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By Rachel Davis Karr

Most people don’t find themselves accidentally owning a business, but, for Kyla Duckworth that’s exactly what happened. “I taught piano lessons for years at other music studios,”

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Duckworth explained. “I have been a worship leader since I was a teenager and would teach kids at my church.”

After some personal changes for Kyla, she began teaching music lessons from her dad’s basement. Then a friend allowed them to use

// Continued on Page 21 // the church basement if she taught for their homeschool program in exchange for rent. Then, two years ago, she opened Musicality. In no time, she went from four students in her dad’s basement to more than 150 now.

“I feel like my steps were ordered by the Lord,” Duckworth said. “He wanted me to do it and it just happened and I didn’t really know that was the direction we were going.”

It may not have been a planned route, but Duckworth could not be happier that she gets to share her love of music with so many people. She also hopes that her students, who are mostly children, will find the positive outlet in music that she did.

“I grew up doing music and it just saved me in so many situations,” Duckworth explained. “Finding my identity in something good like that, so I wasn’t making friends with the wrong people, and I was involved in something that was good for me.”

Duckworth also said that music gave her confidence in herself and her own abilities and that is something she hopes to instill in her students.

“I don’t want to just teach music, I want them to grow in confidence,” Duckworth explained. “We started teaching by accident, but then we started to realize kids were growing so much in other ways.”

Her three goals for every student are:

• We want to provide quality music education.

• We want to help your kid grow in confidence and creativity.

• Fun!

Parents of children who have special needs or who have been through trauma also benefit from the lessons taught at Musicality. Parents have told Duckworth that their child couldn’t play sports or had refused to talk to a therapist, but opened up while learning music.

Duckworth encourages kids to find their

// Continued from Page 20 // // Continued on Page 22 // own unique sound through her tagline: “You have a sound the world needs to hear.” She also often tells prospective students or parents, “We help you find, develop and release your sound.”

“It’s more than just learning music lessons, we want the kid to grow as a person and realize they have worth,” Duckworth said. Some of the kids benefit more from group lessons and enjoy feeling like they are part of a team, and many of them like the concerts that are held at the end of each semester.

“We have ‘Release Your Sound’ concerts at the end of each semester, so the kids have an opportunity to release their sound and not just learn in a classroom with a teacher and never use their talents,” Duckworth explained. “Even if they are a first-time student, they get to be in the concert, if they want to.”

They also visit places like The Day Place and perform for Friends who spend their days there. Duckworth said they used to go into nursing homes but COVID stopped that a few years ago.

Their Raise the Praise Worship Band performs at churches and other places where they can lead praise.

Currently Musicality students can learn piano, voice, drums, guitar or ukulele. There is also a worship band, music and movement classes for young kids and music for homeschoolers. In the future, Musicality may look for a larger space in order to expand its offerings into other instruments or even other arts.

Kids can start lessons as young as 3, but Musicality isn’t just for kids, Duckworth said. In fact, she just had a 75-year-old sign up for lessons.

For anyone interested in lessons for themselves or their child, you can submit a contact form at MusicalityStudio.com.

Duckworth also encourages parents to schedule a time to bring their child by and let them look around and gauge their interest in taking lessons.

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