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May 16, 2012 BMI Pop Songwriter and Song of the Year winner Ester Dean poses backstage during the 60th annual BMI Pop Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. View Photo

May 16, 2012 Jeremy Reeves, Ray Romulus, and Jon Street of production team Stereotypes arrive at the 60th annual BMI Pop Awards at the Beverly Wilshire Four Seasons Hotel on May 15, 2012 in Beverly Hills, California. View Photo

May 14, 2012 Award-winning BMI songwriter Liz Rose brought two of her publishing company’s newest writers, Jesse Stevie Walker and Jeff Middleton, by BMI’s Nashville offices so the pair could officially join BMI as songwriters. Artists such as Avril Lavigne, Brie Larson, and Martina McBride have recorded Walker’s material, and Middleton plays guitar for Warner Bros Records’ the Dirt Drifters. Pictured are (standing)… View Photo

May 09, 2012 Pictured at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival are the Key West Songwriters Festival’s Dani Holliday, BMI’s Julie Stuckey, and the Key West Songwriters Festival’s Nadene Grossman. View Photo

May 09, 2012 Pictured at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival are BMI’s Mark Mason, Al Anderson, Fame Studios’ Rodney Hall, the Crested Butte Mountain Resort and Crested Butte Songwriters Festival’s Lawson Peddlar, the Tennessee Film Entertainment and Music Commission’s Hank Adam Locklin, and the Key West Music Festival’s Charlie Bauer. View Photo

May 09, 2012 Pictured at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival are BMI songwriters Pat McLaughlin, Lori McKenna, Sally McLaughlin, and Liz Rose. View Photo

May 09, 2012 Pictured at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival are Elizabeth Eckert, BMI’s Julie Stuckey, Jeffrey East, Dave Thomson, Alex Heddle, and Ten Ten’s Dave Pacula. View Photo

May 09, 2012 James Slater shows off a custom beach cruiser at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival. View Photo

May 09, 2012 Pictured at the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival are songwriter Jeff Black, BMI’s Mark Mason, and Tom Pernikoff of the Pernikoff Brothers. View Photo

May 09, 2012 Pictured at the kick-off party for the 2012 Key West Songwriters Festival are GAC TV’s Storme Warren; BMI’s Clay Bradley; The World Famous Headliners’ Pat McLaughlin, Al Anderson, Shawn Camp, and Greg Morrow; Craig Cates, Mayor of Key West; The World Famous Headliners’ Michael Rhodes; Better Angels Music’s Rob Rappaport; and BMI’s Mark Mason. View Photo