{"id":5378,"date":"2015-07-08T13:45:11","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/buddy-hollys-timeless-catalogue-to-bmg\/"},"modified":"2015-07-08T13:45:11","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T13:45:11","slug":"buddy-hollys-timeless-catalogue-to-bmg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2015\/07\/08\/buddy-hollys-timeless-catalogue-to-bmg\/","title":{"rendered":"Buddy Holly\u2019s Timeless Catalogue To BMG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/1\/14\/Buddy_Holly_cropped.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"218\" height=\"192\" \/><br \/>The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation is pleased to announce that  Board Member and Co-Founder Maria Elena Holly has selected BMG as the  new home for Buddy Holly\u2019s music and caretaker of his legacy. Maria Elena Holly has dedicated her life to ensuring Buddy\u2019s legacy  would be remembered with integrity and love. Maria Elena said, \u201cFor  almost 60 years, Buddy\u2019s loving fans and I have worked to bring his  creativity to successive generations of fans and I have been looking for  a steward to lead those efforts into the future, and I am very happy to  announce that I have entrusted Buddy\u2019s legacy to BMG.\u201d   <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The Foundation, its Board and members are delighted that Maria Elena  Holly has chosen BMG, a well-respected international music and media  company for this role.  BMG convinced Maria Elena that they understand  the importance of Buddy\u2019s legacy.  Maria Elena believes that BMG has the  passion and the resources to continue to serve Buddy\u2019s fans, and also  to bring Buddy\u2019s incomparable artistry to a wider audience including a  new generation of fans. The deal signals the union of one of the most  distinguished and influential catalogues in popular music history with  one of the most innovative and fastest-growing companies in music, BMG.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Bradley, Sr., Chairman and Co-Founder of the Foundation Board,  said \u201cOn behalf of true Buddy Holly fans everywhere, I send love and  grateful thanks to Maria Elena for her fifty-six years of tireless  devotion to protecting her beloved Buddy\u2019s legacy. BMG and Maria Elena  have very exciting plans for the future of Buddy\u2019s music and legacy, and  the Foundation will be keeping you updated as events unfold.\u201d<br \/> The Foundation is also pleased to announce that Laurent Hubert,  President Creative &amp; Marketing, BMG for North America, a leader in  the music publishing business, has agreed to serve on the Board of The  Buddy Holly Educational Foundation.  Board Member Peter Bradley, Jr.  said \u201cWe are delighted that Mr. Hubert has agreed to serve on the  Foundation Board and share in its twin missions to promote Buddy\u2019s  legacy and support his and Maria Elena\u2019s dream of furthering musical  education for young people, regardless of creed, ethnicity or income  level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Hubert said \u201cBuddy Holly is truly one of the founding fathers of  rock and roll. What is all the more extraordinary is that he completed  this tremendous body of work by the time he was twenty-two. Maria Elena  and his fans can be assured that BMG and I take our responsibility to  preserve and develop the Buddy Holly legacy extremely seriously.  I am  so pleased that I will be able to assist the Foundation in accomplishing  its important goals of promoting Buddy\u2019s legacy and encouraging musical  education.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Easley, Counsel to the Foundation said \u201cAs a part of this  deal, BMG will contribute to several of the Foundation\u2019s efforts,  including sponsorship of the Foundation\u2019s songwriting retreats, which  benefit the next generation of songwriters who look to Buddy Holly for  inspiration. BMG will also endow a university scholarship in Buddy\u2019s  name.\u201d\u2028 \u2028Maria Elena Holly closed by saying \u201cI am so happy that BMG\u2019s  efforts will now allow me to devote more time and energy to my role as a  Board Member of The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation.  The Foundation  Directors and its members look forward to sharing that next chapter  with this great lady.<\/p>\n<p>Source: http:\/\/www.tbhef.org<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Buddy Holly Educational Foundation is pleased to announce that Board Member and Co-Founder Maria&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5378"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5378\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}