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How Music Positively Impacts Your Brain

How Music Positively Impacts Your Brain

While many of us love and cherish music in our lives simply for it’s entertainment value, it's been shown that listening to music can improve our mental health and brain’s cognitive abilities. Depending on the genre, music can elevate our mood, relax our minds, reduce...

The Journey to Foster Care

The Journey to Foster Care

A huge part of the Real Life Real Music Foundation’s mission is helping children in foster care. With one of our founders, Kyle Hutton, being adopted and having recently been through fostering to adopting two young girls, the cause continues to weigh heavy on our...

DePelchin Children’s Center: Defending the Future of Houston, TX

DePelchin Children’s Center: Defending the Future of Houston, TX

The Real Life Real Music Foundation is very proud to be working with an organization held in such high esteem as the DePelchin Children’s Center. The main goal of DePelchin is to create a place for every child to be safe and healthy. They are an amazing adoption and...

5 Tips for Writing Great Songs

5 Tips for Writing Great Songs

Writing a great song isn’t easy. Even the world’s greatest songwriters started off writing “bad songs.” It just takes time, and repetition! However, there are a few things to know that will help you get started on your journey. So, whether you’re a beginner just...

Celebrating National Foster Care Month

Celebrating National Foster Care Month

Here at the Real Life Real Music Foundation, we’re passionate about music. But, that’s not the only thing we’re passionate about! Along with all of our musical projects, we’re constantly looking for ways to support the causes and issues we believe in- through funding,...

Live Music Meets Social Distancing

Live Music Meets Social Distancing

Times are hard, but even if we're social distancing, the essence of community doesn't have to stop. In fact, it's more important than ever. Despite all the recent hardships, it’s been so great to see the world coming together in this time of struggle- and what better...

Making Music for Good

Making Music for Good

Music is so important in many people’s lives. It encourages happiness, creates memories, allows others to express feelings, or enjoy the art of making music themselves. Many people can’t imagine life without it. So, if music can do all of this for just one individual,...

Music and the Human Experience

Music and the Human Experience

Music is such an integral part of many peoples’ lives. The simple act of hearing a song can cause your mood to shift from happy to sad, and certain songs may even have the power to transport you back in time to a certain moment in your life- the relationship between...

Self Expression – The Power of Songwriting for Foster Children

Self Expression – The Power of Songwriting for Foster Children

Over this last summer, the Real Life Real Music Foundation was given the opportunity to conduct our first “Songwriter Experience” workshop for student residents at The Settlement Home in Austin, and students adopted or fostered through DePelchin Children's Center in...