Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is gifting a need-based music scholarship to the University of Michigan. The 64-year-old grew up in Detroit's suburbs.

Chad Smith has played drums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. He’s now in his 60s, but even after decades of drumming, Smith continues to tirelessly hit the kit. “I’ve talked to some other ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith, raised in metro Detroit, teamed up with the Michigan Marching Band while announcing a music scholarship.

The Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer, who was raised in Bloomfield Hills, is naming the scholarship after his parents.

The Curtis and Joan Smith Scholarship will honor his parents while also providing need-based support for incoming music students to the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre and Dance.

It’s not in Chad Smith’s nature to simply make an announcement, introducing a new music scholarship at the University of ...

Chad Smith, drummer of Red Hot Chili Peppers, announced his charity the Chad Smith Foundation and the UM School of Music, Theatre & Dance will provide need-based financial support for an incoming ...

Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is gifting a need-based music scholarship to the University of Michigan. (AP video: ...

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Chad Smith, center, performs with the University of Michigan Marching Band at Hill Auditorium in Ann Arbor, Michigan, on Nov. 2, 2025.