Marty Angelo

Marty Angelo worked in the entertainment business from 1965 to 1980 as a television producer (Disco Step-by-Step), record promoter, restaurant/nightclub owner and personal manager for rock 'n' roll bands (Raven and Rob Grill and The Grass Roots).
After a drug arrest in 1980 for cocaine possession, he served two years of a six-year federal prison sentence, and in prison began a ministry, Marty Angelo Ministries. Upon his early release from prison in 1984, Angelo went on to work with various ministries such as, Faith Farm in southern Florida, Teen Challenge of Southern California, Prison Fellowship, and the Drug Abuse Foundation of Palm Beach County. Angelo is also the author of ten books.
Marty Angelo’s Once Life Matters Ministries, Inc. reached out to prisons/jails, rehabs, college campuses, troubled celebrities, politicians and to members of the military from 1981-2018.
Angelo officially retired in September of 2018.


Kent Alterman

Kent Alterman is an American film director and producer. He made his directorial debut in 2008 with "Semi-Pro" starring Will Ferrell.
Early life and Career.
Alterman graduated in 1981 from the University of Oregon. He currently serves as president of Comedy Central.


Richard Gilbert Abramson

Richard Gilbert Abramson is a film producer.


Josh Appelbaum

Josh Appelbaum is an American television writer, screenwriter, showrunner and producer.
Biography.
Appelbaum is from a Jewish family. He attended the Riverdale Country School with longtime writing and producing partner André Nemec. He then went on to attend New York University's Tisch School for the Arts.
Appelbaum has written for shows such as "Life on Mars", "October Road", and the series "Happy Town". He has also been a co-producer and screenwriter for such films as ".
He frequently collaborates with a tightly knit group of film professionals which include J. J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof, Adam Horowitz, Alex Kurtzman, Roberto Orci, Edward Kitsis, Andre Nemec, Jeff Pinkner, and Bryan Burk.


Dylan Berry

Dylan R. Berry (born October 30, 1974) Is an Aria Award nominated, Hollywood Music in Media Award and Mark Award winning Music Producer, Creative Director, serial Entrepreneur and entertainment industry investor. Berry has managed, published and produced media music for television shows including the Academy Awards, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Scream Queens and the MTV Music Awards. He has created branded music for over major networks including Starz, Time Warner Sportsnet, Time Warner News Network, Root Sports Network, ESPN Sports Center and all 10 of the Encore Network stations, for which Berry won a Hollywood Music in Media Award. Berry has also composed and coordinated music for the Oscars, Spike Awards, Victoria Secret Fashion Shows, among others.
Career.
Hollowstone Music.
From 2001 to 2009, Berry was President and Owner of Hollowstone Music, where he composed music for television channels such as History and National Geographic. Under Hollowstone Music, Dylan wrote over 100 hours of music alongside his business partner, Noah Lifschey. The company was later sold in 2009.
Levels Music Group.
Following Hollowstone Music, Dylan launched Levels Music Group, a partnership with Levels Audio, where he composed music for television and award shows including The Academy Awards, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, The Sing-Off, Surviving the Cut, Downfall, the Comedy Central Roast Series, The MTV Music Awards and many others.
Smash Haus Music Group.
Dylan Berry is listed in the top 1% "most prolific" composers in media music on IMDb and has composed music for 30+ TV Networks including Time Warner Sportsnet, Time Warner News, Encore, Starz, ESPN Sportscenter and more.
Berry currently owns and operates Smash Haus Music Group, a company which deploys proprietary technologies throughout the media industry providing original music at scale for media production companies for use in media, television and branded content.
He is credited with providing music for television shows and specials including Academy Awards, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance Here Comes Honey Boo Boo America's Got Talent, Amish Mafia, Kevin Hart's , The Sing Off and America's Best Dance Crew, among others.
Record Production Work.
Berry is an Aria Nominated, Mark Award and Hollywood Music in Media Award-winning record producer.
Currently a member of the trip hop, dub revival group Frivolous Drivel with Greco Rossetti.
Former partner and founder of the production team, The Filthy Fidgets with business partner and co-producer Stefan Litrownik. Together the team is credited with producing for notable acts such as Imagine Dragons, One Direction, Andy Grammer, The Living End, Verdine White of Earth, Wind & Fire, Emblem3 and Billy Ray Cyrus.
Bompop Media.
Bompop Media is a media production company in Hollywood, California that produces high-impact, celebrity and industry-based, behind-the scenes-media for TV, web and radio. Bompop Media syndicates this content globally through a network of strategic partners in the social and content creator space.
Berry is the host and founder of Bompop Media, which broadcasts BompopTV & Bompopradio a weekly influencer and industry-related talk show that features celebrity talent, supports emerging talent while exploring the roots to realities of working in Hollywood and the Entertainment industry. Bompopradio is a partnership with collaborator, TV personality and notable influencer DJ Skee, who was voted by Forbes and Rolling Stone Magazine as one of the most influential tastemakers in music and media.
In early 2016, Bompopradio transitioned to BompopTV, an audiovisual web series which explores the depths and realities of leading creators, personalities and tastemakers in music and entertainment. Later that year, Berry was awarded 3 YouTube Silver play buttons.
Dylan hosted 2016 and 2017 Hollywood Music in Media Awards of which he had one two years earlier for his work on Encore Network Theme Packages.
SoundCloud.
In March 2020, BompopTV was acquired by SoundCloud. Following the acquisition, Dylan was made the program director for Dash Radio's 'SoundCloud Radio', a 24/7 music station catering to 240mm music makers worldwide. He is currently the host of the 'Emerging Artist Hour' which airs every Friday at 12PM PST / 3PM EST on SoundCloud Radio.


Tom Rothman

Thomas Edgar Rothman (born November 21, 1954) is an American film executive and current chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group. In this role, Rothman oversees all of the studio's motion picture production and distribution activities worldwide, including Columbia Pictures, TriStar Pictures, Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Imageworks, Sony Pictures Animation, and Sony Pictures Classics. Rothman joined Sony Pictures in late-2013 as chairman of TriStar Productions and in 2015 was promoted to Chairman of Sony Pictures Motion Picture Group, followed by the release in 2017 and 2018 of titles such as "Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle," "Venom," "Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation," "Peter Rabbit," and "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse". Previously, he was chairman and chief executive officer of Fox Filmed Entertainment with Jim Gianopulos until his resignation on September 14, 2012, effective January 1, 2013. Rothman began at Fox in 1994 as the founder and President of Fox Searchlight Pictures and served the company for 18 years.
During Rothman's tenure, Fox films were nominated for over 150 Oscars and won three Best Picture Awards. The company also earned over $30 billion in the box office and made the then two highest-grossing films, "Titanic" and "Avatar". Rothman also hosted Fox Legacy, a television series in which he provided background and behind-the-scenes information regarding the making of films.
Early life and education.
Rothman was born in to a Jewish family in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1972, he graduated from the Park School of Baltimore prior to entering college. Rothman graduated from Brown University with Honors in English and American Literature, magna cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and was an All New England selection in Division 1 Lacrosse.
In 1977, he worked as an English Teacher at the Salisbury School in Connecticut and coached varsity soccer. He graduated from Columbia Law School in 1980 as a James Kent Scholar, the school's highest academic honor. In 1981, he served on The United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit as a law clerk for the Honorable Walter Mansfield. From 1982 to 1986, he worked as an attorney at Frankfurt Kurnit Klein & Selz.
Philanthropy.
Rothman is active in the nonprofit arts and education arenas. In December 2013, President Obama nominated Rothman to serve on the 18-member National Council on the Arts. The Council advises on the National Endowment for the Arts's policies and programs and makes recommendations on grant applications. He is a member of the Board of the Corporation of Brown University, where he serves on the Academic Affairs Committee. He has worked as a teacher and fundraiser for Mentor L.A. Partner Schools. Rothman is an emeritus member of the board of directors of the Sundance Institute, which he served for 20 years, and
the American Film Institute, a top film graduate school. Tom Rothman has been involved in fundraising activities for The Jewish Home for the Aging, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, and the American Jewish Committee. He serves on the board of New York's Art Therapy Outreach Center (ATOC), an organization that uses art therapy to help at risk groups. He serves on the board of trustees for California Institute of the Arts.
Personal life.
Rothman is married to actress, singer, and author Jessica Harper. The couple have two daughters. Rothman is the brother of actor John Rothman.


Greg Kuehn

Gregory Russell Kuehn is an American composer, songwriter, musician and producer.
Career.
As a performing musician.
Kuehn's career began in Orange County's early punk scene, when he left his classical piano studies at California State University, Long Beach to join horror punk icons T.S.O.L. Together they made the album "Beneath the Shadows", still a highly regarded and influential work.
Following his tenure in T.S.O.L. , he spent several years as a recording and touring musician working with artists including Bob Dylan, The Church, Duane Peters, Megan Mullally, Berlin and Ian Astbury of The Cult. Most recently, Kuehn has been performing with LA punk legends X, filling in for the late Ray Manzarek of The Doors.
Composing film scores.
Kuehn got his start in film working on the score for cult classic "Repo Man", on which he arranged music and played keyboards. Since then, Kuehn has scored numerous films, including "Confessions of a Superhero" and "Meet the Hitlers", both directed by Matt Ogens and produced by film maker Morgan Spurlock, "A Small Section of the World", directed by Lesley Chilcott, and "The Achievers", "The Story of The Lebowski Fans". One of his songs was featured in the documentary "The Other F Word", directed by Andrea Nivens. He worked with producer Peter Jackson scoring the trailer for the Amy Berg directed doc, "West of Memphis", and has completed the score for "Go North" a new feature film directed by Matt Ogens, and starring Jacob Lofland, Sophie Kennedy Clark and Patrick Schwarzenegger. Kuehn composed the music for "Shooting An Elephant", a narrative short film featured in the 2016 Tribeca film festival, directed by JP Rothie and written by Alec Sokolow. "Code Blue", a short film Kuehn scored based on the T.S.O.L. song and the Jack Grisham short story, was featured in the 2016 Cannes Film Festival Court Metrage (Short Film Corner).
Television and commercial work.
Kuehn has composed the music for CNN Heroes, Stand Up 2 Cancer, Give it up For Greg Giraldo and The Daytime Emmys.
Kuehn has scored hundreds of television commercials for clients including Toyota, Ancestry, HP, Subaru, MINI, Hyundai, Honda, Blue Shield, Nike, Adidas, DirecTV, Miller, Gatorade and Petco among many others. His company, Peligro Music and Sound is one of Los Angeles' most sought after boutique music houses.
Personal life.
Kuehn's sons Elvis and Max Kuehn are both members of LA band FIDLAR. Greg lives in Los Angeles, CA.


Gary Goetzman

Gary Goetzman (born November 6, 1952) is an American film and television producer, and co-founder of the production company Playtone with actor Tom Hanks.
Life and career.
Born in Los Angeles, Gary began his career as a child actor.
In 1984, he produced the Talking Heads concert film "Stop Making Sense" with director Jonathan Demme. That initiated a successful run as a music supervisor, on such films as "Something Wild", "Colors", "Modern Girls" and "Married to the Mob", among many others. In 1991, producer Gary and director Demme again collaborated to make "The Silence of the Lambs", which garnered the top five Academy Awards including Best Picture.
In 1993, Gary was executive producer of Demme's "Philadelphia", starring Tom Hanks, beginning a working relationship with Hanks. Gary co-produced Hanks's 1996 directorial debut, "That Thing You Do!". The two then co-founded Playtone in 1998. Since then, Gary has produced hit films including "My Big Fat Greek Wedding", "The Polar Express", "Charlie Wilson's War" and "Mamma Mia!". Gary has also received several Emmy Awards for HBO mini-series "Band of Brothers", "The Pacific", "John Adams", "Game Change" and "Olive Kitteridge".
Aside from producing films, Gary has been known to play small parts in movies he is connected to.
He has also enjoyed a successful parallel career as a music composer and producer, working with such artists as Smokey Robinson, Natalie Cole, Jane Child, Thelma Houston, and The Staples Singers.
He currently sits on the National board of directors for the Producers Guild of America.
Gary is executive producer (with Tom Hanks and Mark Herzog) of the CNN exclusive documentary miniseries "The Sixties" (2014), "The Seventies" (2015) and "The Eighties" (2016).
Filmography.
He was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.


Chuck Bowman

Charles W. Bowman (born June 2, 1937) is an American actor, director, producer and writer of film and television.
Career.
Bowman's career has spanned over forty years working in television directing episodes of "The Incredible Hulk", "The Greatest American Hero", "The A-Team", "T. J. Hooker", "MacGyver", "In the Heat of the Night", "They Came from Outer Space", "Murder, She Wrote", "Swamp Thing: The Series", "Touched by an Angel", "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", "The Pretender", "Walker Texas Ranger" and "Castle" as well as number of television and theatrical feature films, including the Stephen J. Cannell production of "The Tooth Fairy".
As an actor, he appeared numerous times on "Dragnet" and "Adam-12", playing a different character in each episode as well as appearing in episodes of "The Rockford Files", "Hardcastle and McCormick" and most recently "Day Break".
Personal life.
He is the father of film and television director Rob Bowman. He now lives in Los Angeles with his wife Lisa.
He is an alum of Los Angeles City College.


Frank Price

Frank Price (born May 17, 1930) is a television writer and executive during the 1950s to 1970s, and a Hollywood studio chief in the 1980s. He held a number of executive positions including head of Universal TV in the 1970s; President, and later Chairman and CEO, of Columbia Pictures; and president of Universal Pictures. In the 1960s, he is credited with helping to develop the "made-for-TV movie" and the 90-minute miniseries television formats, including "The Virginian" (1962–1970).
As studio president, Price oversaw the production of and/or greenlit famous films of the 1980s including "Out of Africa" which won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1985, as well as "Tootsie" (1982), "Gandhi" (1982) and "The Karate Kid" (1984). He greenlit "Howard the Duck" (1986) which became one of the worst flops in film history, causing him to resign from Universal. Price saved from obscurity the script for "Back to the Future" (1985), and made the decision to film other long shots that became blockbusters like "Boyz n the Hood" (1991) and "Ghostbusters" (1984). As of 1990, he was responsible for turning out 9 of the top 10 grossing films in Columbia's history.
Early life.
Frank Price was born to William F. Price and Winnifred A. (Moran) Price on May 17, 1930, in Decatur, Illinois. During the Great Depression, his father moved continually in search of work; prior to college Price lived in eight cities around the country. He attended three years of high school in Flint, Michigan, and spent five years in Glendale, California, where his mother worked as a waitress in the cafeteria of Warner Brothers, exposing the young Price to a film studio and actors. He still has photographs of Errol Flynn, Humphrey Bogart, Olivia de Havilland and James Cagney inscribed "To Frankie".
Price served about one year in the U. S. Navy from 1948–1949, then attended three years of college at Michigan State University from 1949–1951 before transferring to Columbia University on the strength of his writing talent. In New York he dropped out of university to work full-time as a reader in the CBS-TV Story Department.
Career.
Television (1951–1978).
Price was story editor and writer for CBS-TV in New York from 1951 to 1953 where he worked on series such as "Westinghouse Studio One", "Suspense" and "The Web". He moved to Los Angeles where he was story editor at Columbia Pictures from 1953 to 1957, working on shows like "Ford Theater", "Father Knows Best", "Damon Runyon Theater", "Playhouse 90" and "Circus Boy". In 1957, he was story editor of NBC's Emmy-award winning "Matinee Theater". In 1958–1959 he worked for Ziv Television Programs including on the western "The Rough Riders".
In 1959, Price joined Universal TV (then Revue Productions) as associate producer and writer where he was mentored by Sid Sheinberg and Lew Wasserman. In 1961, he made the transition from artist to studio executive when he was named vice president of Universal TV, and in 1971 senior vice president. The same year, he was named president and head of Universal TV and vice president, MCA, Inc. During his time at Universal he is credited with helping to develop new television formats the "made-for-TV movie" and the miniseries. He was executive producer of the TV series, "The Virginian" (1962–70), TV's first 90-minute Western series. Price said ""The Virginian" played a formative role in my life. I got on-the-job experience running a high-profile show business enterprise, learning to coordinate business and creative endeavors." In 1966, he produced one of the first movies made for television, "The Doomsday Flight". Other shows he developed or supervised included "The Six Million Dollar Man", "Battlestar Galactica", "The Rockford Files", "Kojak" and "Columbo".
Columbia Pictures (1978–1983).
In 1978, after a 19-year career in television, Price left Universal to become president of Columbia Pictures. "When I left Universal, I didn't know if I could ever become president of Columbia," he once said, "but I didn't want to wake up at the age of 65 and not have taken that chance to run a movie studio." Over the next 5 years, Price greenlit a string of risky but highly successful films including "Kramer vs. Kramer" (1979), "Tootsie" (1982), "Gandhi" (1982), and "The Karate Kid" (1984). For "Ghostbusters" (1984), "The wisdom in town was that I had made a terrible mistake," Price said, "When the film came on, the reaction was horrible. A studio executive came up and put his arm around me and said, 'Don't worry: we all make mistakes.' I was nauseous ... [but] when the movie came out, it just exploded."
During his reign, the studio put Steven Spielberg's proposed follow up to "Close Encounters of the Third Kind", "Night Skies", into turnaround. The project eventually became the highest-grossing film of all-time, "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial". Columbia received a share of the profits for its involvement in the development.
After Columbia was purchased by The Coca-Cola Company in January 1982, Price lost out in a power struggle with Francis T. Vincent, chairman of Columbia Pictures Industries, over how to position Columbia in the new pay-cable TV market. In October 1983, Price resigned from Columbia. In hindsight Columbia would regret the decision – in 1990, Alan J. Levine, then President of Columbia, noted during Price's tenure he was responsible for turning out 9 of the top 10 grossing films in Columbia's history.
Universal Pictures (1983–1986).
In November 1983, Price became chairman of the MCA Motion Picture Group, which included control of the production and distribution of Universal Pictures. He is credited with saving the script for "Back to the Future" (1985) from obscurity allowing the film to be completed. He greenlit "Out of Africa" which won the best-picture Oscar in 1985. However in September 1986, Price quit Universal in fallout over the notorious flop of "Howard the Duck". In 2014, the "Los Angeles Times" listed "Howard the Duck" as one of the costliest box-office flops of all time. "A duck brought Price down," lamented one producer.
Of his time at Universal, one industry insider said "Price had full carte blanche to put anything into the works at whatever cost. Frank did what he did at Columbia: He bought the big talent. In effect, he was spending a lot of money in an attempt to play it safe."
Columbia Pictures (1990–1991) and independent.
In 1987, Price formed his own studio Price Entertainment. In 1990, after Sony purchased Columbia Pictures, Price was approached to return to Columbia and after a series of short negotiations he was appointed chairman of Columbia Pictures. His company Price Entertainment, Inc. was merged with Columbia in March 1991 with the agreement it would turn out two films a year, produced by Price but without being credited to him.
During his time at Columbia he greenlit "Boyz n the Hood" (1991), "The Prince of Tides" (1991), "Bram Stoker's Dracula" (1992) and "Groundhog Day" (1993). On being a studio chief, Price considered it one of the world's great jobs:
... the best part of the job was the ability to buy the best – directors, scripts, talent. The worst was spending your day saying 'no' – telling people you don't share their dreams. You're making subjective decisions in a very amorphous realm ... and have to wait 18 to 24 months before you know if you guessed right. Anyone who complains about the stresses is a fool. The pay and the perks are good. You have fun lunches with Streisand and Redford. And it's sort of like being head of a small country. Though I rarely used the plane, I was met at the airport and commanded a certain amount of deference. Things go your way – period.
Price left Columbia on October 4, 1991, at which time Price Entertainment was re-activated and continued an association with Sony Pictures Entertainment with a non-exclusive production deal. Price Entertainment continued making pictures until 2001 including "Shadowlands" (1993), "Circle of Friends" (1995) and "The Tuskegee Airmen" (1995).
Other work.
Price was Chairman of the Board of Councilors for the USC School of Cinema-Television where he assembled a board that including Steven Spielberg, George Lucas, Robert Zemeckis, David Geffen, among others. Price said the board helps with the school's teaching mission and fund raising, and "it takes an amount of time trying to make sure that's a top school," he said. "And I think it is." Price was also on the Board of Trustees of the University of Southern California.
Industry reflections.
Price came from the artistic side of the industry starting out as a script writer. He considered this an advantage later when deciding to make a film, saying "Unwilling to base my decisions on other people's perceptions, I spent a lot of my time reading [scripts]. From what I understand, however, that's the exception rather than the rule." Price was also a serious reader, after his 1987 departure from Universal he devoured books ranging from "Das Kapital" to Adam Smith's "The Wealth of Nations". Price worked on a novel of his own (never published), he said it was "my version of "The Last Tycoon"", an unfinished novel by F. Scott Fitzgerald about the life of a Hollywood studio manager. "I know that world better than F. Scott Fitzgerald," Price said. "This is a business like no other. Though there may not be any more politics and infighting in Hollywood than elsewhere, the stakes are so much higher. One bad casting decision can ruin a picture."
Personal.
Price married Katherine Crawford on May 15, 1965, an actress known for "Riding with Death" (1976), "A Walk in the Spring Rain" (1970) and "Gemini Man" (1976). Her father was Roy Huggins, who created and produced TV shows like "The Fugitive", "The Rockford Files" and "Maverick". Frank and Katherine had four sons including Roy Price ( 1967) the former president of Amazon.com's media development division, Amazon Studios; David Price, a director of films such as ""; Frank Price Jr. and Stephen Price.


Carol Baum

Carol Baum is an American movie producer best known for her work with Sandollar Productions, Dolly Parton's TV and film production company with Sandy Gallin, Parton's former manager. She is a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. She currently teaches producing at the USC School of Cinematic Arts, and formally taught a similar class at the American Film Institute (AFI). She also serves as a mentor for the The Peter Stark Producing Program at USC.
Awards.
In 1989, the documentary won an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
Also in 1989, "Tidy Endings" won a CableACE Award for Dramatic or Theatrical Special.
In 1997, Fly Away Home won a Christopher Award, a Genesis Award for Best Feature Film, and the Critic's Choice Award for Best Family Film at the Broadcast Film Critics Association Awards. In addition, Caleb Deschanel was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the film.
In 2015, Zapped won a Leo Award for Best Television Movie.
Personal life.
Baum is of Jewish descent and was born in New York. She is the wife of writer Tom Baum and mother to Will Baum and writer Henry Baum and has three grandchildren. She lives in Los Angeles.


Skip Drinkwater

Skip Drinkwater is an American record producer. He is best known for working with jazz artists, Norman Connors, Alphonse Mouzon and Eddie Henderson, as well as discovering the Catalyst and working with the all black heavy metal band Sound Barrier.


James Belfer

James Belfer is an American independent film producer and financier. He is a co-founder and CEO of Cartuna, founder and CEO of Dogfish Pictures, and the founder and managing director of Dogfish Accelerator.
Early life.
Belfer grew up on Long Island, New York. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Northwestern University in 2009. That year, Belfer founded Dogfish Pictures to finance and produce several feature films per year. He attended NYU Stern in 2011 to receive his MBA in Entrepreneurship and Innovation, Digital Marketing, and Business Analytics. He was also an Associate for the 2012 Boulder Class of TechStars and an investor in the MESA+ venture fund. In 2012, he created Dogfish Accelerator, the first accelerator program for independent film producers. He currently resides in New York City.
Film career.
Belfer has produced and financed several films, including "The Romantics" (co-producer), "Salvation Boulevard" (co-producer), "Like Crazy" (associate producer), "Vamps" (co-executive producer), "Compliance" (executive producer), and "Prince Avalanche" (producer). He is currently an adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, teaching strategies for independent filmmaking to undergraduates in Film & Television. In 2015 Belfer alongside Daniel Shepard co-founded Cartuna.
Festivals.
Belfer's films have participated in the Sundance Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival, Berlin International Film Festival, South by Southwest, Locarno International Film Festival, BAMcinemaFest, Seattle International Film Festival, San Francisco International Film Festival, and Stockholm International Film Festival. In 2011, Belfer's film "Like Crazy" won the Grand Jury Prize: Dramatic at the Sundance Film Festival. In 2013, Belfer’s film Prince Avalanche premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and won the 2013 Berlinale Silver Bear Award for Best Director.
Honors.
In 2012, Belfer was named "Ten Producers To Keep Watching" by "Deadline Hollywood".


Chris Goss

Christopher Ryan Goss (born August 17, 1958) is an American record producer and musician. Best known for producing records for Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age, he is regarded as an important figure in the development of stoner rock and desert rock genres. Goss is also the lead singer and guitarist of the hard rock band Masters of Reality.
Recording career.
As well as being the founding (and only constant) member of influential desert rock outfit Masters of Reality, Goss is also well known for his production work on albums by Kyuss and Queens of the Stone Age. Largely credited as the "Godfather of desert rock", Goss has on several occasions played down the importance of his role in this musical movement. In 1999, he stated, "I can't make any claim at all to inventing desert rock, or stoner rock, or whatever you want to call it. I make rock n roll records, and hopefully try to make the listener feel like I did when I heard my favourite music."
In 2004, Goss highlighted exactly what kind of music he created, "There's a bunch of weirdos that I work with all the time, and we make what I call 'out of whack' Rock records. That's what I do. When people want an 'out of whack' weird Rock record, they call me, and I take an 'out of whack' amount of money to do it, and I'm glad to be there. It's cool."
In late 2004, Goss had to be hospitalized due to severe internal infection and the European leg of his tour in support of the new Masters of Reality album "Give Us Barabbas" had to be postponed indefinitely. After his recuperation, he joined Jeordie White and Zach Hill to release "I Got a Brand New Egg Layin' Machine", a "mini LP" released under the name Goon Moon.
Goss appeared with his longtime friend Josh Homme of Queens of the Stone Age as "" at the "winter edition" of ArthurFest, performing an intimate set which was "crafted in less than a month as the duo was a rather late addition to the Arthurball line-up as Sunday's headliner". Continuing with Goon Moon, Goss, White and Hill released a full-length album in May 2007 entitled "Licker's Last Leg" containing many guest artists synonymous with the desert rock scene.
Goss also joined Queens of the Stone Age and Billy Gibbons to perform "Burn the Witch" on "Late Night with Conan O'Brien".
In 2013, regarding Josh Homme's supposed decision to sequence the album Era Vulgaris using songs originated in a "Los Angeles studio [beginning recording] without a single thing written, just to see what it was like to force songs out of his [and his bandmate's] psyche", Goss was quoted saying: "I've seen him do that before with the Desert Sessions but never with Queens. The Queens Of The Stone Age is a business, where he's the CEO. It's not run the same."
In 2014, filming completed in Las Vegas for "Death in the Desert", a full-length movie for which Goss wrote an original song titled "Only the Lonely", performed by singer Roxy Saint, who plays the character Corey in the full-length film, which is directed and produced by Saint's husband, Josh Evans. It stars Michael Madsen, Shayla Beesley and Paz de la Huerta. The movie is inspired by the book Death in the Desert by Cathy Scott, with the screenplay by John Steppling.
Selected discography.
Throughout his career, Goss has worked with a wide range of musicians in various genres.


Roger Greenawalt

Roger McEvoy Greenawalt is a music producer and musician known for carrying a ukulele at all times everywhere he goes. Greenawalt has worked with Iggy Pop, Rufus Wainwright, Nils Lofgren, The Pierces, Ben Kweller, Ric Ocasek, Branford Marsalis, Joe Strummer, Philip Glass and many others. A story on Greenawalt's discovery of Kweller appeared in the New Yorker on April 7, 1997. Greenawalt is currently focusing on his multimedia project incorporating poetry, music and photography entitled 366 Visions.
Background.
Greenawalt studied at Berklee College of Music in Boston from 1978-1980. In 1980 Greenawalt formed the "Sarcastic Post Punk No Wave Death Disco" band The Dark who, after gaining a loyal East Coast following, drew the interest of Ric Ocasek, lead singer and guitarist of The Cars. Ocasek produced The Dark's second EP, "Darkworld", in 1982. A single, "Judy", became a local hit in Boston.
Over the last 30 years, Greenawalt has produced a wide variety of music, including records by bands such as Nils Lofgren, Ben Kweller, The Pierces, Eve's Plum, Anya Marina, Iggy Pop, Nellie McKay, Julian Velard and Eric Hutchinson. He is particularly known for mentoring young artists as they become mature professionals. Stylistically he is known for his experimental approach to pop music and careful attention to lead vocals. Allison Pierce: "I credit Greenawalt with opening our minds to new possibilities of what our music could and should be."
366 Visions - Origin and Scope.
In October 2010, Greenawalt was diagnosed with laryngeal cancer. He suffered a recurrence in 2013. Despite his successful treatment by Dr Michael Pitman of New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, Greenawalt suffered complications causing him to lose his speaking voice in November 2013. During this period of enforced silence, Greenawalt conceived the idea of 366 Visions.
366 Visions is a multimedia project that combines exactly 140 character Twitter Poetry married to a square Instagram image and original song (often in collaboration with another artist) using the Twitter Poetry as lyrics and inspired by the image. The pieces are released on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays at 4.20pm. 366 Visions is in the final stages of development and will be launched in March 2015: www.366visions.com
Beatles Complete On Ukulele.
On December 8, 2004, Greenawalt first performed his Beatles Complete On Ukulele concert by playing all 185 original Beatles songs in one day on ukulele with 60 guest singers at Elizabeth Streb's SLAM Action Lab in Brooklyn, New York. In 2008, he did the same show again at Brooklyn's Spike Hill. Since then, Greenawalt has performed the marathon show three more times at Brooklyn Bowl and three years running at SXSW in Austin, Texas (2010, 2011). Greenawalt performed an abridged version near San Francisco at The McEvoy Ranch Harvest Festival in November 2010. Performers at these various concerts have included Nellie McKay, The Naked Brothers Band, The Pierces, Adam Green, Ryan Miller of Guster, Jeremiah Birnbaum, and Freedy Johnston. Greenawalt has an accompanying web site Beatles Complete On Ukulele where he is rerecording original Beatles songs on ukulele. He releases a new track periodically with an original essay about the song. See link to site here...


Ozzie Alfonso

Ozzie Alfonso (born August 14, 1945) was the director and one of three Senior Producers of "3-2-1 Contact" from season 2 to 8 when the series stopped production. He was also one of the writers for the series from season 3 through 8. Following production of the daily series, Alfonso was the director of all the "3-2-1 Contact Specials", and "3-2-1 Classroom". His work at "3-2-1 Contact" garnered two Emmy Awards – for cinematography (contributing cinematographer), and for outstanding directing.
Prior to joining "3-2-1 Contact", Alfonso was a contributing director for "Sesame Street" where he started in the series second season as post-production supervisor and video editor. He was nominated for a nighttime Emmy for his directing in "Sesame Street in Puerto Rico". He left Sesame Street in 1979 and returned to the Children's Television Workshop (now known as Sesame Workshop) to work in 3-2-1 Contact. After leaving Sesame Workshop, Alfonso freelanced as director and writer of numerous specials for PBS, Nickelodeon, and NBC.
From 1991 until 2008, Alfonso headed his own video production and consulting company, Terra Associates, now "Ozzie Alfonso Media" and from 2005 to 2019 he was an adjunct professor at St. John's University in Queens, New York where he taught courses on media, television production, and writing. He is still an active director/writer working on selected projects.
Personal life.
Born in Cuba, he came to the US at age 10 when political turmoil in his homeland forced his parents to leave the country. Ozzie followed a few years later accompanied by his grandmother. He lives in New York with his wife, teacher and children book author, Maura Gouck, and son, David.


Ben Rekhi

Ben Rekhi is an American director, producer, and screenwriter. He is known for "Waterborne" (2005), "Fun Size Horror: Volume One" (2015), and "The Ashram" (2018).
Education.
Ben Rekhi graduated from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts, where he directed and produced a number of films, including The Waste Project, which won the Best Actor prize at the First Run Festival, and Dirty Laundry, recipient of Warner Bros. Pictures Postproduction grant.
Rekhi graduated from University of Southern California with a Masters from the Peter Stark Producing Program.
Career.
Rekhi has worked on the set of "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" and shot the behind-the-scenes documentary for "Confessions of a Dangerous Mind". He founded Drops Entertainment and produced his first feature film, "Bomb the System", which was nominated for the 2004 Independent Spirit Award for Best First Feature and distributed by Palm Pictures. His directorial debut, "Waterborne", was the runner-up for the narrative audience prize at the 2005 SXSW Film Festival, and "Car Babes", which he produced, premiered at the Hollywood Film Festival.
Rekhi also served as VP of Acquisitions at Apsara Distribution.  Apsara obtained exclusive Asia distribution rights to Harrison Ford's "Paranoia".
Rekhi directed "The Ashram" (2016) in India, featuring Sam Keeley, Kal Penn, Melissa Leo, and Radhika Apte.
In 2019, he directed "Watch List (Maria)" in Manila, a crime thriller set in the drug underworld during the time of Rodrigo Duterte's extrajudicial killings. The film was nominated for a Jury Prize at the Seattle International Film Festival.


Warren Entner

Warren Entner is an American singer, songwriter, organist and guitarist for the rock and roll band, The Grass Roots. He then became a manager for several successful heavy metal/rock groups.
Overview.
Entner is best known for his vocal contributions on some of The Grass Roots' biggest hits, most notably the memorable "1-2-3-4" count-in to the chorus, as well as lead vocal on the chorus, of Let's Live for Today and the Middle 8 of the song Midnight Confessions.
Entner and his group The Grass Roots played at the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival on Sunday June 11, 1967 in the "summer of love" as their top ten hit "Let's Live For Today" was hitting the airwaves. This music festival is important because it occurred before the Monterey Pop Festival but did not have a movie to document it for the ages (see List of electronic music festivals). On Sunday October 27, 1968 they played at the San Francisco Pop Festival and then played at the Los Angeles Pop Festival and Miami Pop Festival in December of that year as their top ten hit "Midnight Confessions" was hitting the airwaves.
Entner and his group The Grass Roots played at Newport Pop Festival 1969 at Devonshire Downs which was a racetrack at the time but now is part of the North Campus for California State University at Northridge. They played on Sunday June 22 which was the final day of the festival as their top twenty hit "Wait A Million Years" was hitting the airwaves. In Canada, they played at the Vancouver Pop Festival at the Paradise Valley Resort in British Columbia in August 1969 (see List of electronic music festivals).
Entner had the opportunity to network with many famous groups and musicians playing these large festivals. This helped him fine tune his skills as a group manager. It was with The Grass Roots that Entner practiced his first efforts as band manager that he would fine tune to become a professional manager for other groups after 1974. Entner identified several songs written by other composers that proved successful when The Grass Roots covered them. He was instrumental in identifying "Let's Live For Today", "Midnight Confessions" and "Lovin' Things" (written by Artie Schroeck) to name a few.
In 1970, he married the Welsh actress, model and beauty queen, Miss World 1961, Rosemarie Frankland. In 1976, they gave birth to their only child together, a daughter, Jessica. The couple divorced in 1981. In 1986, his second child, Lauren was born from a second marriage on May 25, 1985 to Stacey Elizabeth Babbitt.
Compositions and musical release performance.
Entner composed twenty one songs for The Grass Roots. Two of these appeared as single "A" sides. They are "Feelings" and "Come On And Say It". His other nineteen compositions appeared on single "B" sides and albums. He wrote frequently with Rob Grill and they were considered a songwriting team. Entner played with the group on their first nine albums – seven of which charted. He took part in the first twenty five singles released, twenty of which charted.
Group management.
After departing from The Grass Roots in the mid 70s, Entner went behind the scenes of the music business and became a successful manager. Owning his own firm Warren Entner Management, Entner managed a number of successful hard rock artists including Angel, Quiet Riot, Faith No More, Rage Against the Machine, Deftones, as well as other acts such as The Grays, Failure and Nada Surf. He currently manages Biffy Clyro in the US.
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Black Caviar (duo)

Black Caviar is an electronic music band consisting of Troy Hinson and Jared Piccone. Black Caviar produced "What’s Up Danger", which was featured on the .
History.
2015–2017.
In 2015, Hinson and Piccone started producing music under the name Black Caviar. Before founding Black Caviar, Piccone and Hinson had started their careers playing in Pennsylvania rock bands, which is how they met. Hinson is known for his work on Sirius XM's "Jim Norton & Sam Roberts Show". Piccone was the cofounder and drummer of Innerpartysystem, and later worked as an A&R representative at Casablanca Records.
In 2015, Black Caviar gained popularity with their cover of "Lady (Hear Me Tonight)" by Modjo.
2017–2019.
Black Caviar signed to Casablanca Records in 2017, and released their debut single "Coco" in November. The single peaked at 22 on Billboard's Dance/Mix Show Airplay charts in February 2018. In 2018, a remix of "Coco" by Piccone's former Innerpartysystem bandmate Kris Barman (better known as Wuki) was released.
Black Caviar's "What's Up Danger" was released on November 1, 2018, as the second single from the . The single was a collaboration with rapper Blackway. The Spiderverse soundtrack reached number one on Billboard's Top Soundtracks and number 2 on Billboard 200. Black Caviar released an official dance remix of "What's Up Danger" in February, 2019.
Black Caviar produced several singles in the summer of 2019, including "El Camino", "Alright Alright Okay", "Zonin", and "Do You Like It When I'm Freaky". Black Caviar collaborated with the DJ trio Jaded and London-based duo Antony and Cleopatra for the single "Slippin". The duo hinted at new releases and movie work in a 2019 interview. Black Caviar released an EP titled "Boing/Keep My High" on October 22, 2019. Black Caviar remixed the "Charlie's Angel Theme" for the 2019 soundtrack.
The duo released their second EP, "Moon Landing", on November 22, 2019. On December 6, 2020 the duo released the official cover of Justin Caruso's "Broken Hearts".
2020–present.
In January 2020, Black Caviar self-released their EP "Caviar Chronicles Vol. 1". In June 2020 they released "Stacks On My Feet" on Tchami's record label Confession. Black Caviar collaborated with Norwegian DJ duo KREAM on the single "Jack".
Black Caviar collaborated with Blackway once again on the single "Do The Damn Thing", released November 22, 2020. Black Caviar released three more singles, "Hometown", "Money Money" and "Own My Own Masters" in 2021.
Influences.
Black Caviar's music has been described as producing hip hop influenced dance music, which includes elements of the EDM, house, R&B and Latin genres. In an interview with "EDM Identity", Black Caviar listed The Chemical Brothers, Timbaland Fatboy Slim, and Daft Punk as influences
Discography.
Remixes.
List of official remixes, showing original artists and record label


Ted White (manager)

Theodore Richard White (born March 25, 1931) is an American businessman, songwriter, and producer. White is better known as the manager and first husband of soul singer Aretha Franklin. As a songwriter, White wrote or co-wrote numerous songs for Franklin, including "I Wonder (Where You Are Tonight)", "Lee Cross", "Dr. Feelgood", and "Think".
Life and career.
White was born in Detroit, Michigan, on March 25, 1931. He was described by "Time" magazine in 1968 as "a former dabbler in Detroit real estate and a street-corner wheeler-dealer." He also owned a chain of jukeboxes. White told "Ebony" in 1967 that he was a sandlot promoter before he took over managing the career of singer Aretha Franklin in 1961.
White was introduced to Franklin by singer Della Reese at the Twenty Grand Club in Detroit. After a few weeks of dating, they were married by a justice of the peace while touring Ohio in 1961, when Franklin was 18 and White was 30. Franklin's father C.L. Franklin opposed of the union. Family and friends were skeptical of Franklin's association with White and felt his shady dealings would hurt her career. Motown producer Harvey Fuqua stated: "Anyone who didn't see Ted White as a straight-up pimp had to be deaf, dumb, and blind. . . . It took someone that slick to get a great talent like Aretha in his stable."
In 1964, White formed the record label Ston-Roc and produced the single "Talking About the People" / "Don't Ever Leave Me" by Tony & Tyrone. That year, Franklin recorded "Lee Cross" written by White, but it was released as a single by singer Walter Jackson instead. Franklin's version wasn't released until the album "Take It Like You Give It" in 1967. By that time, Frankllin had parted ways with her first label Columbia Records and White negotiated a deal with Atlantic Records. White and Franklin co-wrote "Dr. Feelgood" and "Don't Let Me Lose This Dream" from her 1967 album "I Never Loved a Man the Way I Love You". Both of which have been covered by various artists. They also co-wrote a few songs from her albums "Lady Soul" (1968) and "Aretha Now" (1968) before their separation.
After White and Franklin separated in 1968, her brother Cecil Franklin took over managing her career. Her divorce from White was finalized in 1969. White was reportedly abusive during their marriage. According to a 1968 "Time" magazine story, White "roughed her up in public at Atlanta's Regency Hyatt House Hotel." Gospel singer Mahalia Jackson told "Time" that wasn't the first incident which White was violent towards Franklin. Additionally, David Ritz, author of the 2014 biography "Respect: The Life of Aretha Franklin", wrote that "ugly physical fights were not unusual" between them.
During their union they had one son together, Ted "Teddy" White Jr., born 1964. After the divorce, Teddy was largely raised by his father's family in Oak Park, Michigan. He spent holidays and weekends with his mother in Detroit. He played guitar for his mother before becoming a singer-songwriter, going by the name Teddy Richards.


L.A. Reid

Antonio Marquis "L.A." Reid (born June 7, 1956) is an American record executive, A&R representative, film producer, businessman, and former drummer, record producer, and songwriter. In 2017, Reid was forced to step down as chairman of Epic Records after multiple allegations of sexual harassment.
He founded and served as co-chairman of Hitco Entertainment. He has served as the chairman and CEO of Epic Records and The Island Def Jam Music Group, the president and CEO of Arista Records.
Reid was the founder and CEO of Hitco Music Publishing and the co-founder of LaFace Records with producing partner Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds. He has won three Grammy Awards, picking up awards as a songwriter for songs such as Boyz II Men's "End of the Road".
As a musician, he joined the Ohio R&B bands Pure Essence in 1973, and The Deele (with future business partner Babyface) in 1981 as a drummer. Reid also has an extended musical career serving as a record producer, programmer, and instrumentalist for various recording artists.
He appeared as a judge on the first two seasons of the U.S. version of the television show "The X Factor", but left the show in December 2012 to focus on his leadership at Epic Records. One of the major projects that Reid embarked on following his stint on "The X Factor", was the remaking of Michael Jackson songs after his death, with the May 13, 2014 release of the album "Xscape". In 2016, Reid published the "New York Times" bestselling memoir "Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next".
Career.
Beginnings.
Reid began his music career as a drummer, with his first appearance on record being with the Cincinnati funk rock outfit Pure Essence. Pure Essence released one solitary 45 in the mid-1970s. They later appeared on local FM rock radio station WEBN's second annual LP compilation, but the group was renamed 'Essence'. Reid would experience more mainstream success when he became a member of the 1980s R&B band The Deele, best known for their 1988 hit "Two Occasions", a song on their third album "Eyes of a Stranger". The band had broken up before the success of the single, then reunited to promote "Two Occasions" as it rose up the charts under Dick Griffey's Solar Records. The song peaked at number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.
1989–2004: LaFace Records and Arista years.
After The Deele disbanded, Reid and bandmate Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds founded LaFace in 1989 through a joint venture with Arista Records, with funding from Arista Records creator Clive Davis. The label soon became one of the premier destinations for popular African-American entertainers who created Black Pop music that was easily accessible to both Urban and Top 40 radio formats. Reid signed 14-year-old Usher to the label, whose six album releases have sold 65 million units worldwide. Other popular acts on the label during its peak include Toni Braxton, TLC, and Outkast. Both TLC and Toni Braxton went on to sell more than 65 million records each. Initially headquartered in Atlanta, the label played a significant role in developing the city's music industry.
Reid formed the Hitco Publishing Group in 1996, as a joint venture with Windswept Music. While starting up Hitco, Reid, looking to connect to a new market of producers, songwriters and talent, hired Shakir Stewart whom he saw as someone with "a finger on the pulse of the next generation of hot producers in the Atlanta music scene". Shakir's first job in the music industry was as a creative executive at Hitco; he went on to become a senior vice president at Island Def Jam Music Group.
In May 2000, Edmonds and Reid sold their remaining 50% stake in LaFace to parent company BMG. The label became an imprint of Arista Records, with Arista taking on sales, marketing, and promotional duties for its acts. At this time, Reid also succeeded his mentor Clive Davis as president of Arista Records.
In 2000, LaFace was merged into Arista Records with Reid being promoted to president and CEO of Arista Records. In 1997 Reid attended the Harvard Business School six-week Advanced Management Program, in preparation to become CEO of Arista Records. In 2000, Reid signed his first unknown artists, Havana Mena Latin/hip hop and pop/rocker Avril Lavigne, to Arista. Avril Lavigne's debut album Let Go sold 6 million copies in the United States. As president of Arista Records, Reid signed artists such as Pink (whose November 2001 album Missundaztood sold 5 million copies in the US) and Ciara (whose September 2004 debut album Goodies sold 3 million copies in the US).
Under Reid's tenure at Arista, Usher (whom Reid originally signed at LaFace) completed production on his multi-platinum hit 2004 album "Confessions", which went on to spawn four No. 1 hit singles and sell 10 million copies in the United States alone. Outkast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" sold more than 10 million copies and won a Grammy Award for Album of the year.
2004–2012: Island Def Jam Music Group and "The X Factor".
Following the merger of Sony and BMG, L.A. Reid was released from his contract at Arista in 2004 and became the chairman and CEO of The Island Def Jam Music Group in February 2004. Reid is noted for bringing Mariah Carey's career back to prominence with her multi-platinum 2005 album "The Emancipation of Mimi" after her career had stalled from 2001 to 2003 with less than stellar sales and general lack of public interest for her two previous projects, "Glitter" and "Charmbracelet".
Reid also played a role in the successes of artists such as Kanye West, Rihanna, Bon Jovi, and Justin Bieber and was credited for the musical comeback of Jennifer Lopez with her 2011 album "Love?". Reid stepped down as Chairman/CEO of Island Def Jam in March 2011.
In early 2011 Reid became a judge on the U.S. version of the British television singing competition "The X Factor", alongside its creator and former "American Idol" judge Simon Cowell, 80s pop star Paula Abdul and former Pussycat Dolls singer Nicole Scherzinger, who replaced British recording artist Cheryl Cole.
Reid was assigned the Boys category throughout the competition, aided by friend and singer Rihanna at the Judges' Houses stage of the competition in The Hamptons. His final four acts were Marcus Canty, Chris Rene, Astro and Phillip Lomax. Lomax was eliminated on week one of the Live Shows, with Astro being eliminated on week six. Marcus Canty came fourth in the competition and was eliminated by the public vote in the semi-final (week eight). Chris Rene was Reid's most successful act who came third overall in the competition, bested by Josh Krajcik (who was mentored by Nicole Scherzinger) in second place and Melanie Amaro (mentored by Simon Cowell) who won the show. After the season ended, Reid worked with Astro, Marcus Canty and Chris Rene on their music careers.
In July 2011, Reid became the chairman and CEO of Epic Records. The label's roster included various former Jive Records artists.
In September 2012, Reid returned for "The X Factor"'s second season along with Simon Cowell, while Nicole Scherzinger and Paula Abdul were axed from the panel, along with Season 1 host Steve Jones. Joining the judging panel were new judges Britney Spears and Demi Lovato, while Khloé Kardashian and Mario Lopez replaced Jones as co-hosts. Reid's team of finalists in the "over 25's" included Tate Stevens, the winner of the season.
Reid announced in December 2012 that he would not return for the third season in 2013 and was replaced by Kelly Rowland.
2013–present: Memoir, "Xscape" album, revival of Hitco.
One of the projects that Reid embarked on following his stint on "The X Factor," was remaking Michael Jackson songs after his death with the album "Xscape", released May 2014. Reid went through 40 years of tracks catalogued by the Jackson estate, and eight tracks of Jackson vocals set to new music from Timbaland and J-Roc, Rodney Jerkins, Stargate and John McClain, the former A&M Records executive who is co-executor of the Jackson estate with John Branca. The originals they worked with were recorded by Michael Jackson from 1983 to 1999, the period just after "Thriller" and before "Invincible". "Xscape" earned Gold certification.
In 2016, Reid published the memoir "Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next". The book received favorable reviews. Soul Train wrote: "In "Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next," his memoir written with Joel Selvin, Reid vividly takes readers on a musical journey via fascinating stories and rare photos that chronicle his modest beginnings as a young musician in Cincinnati, to his storied and adventurous path to becoming one of the most successful music executives in history.
Under Reid, Epic had four albums debut at No. 1: Future, DJ Khaled, Travis Scott, and the final album from A Tribe Called Quest. On March 3, 2017 Future became the only artist on the "Billboard" charts to release back-to-back albums that debuted at number 1.
In May 2017, it was announced that Reid would exit his post at Epic Records following an accusation of unlawful behavior by a female co-worker. In response Reid stated: "I'm proud of my track record promoting, supporting and uplifting women at every company I've ever run. That notwithstanding, if I have ever said anything capable of being misinterpreted, I apologize unreservedly."
While at Epic, Reid established the label as a hub for hip-hop acts such as Future, Travis Scott, DJ Khaled, and had significant success with pop artists including Meghan Trainor and Fifth Harmony. During his tenure, Epic grew its market share to 3.63 percent, up from 2.56 percent when he took over in 2011.
In 2018, Reid became founder and co-chairman of Hitco Entertainment, LLC with Charles Goldstuck, the former Chairman and CEO of TouchTunes Interactive Networks. Formed in January 2018, the company has offices in Los Angeles, New York and Atlanta and has signed over 15 artists including platinum-selling acts Big Boi (of Outkast) and Dinah Jane of Fifth Harmony; the first release is a new album from Big Boi of Outkast. In April 2018, Empire Distribution, the San Francisco-based independent music company founded by Ghazi Shami, announced that it will provide distribution services to Hitco for their first new album release for Big Boi. In August 2018, Hitco held The Hit List showcase in New York City with performances by Hitco artists including Yella Beezy. Hitco's hit, Yella Beezy's "That's on Me", reached No. 1 at Urban Radio and Top 20 at Rhythm in September & has since went on to sell over 2 million copies worldwide. Songwriter Delacey, who has written for the likes of Halsey and Zara Larsson, joined the Hitco roster as a solo artist releasing "My Man," in March 2019. Also in March, Jennifer Lopez premiered the single "Medicine" featuring French Montana, her first release with Reid's Hitco Entertainment label. Using Reid's past project experience on "The X Factor" and Xscape, Hitco is also working on a music documentary and music competition program called "Take the Lead".
Awards and honors.
On August 30, 2006, L.A. Reid, along with Babyface, was honored as a BMI Icon at the 6th annual BMI Urban Awards. As of 2006, he has won 18 BMI awards. Together with Babyface, Reid has produced and/or co-written penning numerous R&B hits, racking up over 40 No. 1 singles.
Reid was honored with the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences' President's Merit Award at the Grammy salute to Industry Icons celebration on February 9, 2013, the day prior to the 55th Grammy Awards. Reid is also a 3 time Grammy Award winner. In 2014, Reid received the Harvard University Alumni Award of Excellence in Media.
In March 2016, Reid, received an award from BET Honors for The Business of Entertainment Award.
Reid is the co-author (with Joel Selvin) of "The New York Times" bestseller "Sing to Me: My Story of Making Music, Finding Magic, and Searching for Who's Next".
Philanthropy.
In 2006, Reid was noted for his philanthropic efforts to bring arts programs to urban youth at the Art for Life Palm Beach fundraiser hosted by Russel Simmons. That year he also received the UJA-Federation of New York's Music Visionary Award. He has also been involved with the Taste of Hope event for the City of Hope organization and the Robin Hood Foundation. In 2008 Reid wrote and co-produced the song "Just Stand Up" for the television special Stand Up To Cancer, which was performed by artists including Mariah Carey, Beyonce, Mary J. Blige, Rihanna, Fergie, Sheryl Crow, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Etheridge, Ashanti, Natasha Bedingfield, Keyshia Cole, Ciara, Leona Lewis, LeAnn Rimes, and Carrie Underwood. The record sales for the single were donated to the show's eponymous organization. In 2009, Reid received the Spirit of Compassion Award from UNICEF.
Sexual harassment allegations.
In 2017, one of Reid's female assistants sent a letter to Sony Music's general counsel alleging that Reid had sexually harassed her on a daily basis over the course of a year, prompting a company investigation. As a result, Reid was forced to step down as chairman and CEO of Sony's Epic Records.
"Variety" subsequently reported that "multiple" women had come forward to accuse Reid of sexual harassment.
In 2018, Reid was also accused of sexually harassing record executive Drew Dixon, subject of the documentary film "On the Record", in the late 1990s. In the documentary, Dixon alleges that Reid subjected her to quid pro quo harassment during her time at Arista Records, and refused to work with her after she rejected his sexual advances. As a result of this refusal, Reid declined to meet with both Kanye West and John Legend, both of whom Dixon was attempting to sign. Reid responded by releasing a statement to Buzzfeed: "If I ever did or said anything that was misinterpreted or somehow created an uncomfortable workplace environment I apologize unreservedly."
Personal life.
Reid has a son named Antonio Reid Jr, born in 1979, from a previous relationship. He married Perri "Pebbles" Reid in 1989; this union produced a son, Aaron Alexander, in November 1989. Reid and Pebbles divorced in 1996. In 2000 he married Erica Holton. They have two children.


Jim Denny (Opry manager)

James Rae Denney (later Denny 28 February 1911 — 27 August 1963) was a American executive in the country music recording and broadcasting industry in the 1940s and '50s. He was head of the Artists Service Bureau for powerful Nashville-based radio station WSM beginning in 1946, served as general manager of the Grand Ole Opry, and launched Cedarwood Publishing Company with country star Webb Pierce in 1954. Upon his 1966 posthumous induction, Denny was the first non-musician to be named into the Country Music Hall of Fame.
Early life and education.
On 28 February 1911, Denny was born in Silver Point, Tennessee, and raised alongside two brothers. At the beginning of the 1920s, Denny moved to Nashville, Tennessee and worked as a courier for Western Union. For his post-secondary education, Denny went to Watkins Institute to study accounting.
Career.
Denny started his career at the National Life and Accident Insurance Company in 1929, working in various departments including mail and as an actuary. The insurance firm had launched WSM radio in 1925, and its signature program, the Grand Ole Opry, had become a national platform for country artists. While with National Life, Denny worked side jobs with the Opry including selling tickets and souvenirs between 1939 and 1946. In 1946, Denny began working at "WSM" as the head of its Artists Service Bureau. While holding the head position at the radio station, Denny became the general manager of the Opry in 1951. Denny partnered with Pierce to create Cedarwood Publishing Company in 1954. A few years later, Denny left the Artists Service Bureau in 1956 after conflict of interest issues were raised by the WSM. After leaving WSM, Denny created the Jim Denny Artist Bureau in 1956 while continuing working at Cedarwood. Denny hired multiple songwriters to write for Cedarwood including Marijohn Wilkin and Carl Perkins while signing a publishing contract with Buddy Holly during the mid-1950s. Denny ended his music executive career in December 1962 after he was diagnosed with colon cancer.
Awards and honors.
In 1955, Denny was named the 1955 "Billboard" Country and Western Man of the Year. Denny became the first non-musician to be named into the Country Music Hall of Fame after his posthumous induction in 1966.
Personal life.
Denny was married and had three kids.
Death.
Denny died at Saint Thomas - West Hospital in Nashville from cancer on 27 August 1963.


Barry Eastmond

Barry James Eastmond is an American musician, composer, songwriter, and record producer. He has contributed to over sixty gold, platinum, and multi-platinum albums with cumulative sales topping 80 million records. Eastmond is an adjunct professor at New York University Steinhardt Performing Arts Department in songwriting and is also involved in the NYU Summer Songwriting Workshop.
Career.
Eastmond started his musical career as pianist. Between the ages of seven and ten, he received classical music training at the Juilliard School of Music's preparatory school. While in high school, Eastmond began playing in local top 40 and wedding bands in Brooklyn. Soon, he became a touring pianist and keyboardist for female R&B singers such as Melba Moore, Phyllis Hyman, Angela Bofill, and Chaka Khan, eventually becoming Moore, Hyman, and Bofill's musical director. At the same time, he worked as a session musician for production duo Gamble & Huff and established himself as a songwriter and arranger.
In 1985, Eastmond wrote and produced singer Freddie Jackson's "You Are My Lady," his first professional producer credit. The second single from Jackson's debut album "Rock Me Tonight" (1985), it peaked at number one on the US "Billboard" Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, prompting Capitol Records to hire Eastmond as the album's main producer. Eastmond's success with Jackson led him to work with Billy Ocean, Jeffrey Osborne, Phil Perry, Jonathan Butler, and Regina Belle. In 1994, he and Gordon Chambers wrote Anita Baker's "I Apologize," which earned Eastmond his first Grammy Award. In 1996, he was hand-picked by Sylvia Rhone to write and produce "Missing You," Brandy, Gladys Knight, Tamia, and Khan's song for the "Set It Off" soundtrack.
Personal life.
Eastmond is married to songwriter Maria Eastmond.


Sheldon Gomberg

Sheldon Gomberg is an American record producer, audio engineer and bassist, who has worked with many artists including Ben Harper, Charlie Musselwhite, Warren Zevon, Rickie Lee Jones, Ryan Adams, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, Five for Fighting, Mandy Moore, k.d. lang, Fistful of Mercy, Victoria Williams, Ron Sexsmith, Lucinda Williams, Jackson Browne, Shelby Lynne, She & Him, The Living Sisters, Joseph Arthur, Plain White T's, Mark Eitzel, Steve Forbert, Ramsay Midwood, and more.
In 2014, he received a Grammy Award for his role as engineer, mixer, and co-producer of the Ben Harper with Charlie Musselwhite album, "Get Up!".
The Five For Fighting album, "America Town", that he played bass on sold platinum, and the song, "Superman" was also nominated for a Grammy Award in 2002.
The album, "Timeless: Hank Williams Tribute", that he played upright bass on with Ryan Adams won the 2001 Grammy for Best Country Album.
Sheldon currently lives in Los Angeles, where he produces and records various artists.
Discography.
Partial list of credits:


Edward Muhl

Edward Ellsworth Muhl (February 17, 1907 - April 22, 2001) was an American businessman and executive best known for being head of production for Universal Pictures from 1953 until his retirement in 1973.
According to one writer, he played key roles in some of the studio's most important decisions. Muhl's contributions range from the technical (he was instrumental in persuading studio heads to shoot most of their films in Technicolor rather than the cheaper black-and-white) to the purely business (he made the deal that allowed MCA to purchase Universal in the early '60s).
Career.
Muhl began his career at Universal in 1927 in the cost accounting department. He became studio business manager and remained in the role until 1934 when he became head of the legal department, despite not being a lawyer. He moved into production in 1936. When William Goetz and Leo Spitz's International Pictures merged with Universal in 1947, Muhl was appointed general manager of studio operations.
In 1953, Muhl was appointed general production executive under Goetz. Later that year he became vice president in charge of production for the studio, replacing Goetz and Spitz, who had run Universal for seven years.
Muhl oversaw a period of expansion for Universal. The studio enjoyed a very successful run of films, primarily comedies (notably those starring Doris Day) and melodramas. When MCA Inc. took over Universal in 1962, other executives shared responsibility for production although the phrase "Edward Muhl In Charge Of Production" appeared on the new Universal logo starting in 1963, a throwback to an industry practice that had largely faded since the 1940s. He was also credited with influential support of the films of Douglas Sirk and Ross Hunter, as well as supporting the blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo's right to screenplay credit on "Spartacus".
In 1970, he shifted to make independent productions for the studio. At the time, he was the longest serving production head in recent Hollywood history.
Personal life.
Muhl's granddaughter is Taylor Muhl. She is a singer/songwriter known as a public advocate for human Chimerism.
Death.
Muhl died on April 22, 2001 at the age of 94. His death took place at his Los Angeles, CA home, surrounded by his family.


Robert Gordy

Robert Louis Gordy (born July 15, 1931) is an American former music publishing executive, and a former recording artist under the stage name Bob Kayli. He is the youngest child of Berry Gordy, Sr. and Bertha Fuller, the brother of Motown founder, Berry Gordy, Jr. and uncle of singer and Rapper Redfoo.
Biography.
Robert Gordy was born in Detroit, Michigan. He had a brief career as a recording artist, and had a minor hit, as Bob Kayli, with the novelty song, "Everyone Was There", co-written with his brother Berry and leased by him to the Carlton label. The record reached #96 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 in November 1958. He recorded a second single on Gordy's Anna label in 1959, "Never More", before working for a time in the postal service. As his older brother's Motown company expanded, Robert returned to work for it, initially as a recording engineer. He also recorded two further singles as Bob Kayli, "Small Sad Sam" (a cover of Phil McLean's answer record to "Big Bad John", Tamla, 1961), and "Hold On Pearl" (Gordy, 1962). Neither was successful, and his career as a recording artist ended.
From 1961, he worked in Motown's publishing arm, Jobete Music. In 1965 he took over as general manager and vice-president of Jobete following the death of his sister Loucye, and reputedly ran the company "like a military platoon". As a songwriter, he co-wrote several songs for early Motown artists including "You're What's Happening (In the World Today)," the B-Side to "I Heard it Through the Grapevine, Motown's biggest single up until that time. As an actor, Robert Gordy also played the character "Hawk" in the 1972 film, "Lady Sings the Blues". By 1974, Jobete had a catalog of over 7,000 songs, with Robert Gordy stating that his aim for the company was to have a "well-rounded stable" of songs, including country and western as well as its established repertoire. He continued to head Jobete until 1985.
He now resides in California.


Julian Adams

Julian Calhoun Adams II is a producer, writer, actor, and architect.
Early life and education.
He is the son of Weston Adams and Elizabeth Nelson Adams, and was born in Columbia, South Carolina. He spent his childhood in South Carolina, and Malawi, Africa. He attended schools in Lilongwe and Blantyre, Malawi. Adams graduated from The University of the South with a degree in Fine Arts, and also earned his Master of Architecture degree from The Georgia Institute of Technology. He is the brother of Robert Adams VI, Weston Adams III, and Wallace Adams-Riley.
Film work.
Together Julian and Weston founded Solar Filmworks. In 2007 they produced, wrote, and starred in the feature film, from ThinkFilm, "" (known as "Strike the Tent" on the film festival circuit) which is the story of Weston's great grandparents, Robert Adams II, and Eveline McCord (Adams) of Philadelphia (the great grandniece of Betsy Ross). The film also stars Amy Redford, Tippi Hedren, Mickey Rooney, and Edwin McCain.
In 2009, Julian produced the feature music documentary "", which was directed by Todd Robinson. It was released by The Documentary Channel. The film chronicles the Austin, Texas based band's tour from Austin, to Marfa, Terlingua, Las Cruces, White Sands, Tucson, and Los Angeles.
Julian produced (with John Watson, and Pen Densham) and co-starred in "Phantom", from RCR Media Group, Trilogy Entertainment Group and Solar Filmworks. The submarine thriller was written and directed by Todd Robinson, and stars Ed Harris, David Duchovny, William Fichtner, Johnathon Schaech, Sean Patrick Flanery, Jason Beghe, Jason Gray-Stanford, Kip Pardue, Lance Henriksen, and Dagmara Domińczyk.
He produced and acted in "The Last Full Measure", from Roadside Attractions, written and directed by Todd Robinson, and starring Samuel L. Jackson, Ed Harris, William Hurt, Christopher Plummer, Sebastian Stan, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Fonda, Diane Ladd, Amy Madigan, Bradley Whitford, and John Savage (actor). In the film, Adams plays the role of Lt. John Quaid.


Sel Hannah

Selden J. Hannah (November 9, 1913 - August 31, 1991) was an intercollegiate, US F.I.S. and seniors ski champion who became one of the nation's most prolific ski-area architects. He was enshrined in the National Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming, Michigan, in 1968. His legacy remains throughout New England and North America in more than 250 ski areas with which he was associated during his lifetime.
Early years.
Selden Hannah, better known as Sel, was born in 1913 in Berlin, New Hampshire, a lumber and paper mill town populated by a colony of Norwegians, who brought their own skis and jumping tradition from their homeland. The Nansen Ski Club built a 45-meter ski jump near Berlin in Paine's Pasture that Sel mastered by age eight. He wasn't much older when he traveled south to Gorham, New Hampshire, and onto Pinkham Notch where he skied on the lower slopes of Mount Washington via the Carriage Road, in Tuckerman Ravine, and occasionally from the summit.
Dartmouth College & World War II.
Sel's skiing career coincided with the era when alpine skiing took hold in the United States. In 1933 he finished fifth as a competitor in the first US National Downhill championship on the Carriage Road on Mount Moosilauke. He participated in all four skiing events during his Dartmouth College years and was captain of the Ski Team in 1935.
During World War II, Sel joined Dick Durrance, another Dartmouth graduate, to assist with Colonel Tappen's mission to train a large group of parachutists from Fort Benning, Georgia. Training for the 503rd Infantry Regiment took place in Alta, Utah. Many recruits had never been on skis, while some, in fact, had never seen snow. Durrance needed a cadre of instructors to do the job. To solve that problem, he contacted friends from collegiate ski racing, including Walter Prager, Sel Hannah, his brother Jimmy, and others to train the troops.
After the war, Sel continued to successfully compete in alpine races within the U.S. Eastern Ski Association and other skiing organizations.
Sno-engineering.
In 1935 while he was a student at Dartmouth College, Sel began laying out Hell's Highway on Mount Moosilauke. In 1936 he was involved with building the Tecumseh Trail in Waterville, New Hampshire. With the rapid growth of skiing in the 1950s, the demand for new ski locations allowed the formation of a company dedicated to designing and building ski areas. Sel founded the firm Sno-engineering in 1958, which began as a hobby but soon grew to a big business. In order to lighten his work load, he resigned as President of Sno-engineering in 1969 and became an independent consultant. An incomplete list of notable ski areas where Sel helped design or build includes:
Ski Hearth Farm.
After graduating from Dartmouth, Sel spent a year at McGill Medical School and the next year teaching at Wilbraham Academy, but eventually took up farming. In 1938, Sel and his wife Paulie bought the Elmer Temple Dairy Farm on Streeter Pond near Franconia, New Hampshire.
In 1956 he sold the dairy operation and keep a small beef herd. He began his potato business in the late 1930s, which was downsized after the war. The beef and vegetable garden thrived over the next several decades. During the winter months, the newly named Ski Hearth Farm was a communal type lodge for friends, relatives, and clients comprising a Who's Who of the early days of New England skiing.


Kevin Altieri

Kevin Altieri is an American television director of animated cartoons. Altieri's directorial works include episodes of "C.O.P.S.", "" and "Stripperella".
Altieri worked on the music video for Pearl Jam's "Do the Evolution".
Altieri directed the five-minute pilot for "Rat Bastard", a cartoon based on the Crucial Comics series of the same name; the short was produced by Imagine Entertainment and pitched to UPN in 2000.


Paul Green (musician)

Paul Green (born July 9, 1972) is an American record producer, film producer, director, screenwriter, singer-songwriter, music teacher, entrepreneur, and philanthropist who founded School of Rock (formerly known as The Paul Green School of Rock Music), a performance-based music program for kids. This for-profit educational company operates and sponsors franchises for after-school music instructional programs in the United States.
First established in Philadelphia in 1998 by Paul Green, schools have opened in states including New York, Utah, California, Illinois, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Maryland, Oregon, Washington, D.C., Virginia, Florida, Georgia, Texas, Colorado, Delaware, Washington, New Jersey, and North Carolina and internationally in Mexico. In 2005, the company was the subject of a documentary film titled "Rock School". In early 2010, Paul Green left the Paul Green School of Rock Music, which is now known as The School of Rock.
On August 9, 2011, the Woodstock Film Festival announced that Green has moved to the Woodstock, New York area and has joined as the Music Coordinator. He is also working with Woodstock Festival co-founder Michael Lang in founding a music college in the Woodstock area. Green has also launched a weekly rock radio show on Radio Woodstock 100.1 WDST called "The Tool Shed with Paul Green" that airs on Saturday evenings from 7-9pm and streams online at RadioWoodstock.com.
The Paul Green School of Rock Music.
Paul Green began giving traditional individual music lessons in his home in 1996. He invited a group of his students to sit in, or "jam", with his own band with disappointing results. But by the third week, he found that the students who played in a group had advanced much more than the students who received only traditional solo instruction. He modified his teaching method to supplement traditional instruction with group practice, with the goal of playing a show. He compared it to the difference between "...shooting hoops and playing basketball". In 1999, the most advanced students played their first public concert at an art gallery.
He took out a loan for $7000 in 2002 and established a permanent location for the first Paul Green School of Rock Music in a dilapidated building at 1320 Race St, Philadelphia that has since been demolished. The location had a number of small rooms for individual instrumental instruction as well as larger performance spaces for full band practices. "Spin" magazine sent Smashing Pumpkins guitarist James Iha to profile Green and the school for the May 2002 issue.
Green chose to name the school after himself to avoid both to confusion with the Herbie Hancock television program and to use his measure of local fame, but always referred the program as "Rock School" and answered the phone using the phrase. Additionally, Green established the domain SchoolofRock.com in 2001, first archived May 24, 2002.
In 2002, a crew from the Viacom television channel VH1 filmed for four days at the Philadelphia location for a proposed reality TV series. After the shoot, the producers stopped returning Green's phone calls. In January 2003 filmmakers Don Argott and Sheena M. Joyce attended a concert by the students, and decided to make a documentary about the school five minutes after the concert started.
They met with Green the next day and began shooting video one day later, intending to follow an entire school year. Midway through the nine months of shooting what became "Rock School", they learned that the Viacom movie studio Paramount would be releasing a fictional film to be called "School of Rock" featuring Jack Black as Dewey Finn, a would-be rock star teaching children to play rock music. Many critics claimed that Black's characterization was based on Green's man-child persona though screenwriter Mike White claimed that he had "...never heard of Paul Green before". Green considered a lawsuit, but decided against it, reasoning that the School benefited from the film saying "I considered suing, but what are you going to do? It's better, in a karmic sense, to just reap the rewards."
In 2002 Green had more than 100 students, and to maintain an acceptable student to teacher ratio, opened an additional location in Downingtown, Pennsylvania. Expansion continued in counties around Philadelphia, then into southern New Jersey and Delaware. Green's dentist, Dr. Joseph Roberts, became chairman of the board of the School and provided funding to expand to San Francisco; New York City; Austin, Texas; Cherry Hill, New Jersey; Salt Lake City; and Sandy, Utah.
Green was bought out in 2009 by investor Sterling Partners and the management team he had brought in, headed by former Clear Channel executive Matt Ross. Ross remained chief executive officer until 2010, managing the company's expansion and private equity acquisition. The name was changed to School of Rock in 2010, and former McDonald's executive Chris Catalano replaced Ross as CEO.
The program consists of year-round, weekly individual lessons as well as full band rehearsals for seasonal shows. Instructors are encouraged to stress the fundamentals of both popular music and music theory in their teaching. There are many teachers per school, all specializing in at least one instrument, often more. Instruction is available in the following areas: electric guitar, bass guitar, drums, keyboards, and vocals. Students are encouraged to play other instruments as well, with instruction from other sources. Students learn songs from popular bands/artists like Led Zeppelin, The Who, Pink Floyd, 80's glam metal, punk, and grunge. Those songs are eventually played at themed live shows held throughout the year.
There are occasional workshops featuring accomplished musicians, and the artists will include discussions about their past experiences, songwriting, live performance and fame in general. To be admitted, students generally must be between the ages of 7 and 18. No musical training or experience is necessary to attend the school.
Green's non-compete agreement with School of Rock expired in 2013, and he announced plans to open a "Paul Green Rock Academy" in Woodstock, NY to serve ages 8 to 18, as well as a "Woodstock Music Lab" in Ulster County with Woodstock Music Festival promoter Michael Lang. In February 2018, Green opened a "Paul Green Rock Academy" in Norwalk, CT.
The film: "Rock School".
"Rock School" is a documentary about Paul Green and The Paul Green School of Rock Music. The documentary exhibits the school through the eyes of its founder, Paul Green. A "New York" Magazine film critic said, "Paul Green is letting his students in on a secret of life that goes beyond school, even stuff that looks easy is hard to do well." The film displays him showing off his wide variety of teaching tactics and also how the school affects the lives of the students that attend. Paul Green is seen several times jumping up and down, screaming at kids, and kicking students, all to teach them. As Ken Tucker, the National Public Radio rock critic, phrased it in his review, "I'd hand out DVDs of "Rock School" to everyone in the country with a teaching degree and dare them to match this level of commitment."
The Annual Paul Green School of Rock Festival.
In June 2007, Paul unveiled his first School of Rock festival. The two-day event at the Jersey Shore in Asbury Park, New Jersey, attracted almost 10,000 people and served as the quintessential example of the School's initial hopes: music education for young musicians through live performances. The festival featured 400 kids from various branches of The Paul Green School of Rock Music from across the nation on stages side by side with headlining acts such as Ween, Bad Brains, the Benevento/Russo Duo and New Jersey's own, the Bouncing Souls. Special events included a lecture from Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys fame and a shred contest sponsored by PRS Guitars.
The 2008 festival was held over the course of three days from June 27 to 29 in Philadelphia. The entire festival included themed shows from Schools as far west as California as well as the now-independent bands of former students. The All-Stars performed before the headlining acts on each day. The first day was held at the Electric Factory with performances by Andrew W.K. and the Butthole Surfers. The Festival Pier at Penn's Landing hosted the final two days with the Hold Steady and Devo on Saturday and Goldfinger, Less Than Jake and the Dropkick Murphys on Sunday. There was also a Shred Contest sponsored by Gibson Guitars, won by a Princeton SOR student named Russell Chell.
Paul Green's All-Stars.
After a few years of running his school Paul decided to create the "All-Stars Program". All-Stars are a group of the best students from the entirety of the program, all across the country, handpicked from schools in the program through auditions. They go on tour to play such venues as BB Kings in Times Square, The Knitting Factory in LA and NYC, The Roxy and Crash Mansion in LA, Stubbs in Austin, Hard Rock Cafes, House of Blues, and many of the biggest festivals in the country such as Lollapalooza, Austin City Limits, along with many others.
They often tour and play with famous musicians from rock's past and present, such as the Butthole Surfers, Slash, Les Paul, Brendon Small, LeAnn Rimes, C. J. Tywoniak, Perry Farrell, Jon Anderson, Peter Frampton, Eddie Vedder, Alice Cooper, Adrian Belew, Napoleon Murphy Brock, Stewart Copeland, John Wetton, Jeff "Skunk" Baxter, Ike Willis, and Ann Wilson. Tryouts are held once a year. The audition requirements include one classic rock song with a backing band, and one solo song of their choice without a backing track. The All-Stars consist of five to seven nationally touring groups.
Musical Collaborations With Paul Green School of Rock.
Paul Green and\or the Paul Green School of Rock have collaborated with the following artists


Ryan Buendia

Ryan Buendia, also known as DJ Replay, is an American DJ, turntablist, producer, and songwriter.


Bill Siddons

Bill Siddons (born 1948) is an American music manager. He is best known for managing the Doors from 1968 to 1972.
The Doors.
Siddons began his career as a teenage roadie with the Doors while attending Cal State Long Beach and six months later was asked to be the manager of the band in 1968. Siddons had this to say about his initial meeting with Jim Morrison: "So what was my first impression of Jim? He scared me to death."
When Morrison died in Paris on July 3, 1971, Pamela Courson (Morrison's girlfriend) immediately contacted Siddons. He flew to Paris and arranged the funeral and burial with Courson. However, he never saw Morrison's body due to there being a closed casket and his aversion to seeing his friend dead. “We buried Jim correctly,” says Siddons, “and that perhaps was my greatest achievement: making sure we kept it quiet until it was done the right way. Nothing to hide, but we knew what was going to happen because we'd just been through it with Jimi and Janis."
After Morrison's death, Siddons continued to manage the remaining members of the Doors as they released two albums and toured. In 1972 he parted company with the Doors (latterly renamed as the Butts Band). He reunited with the remaining Doors in 1978 for the release and marketing of the Jim Morrison's poetry record, "An American Prayer" which reawakened interest in the Doors and their musical significance. His character appears in Oliver Stone's movie "The Doors", in which Josh Evans plays him.
Post-Doors career.
Post-Doors, Bill Siddons continues his career as a manager in the music industry. He managed or co-managed such groups as Crosby, Stills, and Nash, Poco, America, Van Morrison, Pat Benatar, Jerry Cantrell, Robert Palmer, John Klemmer, and, in more recent times, was a co-founder of Core Entertainment, a professional management firm representing Alice in Chains, another band which dealt with the death of its frontman, and others. Siddons co-managed Alice in Chains along with the band's original manager, Susan Silver, from 2005 to 2007. He currently runs Core Entertainment Org., and is partners with Jeremy Rosen Esq. in RoxCore Management, representing Ace of Base, Ozomatli, and Matisyahu.
Personal life.
He is married to comedian Elayne Boosler.


Brent Almond

Brent Almond (born March 3, 1983) is an American film producer. He has recently been nominated for a Grammy for best Music Film for "I'll Sleep When I'm Dead."
Career.
In 2016, Almond produced the comedy "Masterminds"; a heist movie starring Zach Galifianakis, Kristen Wiig, Owen Wilson and Jason Sudeikis.


Dan Hernandez

Daniel Jacob Hernandez (born November 20, 1983) is an American television writer, producer, and film writer. He is most notable for writing "Pokémon Detective Pikachu", which he co-wrote with his writing partner, Benji Samit (along with Rob Letterman, Derek Connolly, and Nicole Perlman). On television, Hernandez and Samit have written for "One Day at a Time", "The Tick", "Super Fun Night", and "1600 Penn". They were named in Paste Magazine's list of the top 28 comedy writers of 2018. In 2019, Samit and Hernandez signed a long-term deal with 20th Century Fox Television to develop, write and produce animated and live-action series.


Rodney Barnes

Rodney Barnes is an American screenwriter and producer. Barnes has written and produced "The Boondocks", "My Wife and Kids", "Everybody Hates Chris", "Those Who Can't", "Marvel's Runaways", "American Gods", , and is currently an executive producer/writer on HBO's Untitled Los Angeles Lakers drama.
He has also earned top honors for his work from the Peabody Awards, American Film Institute, Writers Guild of America, BET Comedy Awards, and NAACP Image Awards.
Early life.
Rodney Barnes was born September 19 in Annapolis, Maryland. During his childhood he quickly gravitated to comic books, primarily superhero style, horror and science fiction. He attended Howard University in Washington, DC. In 1995, Barnes decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue his dream of screenwriting.
Career.
Barnes was a producer and writer for the Damon Wayans show "My Wife and Kids", from 2002 to 2005. He was then a co-executive producer and writer of Chris Rock’s TV series "Everybody Hates Chris", from 2005 to 2009. He was also the co-executive producer of "'Til Death" in 2010, and a consulting producer of "Brothers" in 2009.
After completing 4 seasons of the critically acclaimed animated comedy "The Boondocks", where he served as executive producer and head writer from 2005 to 2014, he was a consulting producer on the TruTV sitcom "Those Who Can't", co-executive producer for the second season of the Comedy Central animated sitcom "Legends of Chamberlain Heights" and co-executive producer for the unproduced second season of "Vinyl" for HBO. He then served as Co-Executive producer/Writer on Hulu's upcoming adaptation of Marvel's "Runaways". In between he was nominated for writing special material by the Writers Guild of America for his work on the 88th Academy Awards, hosted by comedian Chris Rock.
Barnes then served as executive producer for the unproduced Starz drama "Heels". He has also been developing the animated series "Vandaveon and Mike", based on characters created by and starring Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele for Comedy Central, and "Killogy", a graphic novel series from creator Alan Robert.
In 2017, Barnes ventured into writing for his first love, comic books. He authored "Birth of a Patriot," a short story in Marvel Comics' "Secret Empire" spin-off "Brave New World" #2. He then penned the "Falcon (comics)" series for the Marvel Legacy Imprint, the mini-series "Lando: Double or Nothing" for Marvel/Lucasfilm based on the character Lando Calrissian from the Star Wars franchise, and is currently writing "Quincredible" for the Lion Forge imprint and "Killadelphia" for Image Comics.
As well, Barnes co-wrote the adaption of "Arc of Justice", which is set to be produced/financed by the Mark Gordon Company, directed by José Padilha and starring Russell Crowe and David Oyelowo. It is the story of the landmark civil rights case of Ossian Sweet. The screenplay was honoured by the Blacklist as one of the year's best-unproduced screenplays.
Barnes is also developing "Atlanta's Most Wanted", a one-hour crime drama starring T.I., for the Fox Broadcasting Company and producer Jerry Bruckheimer and is attached to write and showrun "Things That Make White People Uncomfortable", an anthology series based on the book of the same name, written by Dallas Cowboys defensive lineman Michael Bennett. He is also writing an untitled creature feature film to be directed by Jordan Roberts for New Regency.
Barnes is writing the novel "Crownsville." A tale of gothic horror to be published in the spring of 2019.
He is also the co-founder of Dark Apocrypha Productions, a production company based in Los Angeles, that creates both traditional and branded content projects. Formerly, he was a columnist for the Huffington Post. More recently, he signed a deal with HBO.
Awards.
Barnes has received a Peabody Award for "The Return of the King" episode of "The Boondocks", and the American Film Institute Award in 2007 for "Everybody Hates Chris".
He has also been nominated for a BET Comedy Award for My Wife and Kids, the NAACP Image Award for "The Boondocks", and the Writers Guild of America Award for "Everybody Hates Chris" and the "88th Academy Awards".


Lauren Beck

Lauren Beck is an American film producer. Best known for producing critically acclaimed film "Manchester by the Sea" (2016) that earned her Academy Award for Best Picture nomination with Matt Damon, Kimberly Steward, Chris Moore, and Kevin J. Walsh.
Filmography.
She was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.


Stan Polley

Stanley Herbert Polley (April 7, 1922 – July 20, 2009) was an entertainment manager and fraudster active in the 1960s and 1970s. His clients included rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, and singer Lou Christie. Throughout his career, Polley defrauded a number of clients and associates.
Biography.
Polley was born on April 7, 1922 in New York City. After serving as a corporal in the U.S. Army during World War II, he practiced law and worked in retail shops before beginning his managerial career in New York's garment industry. He began artist management after he met Lou Christie in the mid-1960s. It was through his association with Christie that he met and began working with other artists in the New York and Los Angeles entertainment fields.
In 1968, Polley formed a company called "Five Arts Management," for his work with singer Lou Christie, musician Al Kooper, arranger Charles Calello, TV director Michael Cooper, composer Sandy Linzer and WABC disc jockey Bob Lewis. He formed further companies for legal and accounting purposes to manage artists including composers Irwin Levine and Larry Brown. In 1970, Polley registered "Badfinger Enterprises, Inc." as a corporate entity for management of the British rock group Badfinger, which had no American representation at the time.
In 1971 Polley was named during US Senate investigation hearings as an intermediary between unnamed crime figures and a New York Supreme Court judge. Most of Polley's American clients said they were already suspicious of their manager by this point, but the publicity of the hearings convinced several to sever ties with him.
In 1972, Polley negotiated a record contract with Warner Bros. Records for Badfinger, which called for advances to be paid into an escrow account. In 1974, Warner's publishing division filed a lawsuit against Polley when it was unsuccessful in locating the funds. The legal morass crippled Badfinger financially; band leader Pete Ham committed suicide on April 24, 1975 leaving behind a note pointing the finger at Polley for his financial ruin. Bandmate Tom Evans committed suicide on November 19, 1983.
In 1991, Polley pleaded no contest to charges of misappropriating funds and money laundering in Riverside County, California. Aeronautics engineer Peter Brock accused Polley of swindling him out of $250,000 after the two set up a corporation to manufacture airplane engines. Polley was placed on probation for five years and ordered by the court to return all missing funds to Brock, although the complainant said the restitution never materialized.
Polley died in Rancho Mirage, California, on 20 July 2009. He is interred in the Riverside National Cemetery in Riverside, California.
Clients.
Polley's clients included singer-producer Hank Medress, and, as mentioned above, the rock band Badfinger, musician Al Kooper, singer Lou Christie, Michael Cooper, Charles Calello, Sandy Linzer and Bob Lewis. Multiple financial dealings by Polley were found to be irregular and to the detriment of his clients, scamming them and causing the acts to fall apart.