BMI is proud to congratulate versatile singer/songwriter/producer Zuberi “@uD!o” Mackson for earning the 2019 Curtis Mayfield Scholarship Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. Originally from Lakewood, New Jersey, this up-and-coming music creator first started defining his vocation at Five Towns Music College in Dix Hills, New York, delving deeply… Read more...
“The National Recording Registry honors the music that enriches our souls, the voices that tell our stories and the sounds that mirror our lives,” said Librarian of Congress Carla Hayden as she named the 25 new recordings to be added to the National Recording Registry for 2018. The recordings, eight… Read more...
As part of African American Music Appreciation Month in June, the Apollo Theater took the opportunity to highlight musician and BMI songwriter Curtis Mayfield with a special Apollo Theater Study Guide. Get on Board! pays tribute to Mayfield’s life and music and highlights songs that he wrote during… Read more...
Celebrities, media and music industry tastemakers converged at the Manhattan Center’s Hammerstein Ballroom in New York City on August 22 to watch Broadcast Music, Inc. present the BMI Icon Award to Cash Money Records' Bryan “Birdman” Williams and Ronald “Slim” Williams at the 2013 BMI R&B/Hip-Hop Awards. The star-studded event,… Read more...
BMI will present the Daptone Records Super Soul Revue at an official SXSW 2013 Showcase on Thursday, March 14 at ACL Live at The Moody Theater featuring Daptone’s biggest names in a non-stop, all night show. The label’s first lady and house band Sharon Jones & The Dap-Kings will be… Read more...
In its June issue, Rolling Stone magazine offered the latest version of its “500 Greatest Songs of All Time,” an update of its countdown originally released in 2004. Nuggets crafted by BMI songwriters overwhelmingly dominate the list: Standards from the BMI catalogue make up more than 60% of the classic… Read more...
Taylor Swift will receive the prestigious Hal David Starlight Award during the 2010 Songwriters Hall of Fame Awards dinner, slated for Thursday, June 17 at the New York Marriott Marquis Hotel. In making the announcement, Hal David, Chairman/CEO of the Songwriters Hall of Fame, emphasized the magnitude of Swift’s breakthrough:… Read more...
They’re the self-proclaimed originators of “Dirty Reggae,” a back-to-basics fusion of lurching Caribbean pop rhythms, 60s-style soul melodies and pure punk attitude. Emerging heroes of the skate punk/ska scenes, the Aggrolites triumphantly contemporize the sounds of pop legends like Bob Marley and the Wailers and Curtis Mayfield, while offering lyrics… Read more...
At a recent ceremony, legendary BMI singer/songwriter Curtis Mayfield was posthumously inducted into Hollywood’s RockWalk. Mayfield’s widow Altheida paid tribute to her husband’s substantial achievements, which include songs “People Get Ready “and “Keep On Pushing” - dubbed the unofficial anthems of the civil rights movement by Dr. Martin Luther King,… Read more...
BMI’s New York Writer/Publisher Relations department hosted its first “Who’s Next: Writers on the Rise” event on Tuesday, Feb. 20 at the Redeye Grill in Manhattan. The packed media reception featured Josiah Bell, Dave Katz, Claude Kelly, Lady GaGa, Lanz, Matthew Mayfield, Curtis Richardson, Steven Sater, Duncan Sheik, Brent Smith… Read more...
