Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith is gifting a need-based music scholarship to the University of Michigan. The 64-year ...

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

Chad Smith, center, drummer of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, poses for a photo during an event promoting the Chad Smith Foundation’s new scholarship at the Graduate by Hilton Hotel at the University of ...

MINNEAPOLIS — There are many inspirations in music that young artists look to. It's not often that you actually meet them, though. At the University of Minnesota, that inspiration wasn't just on ...

Chad Smith, the Grammy award-winning drummer and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member of the Red Hot Chili Peppers, was born in Minnesota. His parents are also graduates from the University of Minnesota.

Chad Smith has played drums with the Red Hot Chili Peppers since 1988. He's now in his 60s, but even after decades of ...