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GEMS Awards Lifetime Achievement To Howard Bloom
from: globalentertainmentnetwork.com
New York, NY — The Global Entertainment & Media Summit (GEMS) will honor artist development genius Howard Bloom on Saturday, May 14th, with its first ever Lifetime Achievement Award for Commitment to Excellence for his outstanding contributions to music and film.
The Ceremony will take place at the Laugh Factory/Times Square Arts Center during GEMS two-day conference where a host of music, film and media industry leaders will gather and give tribute to one of their own.
Congratulations come from former colleagues in the music and media industry with whom Bloom worked as journalist, as first editor of Circus magazine, where he fell in love with rock 'n' roll, and later as head of one of the biggest star making PR Companies in the music business, The Howard Bloom Organization. As noted in Gear Magazine, he helped launch the careers of nineteen year olds like Prince and JOAN JETT, and built enduring careers for folks, who were finding their way — John Mellencamp and Billy Idol, and worked with Billy Joel, Aerosmith, and Queen. Bloom is also credited with saving Prince's mega-movie hit "Purple Rain" from being cancelled by Warner Brothers. Bloom also helped put ZZ Top, John Mellencamp, Styx, REO Speedwagon, and Run DMC on the map.
Bloom gained a reputation for picking artists at the outset of their careers at the expense of established names. As noted in Gear, "Howard was remarkable," says Bob Cavallo, Prince's Manager at the time, and later the chairman of the Buena Vista Group and President of Hollywood Records. He got the press to understand Prince as the genius he was rather than simply a sex-crazed R&B guy.
Another example is JOAN JETT. Bloom said, Joan is like family. After rejection by 23 record companies, he built her up to double platinum in eighteen months and established her identity as a powerful, self-motivated, independent woman. This was the late 1970's, at a time when the number of working mothers was shifting to a majority. "Joan had a strong influence, as a media role model, on shaping identity for a generation of young girls, by simply being her self," Bloom noted. This year marks the 25th Anniversary Reunion of the original JOAN JETT & The Black Hearts Band.
GEMS Founder Steve Zuckerman said, "I love the man and respect him enormously as a colleague and friend. He's always been there for me. He helped me and many artists through professional and personal crises and offered his creative genius every step of the way."
Bloom has overcome a longtime illness and busy working on current projects that span motivational speaking to corporations, executive coaching, journalism and fostering creative competition. True to Howard Bloom' innovation he's setting up the foundation Cultureshift: International Center for Challenge to Government, Science and Media to make the public more aware of the issues and provide leadership in taking social action. His forthcoming book is Reinventing Capitalism: Putting Soul in the Machine.
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