Using fingertips, palms, elbows and up to three brushes in each hand, Brian paints portraits of famous people including musicians, sports figures, and top corporate heads on a four and a half by six foot canvas in just a matter of minutes. His creations are choreographed to music that is powerful and stimulates the senses. Brian's Art in... read full bio
Jean-Luc Ponty is an innovator and unparalleled virtuoso of violin in the genres of jazz and rock. He is renowned as a pioneer who has applied his unique visionary spin that has broadened the vocabulary of modern music. Besides recording and touring globally with his own group, Ponty has also performed some of his compositions with the New Music Ensemble... read full bio
Alex Mazo is a professional dancer, best known for winning the first mirror ball on Dancing with the Stars with Kelly Monaco. He is a five time US National Finalist. Alec has been in the movies Dance With Me and Curious Case of Benjamin Button and performed in commercials for “Kay Jewelers” and “iPod”. He was featured in the new... read full bio
The members of Street Corner Symphony are from all over the Southeast US, and are proud to call Nashville, TN their home base. The a cappella group was formed for the sole purpose of winning NBC's The Sing Off, where they became finalists. SCS brings a unique laid back southern soul, demonstrating notable influences from artists like Take 6 and... read full bio
Meredith Brooks is a singer/songwriter and guitarist. She emerged on the music scene when there were countless other female singer/songwriters all with something to say. Meredith Brooks determined to set herself apart, released the edgy track B***h". This single garnered her a nomination for the Grammy Award for Best Female Rock Vocal Performance. "B***h" became such a hit, it... read full bio
Jazz, funk, rock, gospel, blues and soul were cooked up together in the crucible of smoke filled rooms, simmered over the fire of pure down home grooves, and the combined alchemy created the Jazz Crusaders. It was the 1960's and the young Texans were breaking new ground with their signature horns, driving rhythms and the blues-funk style that identified their... read full bio
Avalon is Christian musics premier rock band. Together for over 15 years, sold more than three million albums, charted 20 number 1 singles, and won an American Music Award. Among other miscellaneous awards, the group has received three Grammy nominations and taken home six Dove Awards, the highest award for a Christian artist. They have released 12 projects, including one... read full bio
Tommy Johnagin an autobiographical story telling comedian who is a favorite at comedy clubs all across the country. In 2007 Tommy was invited to the prestigious “Just For Laughs” comedy festival in Montreal, Canada where he was the highest reviewed “New Face.” He has also appeared at Comedy Central’s “South Beach Comedy Festival”. His TV credits include: Four appearances... read full bio
"Jamie Alcroft was working as a disc jockey at a Florida radio station when he got a note from somebody named Mack Dryden suggesting they get together. ""You're one of the funniest men in town,"" read the note ""I'm the other one."" To make a wild and colorful story short, they worked up an act and hit the road... read full bio
Lacey Schwimmer is an American competitive ballroom dancer. She has made herself a household name from being on the hit dancing television shows So You Think You Can Dance and Dancing With the Stars. She began training and dancing competitively at a very young age. Lacey comes from a very talented dance family. Her parents are notable West Coast Swing... read full bio
Sweethearts of the Rodeo took country music by storm. Although the Sweethearts, sisters Janis Gill and Kristine Arnold, worked nearly 20 years for their ""overnight"" success, when it finally hit, it was, as Janis recalls, ""like a jet plane taking off--with us hanging onto the wings for dear life!"" With their first two albums spawning seven consecutive top 10 hits,... read full bio
Urge over kill is an American rock band from Chicago. They are best known for their hit song, Sister Havana. Their cover of Neil Diamond's "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon," which was notably used in Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction and soon got a cult following because of the film. Although they draped their quest for stardom... read full bio
As Executive Vice President of APA, Troy has helped to oversee the careers of many mainstream artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Robert Plant, Black Crows, Judas Priest, and Poison, as well as many independent artists, such as Sara Haze. Troy's thirty years in the business have made him one of the most sought after agents in Los Angeles and throughout... read full bio
Art Metrano is an American actor and comedian of Greek-Turkish-Jewish-Sephardic ancestry. Metrano may be best known for his role as Capt. Mauser in Police Academy 2 and Police Academy 3. He left the series due to a serious fall at home that seriously injured his spinal cord and left him disabled. Also known for his frequent appearances on The Tonight... read full bio
Sandi DuBowski is the director of the critically acclaimed documentary Trembling Before G-d. In his film, DuBowski intimately explores the ongoing struggle between the forces of sexuality, tradition, and religion focusing on the relationship between homosexuality and the Jewish faith. The powerful film has garnered awards such as The Mayor's Prize for the Jewish Experience at the Jerusalem Film Festival,... read full bio
Ken Glickman, born profoundly deaf, attended Clarke School for the Deaf in his native state of Massachusetts for 11 years. After graduating from Dartmouth College magna cum laude with High Distinction in Psychology , he joined IBM as a computer programmer and has taught programming and computer graphics. Ken left IBM to go solo" in the... read full bio
Lawrence Otis Graham is a nationally-known business author and advisor to companies and organizations on diversity and progressive strategies for managing a changing workplace. He is the author of, Proversity: Getting Past Face Value, a guide to improving the diverse workplace. He is also author of the New York Times bestseller, Our Kind of People: Inside Americas Black Upper Class,... read full bio
John Lescroart (pronounced ""less-kwah"") is a big believer in hard work and single-minded dedication, although he'll acknowledge that a little luck never hurts. Now a New York Times bestselling author whose books have been translated into 16 languages in more than 75 countries he is best known for two series of legal and crime thriller novels featuring the characters Dismas... read full bio
By learning more about women, Marti Barletta demonstrates how to increase your customer base, increase revenue per customer, and foster longer customer loyalty. Her most recent book, PrimeTime Women, focuses on the high-spending sweet spot of the market—Boomer women in their mid-life prime—and teaches marketers how to take advantage of this prime segment's growth, size, and purchasing power to propel... read full bio
Christine Day, a former Starbucks executive left the caffeinated coffee business to concentrate on a different type of awakening. Ms. Day was the CEO of Lululemon Athletica, which made a name for itself creating active wear for yogis from enlightened fabrics. She then became the CEO of Luvo Christine is a seasoned retail industry executive who has a proven... read full bio
