This was a fun and aggravating episode to work on. We moved the shoot dates about 4-5 times. Management, the channel, and I couldn’t agree on what we wanted to shoot. Each artist’s television shoots are broken down in two parts. One day of shooting had to be a ‘day in the life’ type of shooting where people could get a better sense of Melanie’s personality and her busy schedule. The other day of shooting consists of the performance in front of a live audience. The aggravating part was that we couldn’t all come to an agreement over what the ‘day in the life’ segment was going to be. The channel and I wanted to shoot in her hometown in Toronto but mgmt wanted it either LA or NY. After A LOT of back and forth, we ended up shooting in NY. The two days of shooting turned out to be great and I give kudos to mgmt to sticking their ground. If you haven’t already heard of Melanie you depriving yourself of experiencing a true rising star. She is one of the best artists I’ve had the pleasure of working with. Incredible personality, presence, voice, looks, the complete package. When she performed the performance portion of the show, I got chills like a proud papa. All that work culminated into a great mini concert & an episode that aired on BET. Enjoy!
Saturday, August 28, 2010
Saturday, August 21, 2010
Craig David
Recently, I came across a clip of Craig David performing on a UK TV show. I worked with Craig back in early 2000s to bring his music to the US. His debut album was good from beginning to end, I couldn't stop playing the damn thing!
He was one of the most disciplined eaters I've ever come across. All he ate was a plain chicken breast, baked potato, and broccoli FOR EVERY MEAL!!! Besides being disciplined, he was an all around good guy. Definitely enjoyed working with him and his guitarist, Frasier. Here are two of his videos that I had the pleasure of working (I never get sick of these songs), let me know what you think:
Here's his current website to see what he's up to now.
Tuesday, August 17, 2010
Corneille - An artist you should know about
I had the pleasure of working with this guy last year. Even though we didn't do a lot of things together we got a chance to hang out and become friends. He's an extremely talented songwriter/singer of Rwandan descent with an incredibly powerful story. He's extremely popular in the French language countries and we tried to break him in the States. Obviously the record label got a big #FAIL on this project... We recently reconnected via his manager (Hey LF!) and talked about social media and why he needs to be involved. He just signed up to twitter recently and has been starting be active on facebook. Follow him and tell 'em @b1ward sent ya!
Here are some more links to enjoy his music and other videos:
Too Much of Anything (Video)
Thursday, August 5, 2010
Oh the Irony
I couldn't resist taking this picture. Guess people can't read or don't
care for the law.
