The school has been training young musicians from the are since 1994, and it's been doing it for free. "My musical work began here as a student with carlinhos," say jair rezende. He lost both his parents as a boy and say carlinhos was like a second father to him. Jair is now a teacher himself, and he's been working at pracatum music school for many years. "We've been helping kids to stay away from drugs and violence and to get good grades in school.