Music can change people's lives. That's what Jose Antonio Abreu believes. And he proved it with El Sistema, the music program that has transformed the lives of children all over Venezuela and in more that 25 countries around the world. Children from streets dominated by the gun battles of gang warfare are taken into music schools, given access to music, and taught how to build a better society.

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