NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ DaMystro Music) - Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) saluted the world's premier R&B, rap and hip-hop songwriters, producers and music publishers at its annual Urban Awards. BMI President & CEO Del Bryant and Catherine Brewton, Vice President, Writer/Publisher Relations, Atlanta, hosted the ceremony at Frederick P. Rose Hall in New York City.
LOS Da Mystro won a 2009 BMI Top Urban Producer Award for being on an elite list of composers who logged the most producer credits on charting songs over the past year. Other winners include Kanye West, T-Pain, JR Rotem, Lil Wayne, T.I., Chris Brown and Young Jeezy. Universal Music Publishing earned its second consecutive BMI Urban Publisher of the year trophy. The night's festivities concluded with the presentation of the BMI Icon Award to George Clinton.
'I just can't believe that yesterday we donated our first DaMystro Music Workstation to Cass Tech High School in Detroit and today I win a BMI Top Producer Award in New York City,' says LOS Da Mystro. 'I humbly dedicate this award to my Mother, Father, mentor Harold McKinney, high school music teacher Patricia Terry Ross, my team and all those who have, and will continue to, contribute to my success.'
About DaMystro
Grammy nominated, and 2009 BMI Top Producer Award winning, LOS Da Mystro has produced hit songs for Usher, Mariah Carey, R. Kelly, Ciara, Jordin Sparks, J. Holiday and The-Dream and has performed with jazz greats including Wynton and Branford Marsalis, Elvin Jones, Sonny Rollins, Kenny Garrett and his Uncle and mentor Harold McKinney who has a street named after him in their home town Detroit. DaMystro Music is a 360� management, music and publishing company founded by music producer LOS Da Mystro and digital entertainment executive John Huffman IV from the Real Content Group. DaMystro works with the L.A. Reid Music Publishing Company to donate DaMystro Music Workstations to high schools in America and around the world. www.damystro.com
About BMI
Broadcast Music, Inc. (BMI) collects license fees on behalf of songwriters, composers and music publishers and distributes them as royalties to those members whose works have been performed. As a performing right organization, BMI issues licenses to various users of music, including television and radio stations and networks; new media, including the Internet and mobile technologies such as ringtones and ringbacks; satellite audio services like XM and Sirius; nightclubs, discos, hotels, bars, restaurants and other venues; digital jukeboxes; and live concerts. It then tracks public performances of its members' music, and collects and distributes licensing revenues for those performances as royalties to the more than 400,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers it represents, as well as the thousands of creators from around the world who have chosen BMI for representation in the U.S.
