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Music For A Purpose creates, promotes and supports music related events and product that directly provide revenue and resources to local, regional, national and   international causes.

  Management

 

DeeDee - Co- Executive Director  deedee@musicforapurpose.org
   

DeeDee is a jack of all trades in radio doing everything from on-air to promotions, her career includes 94.7 THE ZONE Chicago, HOT 99.5 DC, 103.1 WRNR Annap/Baltimore and XM RADIO to name a few. Her TV career includes The Mo Show, American Music Awards and Grammy’s. Her little voice also has DeeDee doing freelance voice over work. DeeDee started doing volunteer work as a child with her parents, going to nursing homes and visiting the residents, her parents wanted to make sure she understood the true meaning of getting out of yourself and helping others. Today DeeDee does volunteer work with recovering addicts, she has made a trip to Walter Reed to visit the soldiers and brought them gifts from XM RADIO. The news of the cyclone that hit Myanmar wouldn’t leave DeeDee, she had this strong feeling to help the victims of the cyclone, and she got together with Zoltar, Ted Kelly and Stephan Shin to put together a benefit concert MUSIC FOR MYANMAR.

   
Ted Kelly - Co- Executive Director ted@musicforapurpose.org
   

Ted Kelly is an internationally recognized digital media and terrestrial radio veteran of programming, on-air, marketing/communication and sales promotion. As Vice President Global Content Promotions and Event Marketing for WorldSpace Satellite Radio and Program Director/Presenter for UPop 29, Kelly is responsible for developing all global promotion events for WorldSpace and their U.S. XM Channels including the annual "UPop Sessions at Abbey Road," which made history in 2006 as the first global satellite radio broadcast from the legendary Abbey Road Studios.


Prior to joining WorldSpace, Ted Kelly was a national executive with CBS and Westwood One. In 1996, as National Vice President of Marketing and Communications, Kelly was responsible for leading CBS Radio Networks and Westwood One into digital media with the first streaming sports, news and entertainment programming. Kelly went on to become Managing Director of Intervox Communications, a streaming media and global broadcast consulting firm in Washington, DC. Kelly has integrated all facets of digital media into the 2007 "UPop Sessions at Abbey Road" including forging the alliance with Napster Europe which will make many of the artist performances available for video and audio download at napster.co.uk. "The UPop Sessions @ Abbey Road" will be digitally broadcast around the globe via WorldSpace and XM Satellite Radio, AOL/XM online and Direct TV in North America.


Ted Kelly is the former chairman of the radio and television committee for the International Radio Television Society (IRTS) in New York/London, and has been an invited guest of the British Radio Academy Music and Radio Conference, speaking on the future of digital broadcasting. Ted Kelly was recently named one of the first American broadcasters invited by the British Phonographic Institute (BPI) to take part in the nomination selection process for the 2007 Brit Awards. He is also the recipient of an Emmy Award honor for CBS TV voice-over, a major market terrestrial radio air talent and is currently a member of the advisory board of the Minority Media Telecom Council.

   
Stephan Shin - Co- Executive Director stephan@musicforapurpose.org
   

Stephan Shin has been a leader, visionary and entrepreneur all his life. He started his first business venture at the age of 16. Since then he has moved up in the business world founding and funding many companies. He also sits on the board of directors of many companies. Most recently Mr. Shin holds the chairman position at Shin, McGhee & Mann and Associates. Some of his recent ventures include Ethereal Web Design, Terra Investments, Daisy’s Pet Services, and many more. His philanthropic belief of giving back to the community is shown by working with many non profits, including Special Olympics, Kennedy Krieger Institute, US Marine Corps Toys for Tots Foundation as while as many more great organizations.  Currently, Mr. Shin has spent the last two years being an angel funder, consulting and mentoring entrepreneur in their start ups.

   
Zoltar - Co- Executive Director zoltar@musicforapurpose.org

                  


 
 



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