SpArts – Paul Vega – Music 110 – OA Thorp Scholastic Academy

Hello everyone, I am so excited to be joining the Thorp family as your music teacher! My name is Paul Vega, and I was born and raised on the south side of Chicago. I grew up going to CPS schools and now, I have the honor of teaching within CPS as well. I come from a long line of teachers, my mother is a teacher, my cousins and aunts are teachers, and my grandma was a teacher. The reason I chose to teach music is because in my life, there is nothing more important than music. Whenever I have a bad day, I put on some of my favorite albums, and I am immediately in a better mindset. Or, I might sit at the piano and play some of my favorite pieces. There is a joy in music that I can’t get anywhere else, and I want to share that joy with students.