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| Mark Merrit Joins The Blue Pie Europe Country Music Team Blue Pie is excited to announce country legend Mark Merrit has joined our Europe Country Music Team. Mark was born in Virginia, raised in North Carolina and finished high school in Tennessee-a true "wild-eyed southern boy". His musical background started when he was twelve years old, playing clarinet and saxophone in school bands. At the age of fifteen, Mark started playing guitar and singing. After high school, Mark spent twelve years playing with military bands in Korea, Japan, Germany and the United States. Mark has also played several concerts backing infamous soul group "The Temptations" and working with many iconic acts over the years. Mark has had a successful career playing in Bands and performing solo for the last 28 years. Mark has worked with big-bands, Jazz combos, country and rock bands covering almost all genres of music. In 1996, Mark started his publishing company, Choo-Choo Seven Musik u. Verlag. Besides recording and marketing his own songs and CDs, Mark has also helped several bands and artists in securing P & D deals to release their own CDs. Mark has also helped songwriters find co-writers and has helped in placing songs with other artists. In 2009, Mark took over four independent labels: Amazing Records (Country), Castle Road Records (Jazz, Pop, Schlager, Singer/Songwriter), Blade Records (Rock, Hard Rock, Metal) and Country Lane Records (German Country and Bluegrass). Mark has been able to keep his artists in the European Country Charts as well as in the German and Austrian Independent Schlager Charts. Mark now joins the Blue Pie Europe Team to help grow and develop his label " Castle Road Records " with the help of the Blue Pie Global Partner Network. ABOUT BLUE PIE THE RECORD LABEL: Blue Pie, the record label, is one of Australia's leading independent labels. The label has a wide and diverse range of alliances, global partnerships and proprietary technology that we make available to all our artists, labels and content partners. These relationships combined with our technology, systems and infrastructure allow our artists and labels to reach new and exciting fan bases and markets globally. Blue Pie is proud to represent over 80 labels and over 1300 artists worldwide. Blue Pie's artists include: Total Karnage, The Devyl Nellys, 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, Tommy Tutone, Star Ship, Stephen Wrench, Hoss Howard, Todd Smallwood, 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: · Full Entertain Music USA (Blue Pie Label) · Out of the Box Records USA (Blue Pie Label) · Electrik Blue Records USA (Blue Pie Label) · Blue Pie USA (Blue Pie Label) · Prime Records USA · No Borders Records USA · Reality Entertainment (For Australian and New Zealand) · Globalev World Music · Deluxe Records (Michael Browning's Label) · Pride Music · Subsonic Records · Petrophonic Records · + Over 65 others. write your comments about the article :: © 2010 Jazz News :: home page |