Discussion: Which musicians are the most educated

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This time we decided to once again return to the topic of education and picked up a couple of interesting answers that once again underline the diverse nature of the creative person.
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So let's go. The first answer from Abhinav Lakshminarayan ( Abhinav Lakshminarayan ):

Roger Waters, bassist and backing vocalist for Pink Floyd, studied architecture at the University of Westminster. There he met the future founders of the group, Nick Mason and Richard Wright.

Also worth mentioning is John Petrucci, lead guitarist from Dream Theater and Liquid Tension Experiment. Petrucci studied at the Berkeley College of Music in Boston with his childhood friend John Mayang (bass player).

There they met Mike Portnoy (drummer). This trinity, joined by Kevin Moore (keyboard player), founded the group Majesty, later renamed Dream Theater.

Continues Lawrence Gimenez :

As an example, I can give Greg Graffin from the legendary punk rock band Bad Religion.

He has a master 's degree in geology and a doctoral degree in zoology . He teaches at Cornell University, USA, where he is known as a "punk rock professor."

Mitul Kanji:

The vocalist for The Offspring, Dexter Holland, has bachelor's degrees in biology and a master's in molecular biology from the University of Southern California.

At the same university, Dexter became a candidate of science, but eventually abandoned his research, devoting himself to the group.

Sofia Noori:

Another example is Denny Zeitlin (born April 10, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois) - an American jazz pianist and composer, professor in the department of psychiatry at the University of California, San Francisco.

He recorded more than 30 albums, which include more than one hundred original works, and won first place in the International rating of jazz critics of the magazine “Down Beat” in 1965 and 1974.

Zeitlin studied at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins University, and also completed an internship in psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco.

He is one of the most outstanding living jazz pianists.

Rishabh Goel :

A good example is Brian May, Queen guitarist and songwriter. May studied physics and mathematics at Imperial College London and graduated with a bachelor's degree and an ARCS in physics, having earned the Upper Second-Class level.

Then he continued his studies there, at Imperial College, at the Department of Physics and Mathematics, in order to obtain a doctorate degree. May almost completed his doctoral program to study the reflection of light from cosmic dust and the speed of dust in the solar system, but abandoned it when the Queen group began to gain popularity.

However, he later co-authored two scientific articles and co-authored the book The Big Bang! The Complete History of the Universe ”, which was published in October 2006.

In October 2007, 30 years after the start of his research, he completed his doctoral dissertation on the topic “Studying the radial velocity of cosmic dust,” passed the hearing and made the necessary edits.

May officially graduated from the university on May 14, 2008, when the graduation ceremony and awards were held at the Albert Hall. November 17, 2007 he was appointed rector of the Liverpool University. John Moors, taking the place of Cherie Blair.

May took up his duties in 2008.