Justin Timberlake Teams Up with American Music Conference To Promote Music Education

		JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE TEAMS UP WITH AMERICAN MUSIC CONFERENCE Recording artist Justin Timberlake is kicking off a partnership with the American Music Conference (www.amc-music.org), a national non-profit educational association, to get people involved in promoting music education. He has created The Justin Timberlake Foundation in support of this goal and is scheduled to make a telephone appearance on MTV's "Total Request Live" on Wednesday, June 12. (PRNewsFoto)[JL] NEW YORK, NY USA

NEW YORK, June 11 /PRNewswire/ -- Recording artist Justin Timberlake has joined with the American Music Conference to champion the cause of music education for every student. (Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20020611/NYTU140 ) The partnership will kick off Wednesday, June 12 when Timberlake, who created The Justin Timberlake Foundation to promote this goal, is scheduled to make a special phone appearance on MTV's Total Request Live to encourage viewers to get involved in music education. He will direct them to AMC's web site, http://www.amc-music.org, to learn more about the issue and to sign an online teen petition by June 30 and/or write their Congressional representatives. Timberlake recognizes the important role that youth can play in the political process, and is confident that their voices will be heard as a result of this campaign. "Everyone knows how important music is to me, but this issue goes beyond performing and recording," Timberlake says. "This is about an opportunity that every young person should enjoy, no matter what career they aspire to. I want to do everything I can to make sure other people can benefit from music education." "Justin is a wonderful spokesman for the cause of music education," says AMC Executive Director Joe Lamond. "Today's young people will determine where we stand in the years ahead. Will music be a core subject, or will it be left behind? When we talk about the things music can do to enhance one's life, there's no better example than Justin, and he brings a terrific outlook to the work we're going to do together." The mission of The Justin Timberlake Foundation is to promote music education as essential to a child's development. "The Foundation is excited to play a role in encouraging people to become advocates on behalf of this important cause," says executive director Nina Biggar. For more information on the Foundation, contact Biggar at (646) 437-3632. The American Music Conference is dedicated to promoting the importance of music, music making, and music education to the general public. For more information about AMC and this new partnership, visit http://www.amc-music.org.