Vocal teacher Breona “Jukebox” Brogan wins the 2026 Music Matters Challenge and will help select a school for major music education support.
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Huntsville vocal teacher Breona “Jukebox” Brogan has turned her love for music into a national victory.
Brogan, a vocal teacher at Mason Music in Madison, which offers private music lessons for preschoolers, kids, and adults across North Alabama, won the individual category of the 2026 Music Matters Challenge on May 22, earning a $10,000 prize and the opportunity to help select a school for major music education support.
The challenge is run by Let Music Fill My World, a Chicago-based nonprofit co-founded by GRAMMY-nominated singer-songwriter John Ondrasik of Five for Fighting and Cayley Tull of the Tullman Family Office. Contestants recorded their own version of “Let Music Fill My World” and shared how music shaped their lives.
Brogan, who graduated cum laude with a degree in psychology and minors in neuroscience, discovered the contest on Instagram just five days before the deadline. Brogan is also a member of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Inc., a historically African American sorority known for public service and sisterhood. She wrote original verses, adjusted the chorus to make it personal, recorded in Mason Music’s Nashville studio, and filmed her submission at Big Spring Park.
The prize money will help pay tuition as Brogan pursues a master’s degree in clinical mental health counseling at the University of West Alabama. She also plans to upgrade studio equipment she has owned since age 13.
Beyond her own win, Brogan will help choose a school to receive up to $300,000 in salary support for a full-time music teacher and a $25,000 grant for its music program.
For Brogan, the win became bigger than the competition. It became a message to her students that music can open doors.