Sports Endorsement Firm Eyes Music World - ABC News
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A small company that has opened the door for companies to quickly sign endorsement deals with top athletes is eyeing the music world as its next target market. Brand Affinity Technologies matches companies as large as Sony ...March 19, 2010
'Mr. World Music' Charlie Gillett Dies - Billboard Business News
Charlie Gillett, a champion of world music on BBC Radio 3 and the World Service, has died aged 68 after a long illness. His family confirmed to the BBC that he died Wednesday (March 17) in a London hospital. He contracted an autoimmune disease and ...March 18, 2010
SXSW – All Music Is World Music - World
The presence of international artists at the annual South by Southwest (SXSW) music conference in Austin, Texas has steadily grown in recent years. A few years ago, The World’s Marco Werman began wondering what made those musicians from around the ...March 14, 2010
World music DJ Charlie Gillett dies - Times Online
The radio DJ credited with discovering Dire Straits has died after a long illness. Charlie Gillett, presenter on BBC Radio 3 and World Service, passed away in a London hospital on Wednesday. He was 68. The Lancashire-born broadcaster, a big supporter ...March 18, 2010
Charlie Gillett: Broadcaster and author who championed ... - The Independent
Most of all, he was an early, fearless and constant champion of World Music – a term he helped coin at a meeting in a London pub in 1987 – and, since 2000, assembled beautifully-sequenced double CD overviews of the genre on a yearly basis.March 18, 2010
World music champion Charlie Gillett dies at 68 - KTNV
LONDON (AP) - Charlie Gillett, a DJ and music historian who helped bring music from around the world to wider attention, has died at the age of 68, his employer, the British Broadcasting Corp. said Thursday. The BBC said Gillett died in a London ...March 18, 2010
British DJ who championed world music Charlie Gillett ... - NEWS.com.au
Gillett played a demo tape of Sultans of Swing on his BBC London radio show in 1976, way before Mark Knopfler's guitar band became global stars. But during a long career on the BBC World Service and elsewhere he was known for championing world music ...March 18, 2010
Jewish World: Facing the music? - Jerusalem Post
A tour of the Museum of the Occupation in Latvia is coming under fire for not fully acknowledging local complicity in the massacres. RIGA, Latvia – In the heart of Riga’s picturesque Old Town stands a stark black rectangle, the Museum of the ...March 19, 2010
Charlie Gillett's World Of Music - BBC
It's the fourth week in which Charlie is looking at World Music hits; music that broke beyond its usual audience to reach the attention and tanatalise the ears of a brand new group of music lovers further afield. This week Charlie's journey starts ...March 13, 2010
World music broadcaster Charlie Gillett dies - BBC Entertainment
BBC presenter Charlie Gillett has died in hospital in London at the age of 68. He was known to millions of World Service listeners for his programme, Charlie Gillett's World of Music. In 2004 he presented a series called Sounds of the City, looking ...March 17, 2010
