AZNAVOUR TO RECEIVE MIDEM AWARD

PanARMENIAN.Net
15.01.2009 15:55 GMT+04:00

/PanARMENIAN.Net/ MIDEM, the international music market, will host a
growing list of industry talent for the 2009 edition, which runs in
Cannes from 18-21 January.

The 43rd MIDEM will pay tribute to the industry’s most exceptional
personalities and artists. Charles Aznavour will receive a "Lifetime
Achievement Award" for a career studded with over 800 songs and sales
of 100 million albums.

Тhis year’s MIDEM conferences will bring together around 200 key
decision-makers to talk about the industry’s different areas of
expansion such as live performance; independents; managers; images
and brands; artist development; and for the first time this year,
publishers, with a special dedicated event – the International
Publishing Summit. MIDEM will also be welcoming Brian Message,
co-manager of Radiohead, Faithless & Kate Nash and Steering Committee
Member of the Featured Artist Coalition; Jay Marciano, President
of Madison Square Garden Entertainment; Andre de Raaff, CEO of
publishing company Imagem Music; Ralph Peer II, CEO and Chairman of
peermusic; Michael Eaton, Business Manager for Eric Clapton; Bruce
Flohr, Executive, Red Light Management/Partner, ATO Records; Simon
Raymonde, Managing Director of Bella Union and former member of the
Cocteau Twins; Ben Watt, Founder and Owner of Buzzin’ Fly Records and
Strange Feeling Records and former member of Everything But The Girl.

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