Thanks God for my parents
My blessing are abundant because of my parrents belief and insight..They bought my first newbass guitar. A Fender Perssion Bass,on there megar salary back then thatwas like spending a thousandbucks. They witness me convert a lead guitar into a bass , they investedtherehard earn dollars from cleaning house and Pops working two janitorial jobsGrowing up poor in Cinti, Oh. was not easy but they made it happen for me,, I never could repay them enough untill i saw my moms face light up a few days befor her death when she saw me on tv..2005 .. they are booth gone but not forgotten and i miss themeveryday.
Every artist performs for many reasons. One of those reasons is to make a little money. No matter if you are on a major label or no label at all, you can get paid if your music is played on the radio,television orin a movie, etc. As many of you know, there are originations that pay songwriters and copyright holders of songs. They are quite well known:BMI, ASCAP and SEASAC. If you write your own music or know someone who does, you or they, more than likely, belong to one or more of the mentioned originations. First, you or they must sign up and register.
Now, let's say you perform a song but you did not write any of the music or lyrics to that song, are you SOL? (oops sorry, forgot that this is a family site!) The answer to that question is NO! If that is the case, what is an artist to do? There is another origination out there that is JUST for artists who perform on a song that gets played on the radio, television or in a movie, etc. That origination is a non profit origination called "Sound Exchange." I am guessing that you are asking yourself,"who is Sound Exchange and how can they help me GET PAID?"
Just as the songwriters and copyright holders have originations such asBMI, ASCAP, SEASAC, Sound Exchange is for the artists that do the actual performances. Radio stations report to the big three as well as Sound Exchange. That means if your name is John Doe and you sing a song written by John Q. Public (who is registered with BMI) and that song gets ANY kind of airplay, then it is reported to BMI and Sound Exchange.
If you are registered with Sound Exchange then you will get money each time that song plays! There is now well over 7,000 artists signed and unsigned that have some money waiting for them uncollected. All that is required to getthis money is to register! Where is the catch you ask? There is none, because the registration fee is zip, zilch, natta- nothing at all.It istotallyFREE to sign up can collect your money. It's that easy.
