Monroe Dispatch - No Struggle, No Progress

By Eddie D. Gillis

Langston Malone is a young man who loves music. It all started hearing his mother sing in a choir that she formed called "We sing for Christ" when he was around six years old. Malone says that when he was nine years old, his mother had him take piano lessons from a well known teacher in the area. Malone said that he took lessons for about 5 months, learning the "fundamentals" of playing the piano. He must have become hooked on playing the piano, because by the age of 11, he said that he basically "self-taught" himself further on the piano and that he could play music by...