Biography

World Music Pros Combines With Live Out Loud Music Publishing—Industry Veterans With a Strong Catalog of Original Music Available for Licensing!

Los Angeles, CA November 11, 2008—World Music Pros (WMP) is no newcomer to the music business. Founders, Craig Payne and Heidi Winer, have joined forces to bring their music industry experience to the forefront to provide many essential and hard-to-find services for Indie labels and artists, all under one roof and with the entire picture of the end result in mind. With sister company, Live Out Loud Music Publishing (LOLMP), they are making their mark by exposing their strong catalog to film and TV. WMP regularly sends out music samples from LOLMP’s catalog to their established alliances as well as to new entrants in film and TV.

Over the past 25 years Craig has delved into all facets of the music world as a publicist for Norman Winters & Associates, a staff writer for Warner Chappell Publishing/A&M Records, an artist manager for new and established artists, director of marketing for a Japanese-owned record label, production and tour manager for many platinum-selling recording artists, and managing partner of various corporations for the past ten or so years—Payne Artist Management, and now World Music Pros.

Heidi brings experience as an artist manager, artist consultant, and for the past several years, has been the managing partner of sister company, Live Out Loud Music Publishing, holding a catalog in excess of 100 songs. Both Heidi and Craig are accomplished songwriters, and together have written more than 40 tunes and have amassed a wealth of exceptional music in all genres, suitable for film & TV licensing as well as for use by major label artists, etc. As veterans of the international music markets, i.e., MIDEM, PopKomm, Mipcom and WOMEX, they are considered experts in this arena, having been in attendance for over ten years initiating and closing licensing, distribution, import/export, wholesale and sub-publishing agreements on behalf of their clients (artists), in order to garner name value and exposure for them, which in turn moves the artist to the next level.

Some of World Music Pros’ strongest services include working with indie labels and artists that desire to cost-effectively release their music, internationally and domestically, helping them to obtain increased name value and exposure, increase opportunities for touring, and to be able to sell records on a larger scale and ultimately make a living in this highly competitive business. With WMP’s high-level industry contacts, ability to maneuver in a quickly changing environment as well as their tenacity, they are poised to make a huge impact for their clients in the music industry.

For more information about World Music Pros, please visit their website at www.WorldMusicPros.com, or contact by email @ info@WorldMusicPros.com.

For more information please contact Jana Collins, with Jones & O’Malley Public Relations @ janajno@aol.com 818-762-8353.