Marina

Marina's Commentary on the state of Dance Music By: Marina Dance music, huh? Dance music! You like dance music? I LOVE dance music, twenty-five years of dance music, finally got a category in the Grammys. What happened?! Why such a low role call of submissions from this community? Well most of dance musics so-called professionals found every excuse in the world why not to participate. Whats the point? Who cares? The DJs dont get to vote anyway!........ And on, and on...........EHH!! (Buzzer) Stop!!! Thank you for playing (no pun intended). Guess what folks the DJs are not the ones, for the most part, creating the music. There is something called an artist. Well look I know, I know there isnt much artistry happening in dance music these days you might say. Now, maybe thats true. Well, possibly, thats because the real artists cant penetrate the grotesque cycle that dance music now appears to be spinning (Ha! Ha!). How many truly talented artists have slipped through the fingers of the elite sleazy circle that envelops our dance music industry. How can characters that appear to be directly spun out of a Scorcese movie hope to recognize a brilliant writer? How can an office administrator, now A&R, hope to recognize the talent and work it takes to be able to pick a song out of the air, write it, sing it, breath life into it and then share it with an audience. No way! Now the way I see it the record industry is about selling records, right? Well honey, no record label these days is gonna get rich off selling vinyl. Now unless these DJs and record labels get hip to that theyre just going to shoot each other in the foot. Lets start again shall we?! Didnt we already go through Milly/ Vanilly?? It starts with a song. Then its about the song and whos delivering it. The marriage of the artist and the material. We, especially in this country, are in an extremely visual age. Yet, why is a culture, the dance culture especially, priding itself on "The cool factor, clubs man.......", still in the dark ages. Get with it baby! Remember the power of television, the power of the media in general. Remember MTV, VH-1......., lets see the song! Lets see the artist!! Years ago we had performers! They made records in addition to dancing, in addition to acting. It was called a triple threater folks! Amazing that a form of music as visually and actively named as Dance music cannot recognize the importance of bringing a great performer in front of the public to sell the music. After all someone who has $15 to spend on one CD in Boisey, Idaho has surely never heard of Junior V., or Danny T. Sadly enough, theyve probably never heard of Gina G.. Have you? This year an entertainer was brought back to the forefront again to remind us of the power that a celebrity can hold. CHER FEVER! "Believe", Sonny & Cher re-runs, a book, a movie, WOW! Im a believer! Cher at age 53 proves to those in the record business, that a truly talented artist is ageless. Help us dance community. We want our Chers, our Bettes, and our Barbras! We want Liza with a Z! Patti LaBelle with a P! Where are the performers? Where are our dance artists?! When are the record labels going to understand that artistry needs to be nurtured and paid for? After all dancing for Grandma was expensive! Ballet twice a week, one day jazz, one day tap. How else could an aspiring, performing, attention-suck acquire the skills necessary in which to woo an audience. And we want to be wooed. Boy, do we ever! We crave it, fantasize to it! "Give us what we want, what we really, really want"! No, not the Spice Girls, not the Funky Green Dogs, not DJ Company!! We want the real stuff! Someone who we think we know. Someone who comes into our living rooms and explodes on the screen into song and dance in one moment, and then can turn and deliver a tune that wrenches the heart in another. Someone who represents the fashions and the voice of our times. Someone controversial but caring, fantastic yet human. Where are the stars? Where are our Judys, our Freds & Gingers, our Michaels, even Madonna. Where are the dancers? Dance music, huh? Dance music. You like dance music? I love dance music!!

MARINA - Bio 12-1-99 MARINA is a woman of the new millennium: powerful, beautiful, dynamic in her roles as a top-charting dance music diva, acclaimed choreographer, and mother of three. This artist/producer is also a classically trained multi-instrumentalist (violin, keyboards, voice), professional dancer, trend-setter, and co-owner (with her husband) of an 11,000 sq. ft state-of-the-art TV/radio advertising production company in Midtown Manhattan, Kamen Entertainment Group/MRK Records. From famed director Cecil B. DeMilles lavishly-appointed former office overlooking Times Square, MARINA and associate producer Tony Marinello (previously with Bobby O -- best known for his work with the Pet Shop Boys and Jellybean Benitez) are creating a high energy - world-friendly sound for the radio of the fast approaching next century. MARINA is a regular on the charts, with 7 singles under her belt. And now, shes about to break out with her full length, all original, debut album "Um Lotty Da". This blonde, feline-ish pop-songstress is an exception amongst her peers. She is not just a singer, not just a songwriter, not just a dancer, MARINA is a successful mother and businesswoman who morphed from 200 pounds into the dynamo she is today. Through fitness programs, weight control, and the miracles of modern technology, MARINA is as fit today as she was at 20 when she spent her nights dancing at Studio 54 and CBGBs. "In a lot of ways," she confesses, "the music I am creating today is reminiscent of the driving beats and irresistible hooks of the best songs from that period." Marina started dance at 4, added violin and piano at age 7, and then went on to study opera and violin at the prestigious Manhattan School of Music. She pursued a career as a singer/dancer/actress, supplementing her income by teaching aerobics at Body Design By Gilda. She met her partner for life, recording engineer Roy Kamen, at The Music House, a major music/audio production studio in NYC. Soon the two launched their own studio, Kamen Entertainment Group, Inc., which opened in 1987. Over the years, MARINA has written, cast, and produced thousands of commercials, often doing voiceovers and jingles for companies including Snickers Ice Cream, Footlocker, Coty Stetson, Cherry Coke and VH1. This unique opportunity allows MARINA to work with some of the best studio musicians, singers, and actors that New York City has to offer. The best part is at the end of the day; she goes home to her three beautiful children, ages 6, 8 and 13.

I love performing. And the bigger the better. I cast from the largest talent pool in the world - New York City's broadway dancers. I've performed at all of the areas largest clubs and have done quite a few large outdoor concerts. I also am airing a TV show on cable

Annie lennox, Bette Midler, Cher, Barbera Streisand, Madonna

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