MUSIC WITH A MESSAGE: GEEKS GET RHYTHM Final Edition

[Rajeev Bajaj] recently spent $15,000 of his own money forming an independent record label and hiring musicians to perform four rap and hip-hop songs he wrote in praise of the engineering profession. He hopes his debut album, "Geek Rhythms," will convince America that engineers indeed are...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Published inDaily press (Newport News, Va. : Final ed.)
Main Author NICOLE C. WONG Knight Ridder Newspapers
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newport News, Va Tribune Interactive, LLC 07.02.2005
Subjects
Bajaj, Rajeev
SAN JOSE, CALIF
Online AccessGet full text

Cover

More Information
Summary:[Rajeev Bajaj] recently spent $15,000 of his own money forming an independent record label and hiring musicians to perform four rap and hip-hop songs he wrote in praise of the engineering profession. He hopes his debut album, "Geek Rhythms," will convince America that engineers indeed are cool. Success is not to be measured by recouping his costs, Bajaj said, nor by selling out of the 1,000 CDs he produced. Bajaj is more interested in luring high school students into technical fields with lyrics like: Photo (color) KRT; Rajeev Bajaj is a chemical engineer who has just released a rap, hip-hop, pop music CD that glorifies the engineering field in hopes to encourage young people to pursue the profession.