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BBM Profile: Cynthia Badie Beard

Thanks to my career in the record industry I’ve enjoyed a exciting and fun-filled life.  It started in the San Francisco Bay area as a member of the then popular & successful doo-wop group, The Crescendos.  A memorable moment was when Otis Re ...

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BBM Profile: Sheila Coates

Janet, Diddy, Prince, Aretha, Whitney, Lenny Kravitz, Babyface, Barry White, Diddy, Q-tip are a few of the great folks I worked with.  When asked where I’ve worked… I say everywhere but WEA! Coming from the #1 Urban station in the Bay (KSOL) I dec ...

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BBM Profile: Andre & Lisa Fuller

Andre: My music career journey began as a college student working at Tower Records, as a manager, buyer, and Billboard reporter. Thanks to the grace of God, I quickly moved up the ranks and made my debut @ MCA . But, working at Motown Records and ...

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BBM Profile: Ardenia Brown

My career started in the music industry working with 3 of the top artist agencies, Norby Walters Agency and William Morris Agency in NYC and Jam Productions in Chicago securing artists for concert bookings such as Guy, Public Enemy, Luther Vandross a ...

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BBM Profile: Christopher Cathcart

After earning a degree in public relations from Howard University, and spending nearly 3 years in CNN's communications department, I landed my first music business-adjacent gig in 1989 at the Terrie Williams Agency. Terrie, still a great friend and m ...

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Profile: Cie Cie Wilson McGhee

I knew I wanted to be in the music industry when I was a young child. My first concert was seeing the Jackson 5 in Atlanta.  I was intrigued with the energy coming from the stage, the lights, the production, the people. I found out that Taurus Produc ...

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BBM Profile: Wanda Ramos

Starday King Records was my first real job in the music industry.  This led to many associations in the industry meeting radio & record executives.  Since I had graduated from secretarial school, my skills at office administration qualified m ...

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BBM Profile: Arrik Weathers

After graduating from USC, I was introduced to industry legend, Violet Brown, by Don Clemons. She hired me as a store manager at the highest grossing urban record store on the west coast, Wherehouse Records #502 on LaBrea & Rodeo. The historic lo ...

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BBM Profile: Brian Anthony

I started in radio at my alma mater Texas Southern University in Houston, Texas at KTSU-FM, doing Morning Drive in a Jazz format.  Five years later after graduation, I moved to St Louis to KATZ-FM as air personality and eventually Program Director.  ...

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BMM Profile: Lisa Jefferson

I started my music industry career in music at A&M Records Publicity in 1989, after growing up in Detroit and graduating from Michigan State University. My Detroit family were some of the Motown pioneers including The Four Tops, Smokey Robinson a ...