PRESS RELEASE - EFFECTIVE IMMEDIATELY – 29th October 2011
BLUE PIE FORMS A PARTNERSHIP WITH “ BEYOND STARS ENTERTAINMENT” AND THE STARS ALL BEGIN TO SHINE
Sydney – 29th October 2011 – Effective Immediately – Blue Pie announces a new strategic alliance with “Beyond Stars Entertainment”. The new venture will focus on the development of a world-class roster of new and established iconic URBAN artists for the world to enjoy.
Beyond Stars Entertainment and their new Record Label have big plans and ideas to take to the market and a solid and industry proven team behind them to deliver these ideas and plans to the global music market using Blue Pie Entertainments digital infrastructure. As part of the new venture both Quincy Taylor and David Ford will be appointed as the joint global heads of “Urban New Talent Development Team” at Blue Pie Records USA.
From the acquisition of Major Recording Acts to bringing some of the USA’s highest profile elite sporting Athletes to develop and promote the labels products, systems, catalogues and music industry consumer loyalty programs.
The Beyond Stars Executive team and founders comprises of Mr. David Ford and Mr. Quincy Taylor. Together they provide the company with over 50 years of entertainment industry experience that includes, touring, promotion, marketing, production and artist management.
As Damien Reilly, Blue Pie’s CEO says: “Blue Pie is honored to be able to facilitate and provide Beyond Stars Entertainment (BSE)with the technology and systems to allow the great opportunity for the team at BSE to bring the best talent from USA Urban markets to to center stage at BSE for their music to be distributed, exploited and develop new markets with Blue Pie’s global digital distribution footprint. We are looking forward to creating a historic new artist platform with BSE and decades of success”
Beyond Stars Entertainment is more than a one-dimensional label! The company identifies and recognizes that the new music industry requires new technology and systems to be able to compete in the new digital markets today. Markets change quickly in the digital age. The rapid change in the digital music industry landscape in the past 10 years means that traditional record labels and many established iconic artists have not been able to adapt quickly enough to provide sustained income streams. Many record labels have made massive cutbacks with no solutions being offered to increase and to develop new markets and business. This is where Beyond Stars Entertainment and Blue Pie’s digital infrastructure are able to offer real hope, real change and real revenues in a market that has a non stop demand for solutions to help combat the onslaught of declining traditional bricks and mortar revenue streams, reduced license fees for synch placements and reduce touring fees.
Beyond Stars Entertainment Provides their Labels and Artists with:
- Accounting and Royalty reporting + management systems and software for digital income, touring and third party income streams within the music industry today.
- Business models that provide record label owners and stockholders with the opportunity to develop increasing revenue streams and to develop new profit models.
- Direct access to approved record labels to Blue Pie’s major label partners and relationships to help reduce risk and to offer great marketing and promotional opportunities.
- Transparency in all dealing on all levels.
The company motto in the new digital entertainment age is “adapt of die”.
The process of “rebrand, restructure, and renew” is managed with the highly experienced and industry proven business teams of Blue Pie, Blue Pie Entertainment, Blue Pie Productions and Blue Pie’s creative agency “ Magic Blue Creative”
The music industry today is in chaos and this is opportunity on a large scale for Beyond Stars Entertainment. The multitude of opportunities is limitless from major artist, athletes and labels to take advantage of through the new strategic alliance with Blue Pie and the Blue Pie group of companies and partners.
ABOUT BEYOND ENTERTAINMENTS FOUNDERS:
MR QUINCY “Q” TAYLOR
Quincy Taylor started working within the music industry in promotions in 2001 with Landspeed
Records based out of Boston MA. In 2003 Quincy became the promotions manager for “ Big Proof of the Multiplatinum Group D12 “ and Shady Records.
In 2004 Quincy began ITW Marketing, a boutique firm specializing in brand awareness for clients including EA Sports, T Mobile, Toyota Scion, Jump Mobile, Cricket Communications, & more.
In 2005 Quincy became the Ohio Valley Representative for E1 Music (Koch Records), working on the global brand development for leading artists including Jim Jones, BG(formally of Cash Money), Slim Thug, Obie Trice, Dj Khaled and More.
Quincy has established himself as a leader in the world of touring and promotion. In 2010 Quincy developed new markets for his clients with extensive retail promotion, tastemaker events, radio interviews, and concert performances that has allowed Quincy to have non stop continuous growth for all of this businesses and clients. In 2011 Quincy was appointed as the Vice President of “ Nerve Djs”, a midwest based dj group specializing in radio, club, online promotions, and building relationships between artists, music, and djs. This experience lead to the creation and birth of the Ohio Hip Hop Awards & Music Conference, a ceremony geared towards Creating awareness for the Ohio and great North American Entertainment Industry
Quincy Taylor is the CEO and Co-Founder of Beyond Stars Entertainment. His global network and market leading proven business development and sales experiences provides the company with a market leading edge. This combined with Blue Pie’s systems spells global success for Quincy’s newest and latest venture “ Beyond Stars Entertainment”
MR DAVID FORD
David has been in the music industry for over 20 years. He is self-taught and his business and sales skills have been developed from the ground up. In early 2000 David developed his own studio called “ 3D Recording Studio” located at the Randall Park Mall in Cleveland, OH. The studio built strong market connections with leading entertainment brands including Warner Bros, Warner Music, Rock Ridge Music and several others.
David has built a database of over 10,000 plus independent artists that AIN provides education and music information services to on a daily basis. He is a passionate man that believes in education and developing strong role models in an industry that is known for dangerous past times, is the key to success. As David says: “ The goal in business to me is to build a brand not just talent. Talent can become stale but a brand can adapt and change with market conditions, constantly reinventing itself. Adapt of die is my motto.
As the Business Development Director, David manages and oversees the global expansion of Beyond Stars Entertainments brand. Developing new market relationships to sign iconic artists and new talent to the label, David draws on his market knowledge, proven systems and the powerful software that Blue Pie provides Beyond Stars Entertainment. David is a passionate individual that believes that if you find what you love doing and to do this the best that you can then you will never work a day in you life.
David holds business development + board roles with:
- Beyond Stars Entertainment - Business Development + A & R Urban Artist Development.
- Blue Pie Records USA – Business Development + A & R Urban Artist Development.
- The Artist In Need Foundation - AIN Distribution – Founder and Director
ABOUT BEYOND STARS ENTERTAINMENT:
Beyond Stars Entertainment is more than a one-dimensional label! The company identifies and recognizes that the new music industry requires new technology and systems to be able to compete in the new digital markets today. Beyond Stars Entertainment and Blue Pie’s digital infrastructure are able to offer real hope, real change and real revenues in a market that has a non stop demand for solutions to help combat the onslaught of declining traditional bricks and mortar revenue streams, reduced license fees for synch placements and reduce touring fees.
Founded by two industry visionaries, Mr David Ford and Mr Quincy Taylor, Beyond Stars Entertainment has developed industry leading market relationships and partners that provides the firms artists and labels with the capacity to adapt and change to the ever changing digital entertainment global markets. With systems, technology and a global network of some of the worlds best and most proven industry executives, Beyond Stars Entertainment delivers profits and increased revenue streams to the companies labels and artists through the reducing activity and increasing focus on core business activities. The company believes in the motto of “ The right person for the right job at the right time and all times”
ABOUT BLUE PIE THE RECORD LABEL:
Blue Pie, the record label, is one of Australia’s leading independent labels. Founded in the early 90’s by Damien Reilly, the label has a wide and diverse range of alliances, global partnerships and proprietary technology that it makes available to all the companies artists, labels and content partners. These relationships combined with Blue Pie Productions, technology, systems and infrastructure allows Blue Pie’s artists and labels to reach new and exciting fan bases and markets globally, increase their profits and most of drive and develop new revenues.
Blue Pie is proud to represent over 200 labels and over 3000 artists worldwide.
Blue Pie's artists include:
Bleek, The Devyl Nellys, Dale Bozzio, Dave Sharp, Serge Ermoll (ARIA Winner), Tony Hatch (Grammy Winner), Gordon Chambers (Grammy Winner), Janice Marie (Grammy Winner) Dave Evans (AC/DC), The Yeehaa Boys, Snake Eyes Seven, Star Ship, John Enghauser, Evolution Eden, JP Ranger, Burning the Day, Sarah Saunders, the bLEED, Barry Crocker, Gordon Waller, Sheva, MLU, Dino Jag, and The Judes and to name a few.
Blue Pie’s label roster includes:
- Electrik Blue Records USA (Blue Pie Label)
- Blue Pie USA (Blue Pie Label)
- Prime Records USA
- Rock Forever Records
- Reality Entertainment (For Australian and New Zealand)
- Globalev World Music
- Deluxe Records (Michael Browning’s Label)
- Pride Music
- Subsonic Records
- Sharkarts
- + Over 200 others. See our website for details.
Search on 'blue pie' in Google for more information.
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For more information:
Contact:
Press and Media Manager
Blue Pie
Unit 20 No 112 McEvoy Street
Alexandria NSW 2015
P: + 61 2 9310 0155
F: + 61 2 9310 0166
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