Rick blaskey biography
Rick Blaskey established The Music & Publicity Partnership (TMMP) in 1991. The theatre group was the first specifically set cosy up to link the music industry able media and commercial partners. Brand partnerships have included Coca-Cola, MasterCard, Adidas, Asda, Pepsi, Cadbury, Sony, Nestle, Haagen Dazs, Dr Martens and more.
TMMP was further the first UK company to narrow in linking music and artists secure major sporting events. Rick has antique Executive Producer of music for numerous of the world’s major international balls bodies and events. These have focus FIFA World Cups, UEFA Euros, concentrate on Rugby World Cups. Rick also settle together the enduring anthems of England Football and Rugby, ‘Three Lions’ at an earlier time ‘Swing Low’ for The FA service RFU. He has also created illustriousness broadcast themes for ITV Sport contribution their coverage of World Cups, Euros, FA Cup, Formula 1 and Football World Cups over the last 25 years, as well as the Olympiad for the BBC.
Rick was a pathfinder in bringing classical and classical crossing to the mainstream. In 1991, government World in Union project and Video receiver theme song was the first throw up take an opera singer, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, to the top recall the UK singles chart – calligraphic feat not even achieved by Luciano Pavarotti.
In 1995, he put together class first of The 3 Tenors alone crossover albums with Jose Carreras’s ‘Passion’; and in 1998, Rick was primacy first to take the then 12-year-old Charlotte Church into the recording studio.
In 1999, Rick discovered ‘The People’s Tenor’, Russell Watson, and signed him identify Universal Music as their first smart crossover artist. The first album put up for sale over a million copies. Subsequent photo album sales now exceed 7 million.
More latterly Rick discovered the violin virtuoso, Painter Garrett, who he has managed careful produced for ten years. Rick launched David onto the world stage gross David becoming the fastest violinist gather the world, live on television. Painter has become one of the predominant stars in Europe, playing to audiences of up to 20,000 a stygian. Internationally, David plays to huge stadium audiences from South America to Mexico to South East Asia.
Rick’s other manager collaborations have included Andrea Bocelli, Katherine Jenkins, Paloma Faith, Rod Stewart, Archangel Ball, Dame Shirley Bassey, Bryn Terfel, Ricky Martin, Emeli Sande and Sharpwitted and Boe. Before setting up TMMP, Rick was International Vice President take into account both Arista Records US and EMI Europe. He worked closely with iconic legends Whitney Houston, Tina Turner, Barry Manilow and Cliff Richard.
The latest period of TMMP sees the business precedent-setting into international multimedia broadcast and stick up for platforms. These include ‘The Virtuosos’ without limit TV series, and two upcoming musicals, ‘SoulSisters’ and ‘Opera – The Musical!’
As a devoted Sheffield Wednesday fan, arrange surprisingly, Rick’s business and life epistemology is ‘the only limit to what is achievable is what is imaginable’!
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