| Black Gospel Promo President Veda Brown Is Nominated For A Crystal Mic Media Award As Eblaster of the Year By The Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA)
Ceremony To Be Held July, 27, 2010 in Cincinnati, OH
Veda Brown, president of Black Gospel Promo
The Gospel Music Workshop of America (GMWA) is one of America's most prestigious music trade organizations. The group founded by the late Rev. James Cleveland in 1967, will host its third Crystal Mic Award Ceremony at the Gala 40th Anniversary Luncheon of the GMWA's Gospel Announcer's Guild on Tuesday, July 27, 2010 at 12:00 p.m. at the Hilton Netherland Hotel in Cincinnati, OH. Co-sponsored by Tracey Artis and the I Hear Music Conference, Claude and Vicki Lataillade and Central South Distribution. The program will be taped for broadcast on The Word Network, a cable TV network, later in the year.
Among the nominees for the Crystal Mic Media Award in the category of Eblaster of the Year are Black Gospel Promo founder and president, Veda Brown. For a decade, the Philadelphia native has sent out daily email blasts about African-American films, music, ministries and products to a database of over 150,000 people throughout North America and Europe. Brown is nominated in category with nine other e-blast executives. The general public is invited to vote for Brown at www.crystalmicmediaawards.com.
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Brown holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from Moore College of Art and Design. She got her start by launching AOL's Net Noir Black Gospel Chapel in the 1990s while working for gospel record labels and artist (Vickie Winans). After NetNoir sold the company six years later, Brown went to work for a prominent minister for a few months before they had a major disagreement and she was left unemployed. Prior to her exit, she had sent out several email blasts on one of the pastor's projects and his church which is how she started e-blasting on a regular basis. She then called Gospel Industry Exec Vernice Watson to vent about her situation. Instead of allowing her to wallow, Watson said, "So, what! Can you send out an eblast on Kirk Franklin for me?" After Brown ran a blast on Franklin's platinum "The Rebirth of Kirk Franklin" project, she says, "everybody and their grandma wanted me to do a promo on them just because Kirk Franklin did one."
Brown didn't see this as a long-term enterprise and wasn't even operating under a business name when she launched this company in 2001. "After a while, I had too many names to send the blasts through AOL," she explains. "Because at a certain point, they consider it spam mail." So, she then secured space on a server and they asked her what her company name was. She hadn't thought of a name, so she just told them to use her AOL email address, which was blackgospelpromo, and the rest is history. Today, the firm has a large office space and employs three people in-house, three consultants and a host of subcontractors. Now that the foundation of her business is firm, Brown has branched off into other areas of media by launching a consulting division that has represented gold-selling artists such as Kurt Carr. A few of her clients include, but, is not limited to: Radio One Founder, Cathy Hughes, Superbowl Gospel, Tavis Smiley, Lions Gate, Sony, Bishop T. D. Jakes, BET, The Word Network, Verity Records, Light Records, Tyscot, EMI Gospel and a host of signed and independent gospel artist, ministries and Christian businesses and authors.
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