Industry Ink: Jameson Rodgers, Sound Royalties, Dance Party To End ALZ

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Jameson Rodgers Gets Plaqued

Back (L-R) – Sam Forbert (CAA), Chris Farren (Combustion Music), JP Durant (Red Light Management), Lyndsay Church (Columbia), Jameson Rodgers, Courtney Beebe (Sony Music Nashville), Kelly Lyons (Combustion Music), Zebb Luster (River House Artists), Randi McFadden (River House Artists), Kayla Adkins (River House Artists) Front (l-r) – Chris Van Belkom (Combustion Music), Kenley Flynn (Combustion Music) Photo courtesy Combustion Music

Jameson Rodgers was surprised recently with two commemorative plaques for “I Don’t Know About You,” which was officially certified Gold, and “Talk You Out of It” (recorded by Florida Georgia Line) which went Platinum. Fresh off his recent debut at the famed Grand Ole Opry, Rodgers is celebrating his first No. 1 as a songwriter as Chris Lane’s “I Don’t Know About You,” which Rodgers co-wrote with Ashley Gorley, HARDY and Hunter Phelps, and reached the top of the Billboard Country Airplay and Mediabase/Country Aircheck charts this week.

 

Sound Royalties Honors Rudy Perez

Sound Royalties honored producer Rudy Pérez (center, with songwriter/producer Desmond Child and Alex Heiche, Sound Royalties CEO) at a VIP reception in Nashville

Entertainment industry finance firm Sound Royalties hosted a private Nashville reception recently, honoring composer/producer Rudy Perez, one of the most influential figures in Latin Music.

More than 250 industry leaders including recording artists, label executives and representatives of ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC gathered at Nashville’s Icon Ultra Lounge in The Gulch to celebrate Pérez and his memoir, The Latin Hitmaker, written with Robert Noland. The book chronicles the journey of a young Cuban refugee who survived the gritty streets of Miami to ultimately create some of the greatest music of the twenty-first century.

Perez, a five-time Grammy winner, Perez has written or produced hits for artists including Celia Cruz, Beyoncé, Julio Iglesias, Christina Aguilera, Natalie Cole, Ricky Martin, Michael Bolton, Marc Anthony, José Feliciano, Il Divo, Christian Castro, and many others. Together with his lifelong friend and fellow Songwriters Hall of Fame inductee Desmond Child, Perez cofounded both the Latin Grammys and Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame (La Musa Awards) and serves on the Board of ASCAP.

 

Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Storme Warren Host Third Annual Dance Party to End ALZ

Storme Warren, guest Brad Paisley, Kimberly Williams-Paisley and guest attend Nashville’s 80’s dance party to end ALZ benefitting the Alzheimer’s Association on September 29, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. (Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Alzheimer’s Association)

Kimberly Williams-Paisley and Storme Warren hosted the third annual Dance Party to End ALZ at Nashville’s Wildhorse Saloon. The star-studded event raised nearly $350,000 for research programs funded by the Alzheimer’s Association. Top artists took to the stage with their favorite hits from the ‘80s while decked out in iconic fashion as a nod to the decade.

Performances included: REO Speedwagon’s Kevin Cronin and Dave Amato performed their hit anthems “Can’t Fight This Feeling,” “Keep On Loving You,” “Take It On The Run,” and “Roll With The Changes,” Brad Paisley’s renditions of “Dixieland Delight” and “Guitars, Cadillacs,” Sheryl Crow’s spin on favorite “Walking on Sunshine,” Shenandoah with three of their classics “Two Dozen Roses,” “I Got You” and “Sunday in the South,” Chris Daughtry’s electric version of “Rebel Yell,” Ashley Campbell channeled Dolly Parton for “9 to 5,” Hunter Hayes’ bringing the crowd to their feet with “Footloose,” and  A group finale of “Two Tickets to Paradise.”

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