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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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. ...
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 ...
I grew up in the Bronx during the 50s. The two most important things to me besides family were music and football. I used to fall asleep to the sounds of my transistor radio. In those days, it was listening to WWRL, WMCA and WABC. So I grew up with a ...
As the daughter of Tuskegee Airman, George Carper, I was always encouraged to spread my wings and soar. I was born in St. Louis, MO and introduced to the world of broadcasting at Fisk University in Nashville. I was always outgoing and was voted 1s ...
I grew up in the music business as the grandson of Jack “The Rapper “ Gibson, legendary Black Music & Radio Pioneer & founder of the famed black music convention Jack the Rapper Family Affair. Those years I spent working & hanging at the ...
Like others, the music industry was the extent of my professional experience until it was time to “reinvent” myself. Today, I’m the Senior Global Marketing Manager for a $1B business at Kimberly-Clark. It is easy to see how my experience growing ...
