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Are you a songwriter, composer or publisher and have written songs that have the potential to be used on radio, television, the internet, in restaurants and or any of the thousands of other businesses that use music, you've come to the right place.
Joining AWESOME is a critical step in your music career. You are about to begin a process that will make you a part of one of the fastest growing family in the world and, more importantly, we will ensure that you get paid when any businesses plays your song.
There is a one time, nominal processing fee of $300.00 to apply for AWESOME writer membership and $500.00 for AWESOME publisher membership, this fee is non-refundable, but there are no annual dues.
Synergy Entertainment Network Company Limited (Synergy TV) signs
copyright agreement with Awesome Limited.
On Tuesday 26th October 2010 Synergy Entertainment Network Company Limited
(Synergy TV) signed off on an agreement with Awesome Limited agreeing to pay
royalties for works used by Synergy TV within Awesome’s repertoire.
A songwriter since he was nine and a performer since his early teens, Richard "Chromatics" Raj-Kumar is no stranger to music, but more recently, the 27-year-old artiste/record label CEO and recording studio manager has been showing the local music industry exactly what he's made of and why they need to know his name.“This job doesn’t come with a pension plan. This is our pension – our royalties.”
Pensions may be set up for future needs but what they represent is security that is psychological as much as it is an actual dollar figure.
Chromatics (Richard Raj-kumar on his birth certificate), co-founder with Stuart Fortuné of Highway Records, is thinking about his pension plan. Arguably the country’s most successful hip-hop artiste, he’s also thinking about other things that most of the workforce, whether private or public sector; blue collar, white collar or shirt-jack, tend to take for granted. Like whether or not they’re going to be paid for the work they have done in the past month.
On 23 July, The Trinidad and Tobago Publishers and Broadcasters Association (TTPBA) decided that the services of the performer were no longer necessary. At least, they weren’t necessary if they had to be paid for.
While the Copyright Organisation of Trinidad and Tobago (COTT) remains the largest and most familiar of copyright agencies for local artistes, there are others. Awesome, headed by Sherwin Fortune is another. After discussions with both agencies, Highway Records chose the smaller outfit. One of Awesome’s significant advantages is its superior media tracking capabilities and accounting practices. Every time a song from Awesome’s playlist – any song, any artiste - hits the airwaves, it’s digitally logged. When it’s royalty pay-up time, the logs are squared with a given station’s own records.
Well it's been a few years since we've opened and we've moved from strength to strength. From the opening of the Store to release of "Chromatics" debut solo album "Against the Grain", to the opening of the studio and we just kept swinging. In just three years Highway records has transformed from something as fragile as an idea to an internationally recognised Recording Company with world class talent. Highway records has expanded it's troops by adding two Hip Hop artist "Lil Saint" and Kane along with two R&B Soul artist "John John" and "Andrew Prescod". Each at a different point in their career but all with the potential to headline on the biggest stages anywhere on the planet. For more detailed info on our artist please check http://www.reverbnation.com/label/highwayrecords Special shout to all the fans!!! ..
About PRADLAB
Pradlab is an acronym that literally stands for Planning, Risk, Association, Detachment, Limitation, Adaptation & Balance, representing seven basic principles of life.
The Pradlab website was started by its’ founder Kerron A. Noel in 2009. It was established for the purpose of:
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The word AWESOME is an acronym for Advancing Writers Entertainers Singers On Music Endeavours. It is located at 174 Eastern Main Road, Tunapuna, and managed by a Board of Directors. Using Media Monitoring, AWESOME has set out to do what no other copyright company has done locally, regionally or internationally by allowing members to see via our website what royalties are due to them on a daily basis.
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