Since even before getting started in music in the mid-80’s, Los Angeles native Marti Frederiksen has been driven by a love of making music and an innate restlessness. Specializing in straight-ahead rock, Frederiksen cut his teeth playing drums in bands, finding his creative voice and realizing an inner knack for… Read more...
Doreen Ringer-Ross, BMI’s Vice President, Film/TV Relations, hosted BMI’s annual dinner at Robert Redford’s restaurant, Zoom, on Tuesday, January 27, during the 2015 Sundance Film Festival. The intimate affair provides Sundance composers, directors and film executives the opportunity to engage in conversation among their peers while in Park City. load_slides_from("BMI… Read more...
BMI President & CEO Del Bryant received the Michael Bolton Charities Lifetime Achievement Award over the weekend at the Michael Bolton Charities and Dave Mason Benefit Concert and Celebrity Golf Classic. Held September 10 at the Ojai (Calif.) Valley Inn and Spa, the second annual installment of the event was… Read more...
RedOne sighs wistfully when he recalls the events that would eventually transform him into one of the world’s most sought-after writers/producers. It was 2007, and the budding recording guru was approached about the possibility of collaborating with a then-unknown singer/songwriter named “Lady Gaga.” Initially, RedOne was less than enthused. For… Read more...
RedOne Earns Songwriter of the Year Crown; Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” Named Song of the Year; Warner-Tamerlane Publishing Corp. Earns Publisher of the Year BMI held its 58th annual Pop Music Awards tonight at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel in Los Angeles. John Fogerty was celebrated as a BMI Icon; RedOne… Read more...
Looks can be deceiving, so they say, and that’s certainly true of Orianthi. Diminutive and soft-spoken, the 24-year-old guitar sensation nonetheless plays with a dazzling virtuosity that’s already earned her a place on-stage with the likes of Carlos Santana, Steve Vai and, most notably, Michael Jackson. “I had never been… Read more...
