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Neil Portnow

(1948) Record Producer

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Neil Portnow is a record producer.

Quick Facts About Neil Portnow

Born: January 1, 1948
Profession: Record Producer

About Neil Portnow

[Wikidata] American music executive... | [Wikipedia] Neil R. Portnow is an American music industry executive who served as the chairman and CEO of The Recording Academy and MusiCares from 2002 to 2019. Prior to that, Portnow was the vice-president of the West Coast division of Jive Records and Arista Records.

Quotes by Neil Portnow

I support artistic freedom and always have.

Art

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Andy Wiliams' smooth voice and casual style turned the songs he sang into timeless classics and made him one of America's top…

America

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We live in a time of fake news - things that are made up and manufactured.

Fake

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The fact that there isn't a performance right [for the use of sound recordings on terrestrial radio] means there's hundreds of millions…

America

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Because U.K. artists aren't compensated when their music is played on U.S. radio stations, U.S. artists aren't compensated when their records are…

Art

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We as a music community have our own issues about advocacy, copyright, intellectual property, being paid fairly for the work that we…

Advocacy

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Sometimes you don't want to believe everything you hear.

Believe

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