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Sep 18, 2012 Pictured at the third BMI Summer Nights on August 19 are BMI’s Delia Orjuela, Davíd Garza and BMI’s Marissa Lopez. View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 Pictured backstage at the last BMI Summer Nights on September 8 are Levitt Pavilion’s Eddie Cota, Palenke Soultribe’s Juan Diego Borda, BMI’s Marissa Lopez, and Palenke Soultribe’s Andres Erazo. View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 Acoustic Lounge, BMI’s monthly singer/songwriter showcase series, was held on Monday, September 10 at Genghis Cohen in Los Angeles, and featured performances by Michelle Delamor, Victoria Ortiz “La Mala,” Shevy Smith, and Fernando Perdomo. The free monthly shows are open to the public and provide an intimate setting for BMI singers and songwriters to perform and network. Pictured are guitarist… View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 BMI invited three promising young songwriters to perform at its monthly songwriters round on September 13, staged at Nashville’s Two Old Hippies. Featuring the songs of Maggie Chapman, Briana Tyson, and Jenny Gill, the night helped further introduce the writers to music publishers, labels and other key industry tastemakers. Pictured are Chapman, BMI’s Leslie Roberts, Tyson and Gill. View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 Pictured at the SCL reception are Emmy-nominated BMI composer Blake Neely, BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross, and Emmy-nominated composer Javier Navarrete. View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 BMI attended the Society of Composers & Lyricists (SCL) reception on Sunday, September 9 at the Academy of Television, Arts & Sciences in North Hollywood to toast this year’s Emmy-nominated. BMI composers Blake Neely (Pan Am), Steven A. Gibson (Country Music), Theodore Shapiro (Game Change), Tony Morales (Hatfields & McCoys), and Javier Navarrete (Hemingway & Gellhorn), who is a member… View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 Pictured at the SCL reception are (front row) composer John Debney, attorney Jay Cooper, composer Sean Callery, music supervisor Anna Granucci, ATAS’ Mark Adler, composer Mark Watters, Guild of Music Supervisors Vice President and music supervisor John Houlihan, composer Robert Duncan, and SCL President Dan Foliart; (back row) BMI’s Lisa Feldman and Doreen Ringer Ross, Guild of Music Supervisors President… View Photo

Sep 18, 2012 Pictured at the SCL reception are SCL Executive Director Laura Dunn, Emmy-nominated BMI composer Theodore Shapiro, BMI’s Doreen Ringer Ross, Emmy-nominated BMI composer Blake Neely, and BMI’s Ray Yee and Lisa Feldman. View Photo

Sep 14, 2012 British sensation Conor Maynard recently joined BMI’s songwriting family. Maynard stepped into the limelight after winning MTV’s Brand New for 2012 award, and has since gone on to achieve a No. 1 album and two top 10 singles in the UK. Ne-Yo has described Maynard as “ridiculously talented,” which Pharrell Williams claimed, “This kid will change the future of pop… View Photo

Sep 14, 2012 Hailey Steele, BMI songwriter and alumna of NBC’s The Voice, recently stopped by BMI in Nashville to celebrate signing with BMG Chrysalis. Pictured are (seated) BMG Chrysalis’s Sara Johnson, Hailey Steele, and Graffam Middleton’s Tyler Middleton; (standing) BMG Chrysalis’s Darrell Franklin, Scott Knabe Management’s Scott Knabe, and BMI’s Bradley Collins. View Photo