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title: "Founder of DEA Music & Art Was Inspired by Her Albanian Roots"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/4546439e-728a-481d-9736-60d2ce9149cf
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/founder-of-dea-music-art-was-inspired-by-her-albanian-roots-2714846
category: "General"
published: 2021-01-27T00:19:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:25:33.402Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/1c07e786760940fe77c86ee2b7d09e0d254.jpg
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# Founder of DEA Music & Art Was Inspired by Her Albanian Roots

**TL;DR:** Magi Kapllani, founder of DEA Music & Art, is opening a music school franchise in the greater New York area, inspired by her Albanian roots and her parents' legacy. Her parents, classically trained musicians, established a music and arts center in Albania despite lack of government funding.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2021-01-27. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/founder-of-dea-music-art-was-inspired-by-her-albanian-roots-2714846).*

## Story

Now, the founder of DEA Music & Art is focusing on ensuring that children across the country have access to music and the arts the same way she did while growing up in Albania. Kapllani has committed to continuing the legacy of her parents, who we’re both classically trained musicians, by opening her own music school franchise in the greater New York area.

“My parents have accomplished in my country what governments would not do — establishing a music and arts and cultural center,” Kapllani told Franchise Times of her parents’ Dizdari Educational Academy Center of the Arts. “They offered numerous activities for the community when there was nothing like it in the region. The government put no money into the arts, so my parents took their whole life savings and passion and provided to a community that otherwise would have nothing, a little light in the dark.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- franchise expansion (topic)
- General (sector)
- new york (location)
- music education (topic)
- family legacy (topic)
- Albania (location)
- cultural center (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/founder-of-dea-music-art-was-inspired-by-her-albanian-roots-2714846). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/4546439e-728a-481d-9736-60d2ce9149cf).