Mojo Music and Media has acquired rights to the catalogs of six totally different hitmakers: Warren Cuccurullo, Geraldo Sandell (Teddy Sky), Bruce Belland, Omar Lyefook, and two members of the pop band Metro Station.
A music writer and model/legacy administration agency with workplaces throughout 4 continents, Mojo is house to a various catalog of greater than 20,000 compositions, together with shares of songs recorded by everybody from Frank Sinatra to Aretha Franklin to George Strait.
Its new additions embrace works by Cuccurullo, a songwriter and guitarist who began his profession with Frank Zappa earlier than co-founding Missing Persons and becoming a member of Duran Duran. The deal entails Cuccurullo’s total share of his author and publishing rights in addition to artist royalties and neighboring rights. As a part of Missing Persons, he helped pen songs like “Words,” “Mental Hopscotch” and “Destination Unknown,” and as a member of Duran Duran he contributed to “Bruning the Ground,” “Ordinary World,” “Come Undone” and “Violence of Summer.” Additionally, Mojo has additionally signed a take care of Cuccurullo to handle and promote his solo work.
Mojo additionally acquired your entire publishing and songwriter pursuits within the catalog of Sandell, who’s finest identified for “On The Floor” by Jennifer Lopez and Pitbull, “Down For Whatever” by Kelly Rowland and extra.
The indie publishing home’s acquisition of Belland’s work included his full songwriter and publishing rights and recorded music royalties. Belland is finest often called the lead singer of The Four Preps, a four-part concord troupe he co-founded in 1956. During their nine-year run, Belland and the band made hits like “26 Miles (Santa Catalina)” and “Big Man,” together with “Down By The Station,” “Got A Girl” and “A Letter To The Beatles,” and Belland additionally wrote singles for different common artists on the time, together with Barron Knights, Lee Hazelwood and Lutricia McNeal.
Lyefook, the English neo-soul artist and songwriter, bought his full author’s share and majority of his writer’s share to Mojo. His songs “There’s Nothing Like This,” “Outside,” “Keep Steppin,” “Saturday” and “Say Nothin,” turned main hits within the U.Ok. through the Nineties, resulting in collaborations between Lyefook and American singers like Lamont Dozier, Leon Ware, Angie Stone and Stevie Wonder.
Lastly, Mojo has additionally purchased rights to the catalog of Metro Station members Blake Healy and Anthony Improgo, together with the late aughts hit “Shake It” and follow-up single “Seventeen Forever.”
“As we approach our fifth anniversary, we are deeply honored that our success in thoughtfully promoting veteran songwriters and their songs continues to attract some of the most influential music makers in the world to our Mojo family,” says the corporate’s co-founder and CEO Mark Fried. “The Mojo catalog, now representing nearly 700 chart hits, including 250 Top 10’s spanning nine decades, is proudly one of the most diverse and hit-laden collections in the indie publishing space. We couldn’t be more excited to be representing Warren, Teddy, Bruce, Omar, Blake and Ant’s collective works, still beloved by fans everywhere, and look forward to re-energizing them via everything from faithful covers and genre-busting interpolations to trailerized remixes, ubiquitous syncs and guerilla social media campaigns.”
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