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Intercept Music Expands Its ‘Artist Incubator’ Program with Additional Labels as Strategic Partners
February 18, 2021 GMT
Platform is Designed to Bridge Gap Between Music Artists and a Recording Contract
LOS ANGELES, CA / ACCESSWIRE / February 18, 2021 / Intercept Music, Inc., a marketing and distribution company with a focus on technologies for the entertainment industry, today announced two more members to Artist Incubator, a program that develops emerging recording artists with the goal of becoming signed to a music label. Labels that refer artists to the Artist Incubator program will stay in touch with the artist by way of Intercept Music’s advanced performance analytics.
Courtesy Gingko Press IncThe elegantly attired, 4-foot-11-inch great grandmother might not have been easily identifiable as a music mogul to the industry insiders attending the American Association of Independent Music Awards at Manhattan’s Highline Ballroom on that day in the summer of 2015. Then Patricia Chin, co-founder of reggae label VP Records, stepped up to the stage to receive the group’s Lifetime Achievement Award, the first woman ever to have done so. “As I look out at the audience tonight, I imagine that many of you may be asking yourselves, ‘who is this Chinese lady with this big Jamaican accent, and what is VP Records?’” said Miss Pat, (as she is affectionately known) in her acceptance speech, to roaring applause. “In large part the story of VP Records is about a woman working behind the scenes and her journey for the past 50 years in the reggae music industry.”VP Records, established in Queens, New York, in 1979, wit
Caribbean-American immigrant, journalist, entrepreneur, and advocate, Felicia J. Persaud, is all about celebrating history, and at this moment in time, the name Kamala Harris is nothing short of historic. Persaud has seized the moment to rally the Caribbean to stage a super party in honour of the fact that United States VP-elect, Harris, is the first black woman to hold this post, and she is Caribbean to boot.
Significantly, however, Persaud was persuaded to take this stand owing to the fact that somehow, Harris’ Caribbean heritage is all too often being overlooked. “It upsets me how Caribbean people continue to be ignored. Kamala Harris is the first black Caribbean-Indian-American VP, except that her Caribbean/Jamaican heritage is being ignored. Most of the reports speak to her Indian/American heritage and that’s it. So we have to put some spotlight on the Caribbean community and make some noise,” Persaud told
US vice-president elect Kamala Harris.
Two Caribbean organisations have joined forces to put on a star-studded Caribbean celebration for US vice-president elect Kamala Harris ahead of her inauguration.
According to a release on CaribPR Wire, global private sector investment agency Invest Caribbean (ICN) and the Caribbean American Action Network (CAAN), a collective of Caribbean American and Caribbean organisations, will be presenting a live, virtual, Caribbean inauguration party under the theme: “Celebrating #CaribbeanAmericanKamala.” Caribbean American voters turned out in huge numbers to select the Joe Biden/Kamala Harris ticket on November 3, 2020. On Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. weekend, January 17, 2021, there will be an impressive gathering in cyberspace with some of the Caribbean’s most notable artistes, dignitaries, and organisations globally to mark another dynamic moment in history the pending swearing-in of Harris as the first black and female, Caribbean-A