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Taxi Amarillo

It is a well known fact that New York’s musical landscape is as diverse as the people living in it, and perhaps only truly experienced by those that spend their days picking up and dropping off passengers in the city’s yellow cabs. Traveling from neighborhood to neighborhood, the music that infiltrates through their windows constantly changes beat, changes rhythm, creating a unique blend of r&b, soul, salsa, rock, pop and…
CISAC Announces Launch of CIS Net Using FastTrack Technology
The International Confederation of Societies of Authors and Composers (CISAC) joins with its 209 member societies in announcing the MIDEM launch of CIS Net - the CISAC technology connecting authors' societies around the world. Shown at the announcement are Claude Gaillard, SACEM Director and…
Aaron Barker Finds Road to Success Fruitful
When Aaron Barker got home after a day of peddling oranges on a roadside near San Antonio in 1988, he found an envelope from BMI in the mailbox. "The envelope had a big check in it," Barker said. "I yelled, 'Oh, my God! Somebody at BMI really screwed up!' That check was more money than I had earned in the last ten years!…
An Open Mind Opens Doors for Gerald Levert

Gerald Levert never was one to ride on rep - not the one he's carved for himself as a top tier R&B singer/songwriter, producer and businessman, or the one he inherited from dad Eddie, an original member of O'Jays. Change, according to Levert, is a key part of his game. "You always have to be open, and look to what's out there," he says. "A lot of…
