SANTA BARBARA, CA (CelebrityAccess) — Eddie Rosenblatt, a veteran label government identified for his lengthy tenure at Geffen Information, died on July sixteenth. He was 89.

In accordance with a press release from his publicist, Rosenblatt handed at a hospital in Santa Barbara from issues of pneumonia.

A New York native, Rosenblatt attended Brooklyn School and did a stint within the U.S. Military within the Nineteen Fifties earlier than he relocated to Cleveland for his first music trade function at Cosnat Distribution, and later, Mainline Distribution, the place he met fellow music legends akin to Phil and Leonard Chess.

In 1967, Rosenblatt relocated to Los Angeles for a job as Gross sales Director at A&M Information. He went on to co-found the impartial label, TA Information with Steve Binder.

In 1971, Rosenblatt joined Warner Bros. Information as Director of Gross sales and helped to supervise the launch of WEA Distribution and was ultimately named Vice President of Gross sales and Radio Promotion.

9 years later, he joined with David Geffen to launch Geffen Information and served because the label’s first president, and helped to interrupt artists akin to Peter Gabriel, Quarterflash, and Whitesnake.

Following the sale of Geffen in 1990. Rosenblatt joined Geffen’s new venture, DGC, once more serving because the label’s first president. Rosenblatt was later named because the successor for DreamWorks SKG after Geffen introduced he was stepping down in 1995.

“For those who consider David because the imaginative and prescient behind Geffen Information, then Eddie is the guts. That label is not only worthwhile, it’s acquired hipness and warmth, and Eddie is the glue that has held it collectively all these years,” Warner Information Government Mo Ostin stated, in accordance with an obituary supplied by Rosenblatt’s publicist.

In 1998, amid the consolidation of the label trade, Rosenblatt stepped away from the label enterprise and relocated along with his spouse, Barbara “Bobbi” Rosenblatt, to Montecito, the place they engaged in native charitable actions, together with a job on the board of the non-profit outpatient Sansum Clinic.

Eddie is survived by his 4 kids, Michael, Steven, Peter, and Gretchen, six grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. His spouse Bobbi, to whom he was married for 68 years, handed away in 2023.

A memorial service continues to be to be deliberate and particulars can be shared with family and friends within the coming weeks. In lieu of flowers, the household requests that donations be made in Eddie’s reminiscence to the Sansum Clinic, a nonprofit healthcare group, at https://www.sansumclinic.org/donate-now.

SANTA ROSA, CA (CelebrityAccess) — Digital ticketing service True Tickets introduced a brand new partnership with the North Bay’s Luther Burbank Heart for the Arts (LBC).

Based in 1981, the 1,700-capacity LBC has established itself as one of many main arts and occasions facilities in Northern California, famous for its programming throughout music, theater, comedy, and dance, in addition to its academic and neighborhood packages.

Beneath the phrases of the take care of the LBC, True Tickets will present digital ticket supply together with lowered entry instances, entry management and different companies.

The deal is the most recent such settlement that True Tickets has secured within the performing artists world and follows related agreements with the Segerstrom Heart for the Performing Arts (Costa Mesa, CA), Geffen Playhouse (LA), Roundabout Theatre Firm (NYC), Boston Symphony Orchestra, Theatre Beneath The Stars (Houston), The Smith Heart for the Performing Arts (Las Vegas), Ballet Austin (Austin, TX), and the Heart Theatre Group (LA).

“We’re excited to work with Luther Burbank Heart for the Arts and help their mission of enriching the neighborhood by way of the humanities,” stated Ken Lesnik, Head of Enterprise Growth at True Tickets. “Our know-how will present their patrons with a seamless and safe ticketing expertise, serving to to make sure each go to to the Heart is as pleasing and memorable as doable.”

NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) — Splice, the royalty-free pattern repository, introduced the rent of music business veteran Kenny Ochoa for the position of Senior Vice President of Content material.

In his new position, Ochoa will oversee Splice’s international content material group as they work to broaden the corporate’s library of royalty-free samples, creating and sustaining relationships with artists and overseeing business outreach initiatives.

Ochoa will report on to Splice CEO Kakul Srivastava.

“It is a vital time in our business, so it was important that we discovered somebody with the relationships, style and fervour to assist us construct and put together for the way forward for music creation,” mentioned Splice CEO, Kakul Srivastava.
“Kenny is what we had been searching for, somebody with deep expertise of each the tech and music industries, who can also be empathetic to the creator neighborhood”.

Ochoa joins Spice from Snap the place he served as Head of Music Curation & Licensing, overseeing music programming and curation within the U.S. and different territories. His resume additionally consists of senior roles in Sync at Warner Bros. Information, Sony Music Leisure, and Sanctuary Information Group.

“I’m enthusiastic about the place music may go within the framework of a creator-first platform. Splice is already one of the vital talked about, ubiquitous instruments in manufacturing,” mentioned Ochoa. “Their success is fueled by their dedication to their catalog and the creator neighborhood. I’m thrilled to be working with Kakul and the wonderful group she’s assembled to construct instruments that can serve the subsequent technology of music creators all over the world.”