Grammy Camp Selects Goose Creek Senior

Music City will be turning out new tunes from a local teen this week.

Goose Creek High senior Stephen Freeman is one of 33 students selected to travel to Nashville for Grammy Camp's first 2012 session.

For eight days, Freeman will be learning from industry professionals in a Music Row recording studio, following the entire creative process from creation to launch party.

In all, 136 young people were selected nationwide for the Grammy Foundation's music industry camps this year, with two other sessions held later this summer in New York and Los Angeles.

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"GRAMMY Camp is one of our most immersive programs in terms of exposing young people to what it's like to have an actual working career in the music business," said Neil Portnow, president and CEO of The Recording Academy and the Grammy Foundation. "And the opportunity to receive instruction directly from GRAMMY-winning artists and industry professionals instills knowledge, confidence and lasting lessons in students." 

A drum captain at Goose Creek High School, Stephen submitted an application with a sample of his work posted on Youtube — interpretations of modern and classic pop music. 

"He lives and breaths music," said Helen Freeman, Stephen's mom. "He has an amazing talent and I'm excited for him."

Stephen's older brother, Quentin Ravenel, is a popular local drummer performing with Ben Fagan & the Holy City Hooligans. 

"I have two amazingly talented boys," Helen Freeman said. "Music is what they live for."