer announced the launch of <a href=\"https:\/\/thegreatkhalidfoundation.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">The Great Khalid Foundation<\/a> in El Paso on May 10th: a music and fine arts organization that aims to help underserved communities. The website for the foundation says its goal is to foster \u201can atmosphere of support and freedom for kids to dream BIG! Through our music education programs, scholarship awards, and gift giveaways we are investing in our children and in their future.\u201d The website gives those interested the option of volunteering, donating or becoming a sponsor.<\/p>\n<p>The Great Khalid Foundation has already shared&nbsp;three Performing Arts scholarship recipients in El Paso on Instagram. \u201cIf I wasn\u2019t in the position I am in life right now, I would\u2019ve became a music teacher,\u201d Khalid captioned the post. \u201cLuckily, I get to teach in a way I would\u2019ve never imagined! I wanna give a congratulations to all of the Performing Arts Scholarship winners! Everything is super new right now and it\u2019s all a work in progress but you gotta start somewhere! Manifestation is super important! One day I WILL open up a school, but I gotta believe in myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BxTPu0bFEA-\/\" data-instgrm-version=\"12\" readability=\"-1.3507556675063\"><\/blockquote>\n<p>Khalid released his sophomore album <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-album-reviews\/review-khalid-free-spirit-817798\/\"><em>Free Spirit<\/em><\/a> in April, the follow-up to his 2017 debut <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-features\/khalid-how-a-lonely-teenager-made-the-years-freshest-most-surprising-debut-195908\/\"><em>American Teen<\/em><\/a>. The singer will head out on a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-free-spirit-world-tour-dates-815977\/\">North American tour<\/a> in support of his new record beginning June 20th in Phoenix, Arizona.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/khalid-music-fine-arts-foundation-el-paso-834339\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Khalid risen to fame, he has consistently shown love for his hometown of El Paso, Texas. Now, he\u2019s giving back to the community in his own way. The Free Spirit singer announced the launch of The Great Khalid Foundation in El Paso on May 10th: a music and fine arts organization that aims to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485728","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 01:59:11","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}