Nashville-born Derek Wells is a first-call multi-instrumentalist, producer, music publisher and two-time Academy of Country Music Award winner. For singers such as Maren Morris, Blake Shelton, Shakira, Kenny Chesney, Scotty McCreery, Carrie Underwood, P!nk, Kid Rock, Florida Georgia Line, Dan + Shay, Kelsea Ballerini, Lady Antebellum, Morgan Wallen and Thomas Rhett, Wells has been credited on over 70 #1 hits. Wells was the... read full bio
Jenee Fleenor, the CMA Musician of the Year, is a multi-instrumentalist, singer and composer who has won several awards. Her fiddle playing is her main source of fame. Originally from Springdale, Arkansas, Jenee is presently shattering stereotypes in Nashville as the first female CMA Musician of the Year nominee in history. (Jenee also won the ACM's Specialty Instruments Player of... read full bio
Sammy Johnson, often known as Sammy J, is an Australian who uses his Polynesian and Maori heritage to inspire and encourage others via his music. Sammy's music is invigorating and captivating, fusing passionate lyrics with tropical reggae, soul, and jazz moods. Sammy, who is now located in the United States, seems to have taken off in the market, selling... read full bio
As the CEO and founder of The Lion Academy, Dion Jensen is a worldwide influencer who embodies the principles of trauma, transition and evolution. After traveling this path as a soldier, police officer and close protection operator, he founded Success For Soldiers, a global initiative to combat PTSD and suicide. After helping individuals overcome trauma, Dion was recruited to work as the Regional... read full bio
American electrical engineer Robert Kahn collaborated with Vinton Cerf to design the Internet as one of its primary architects. The A.M. Turing Award, the greatest accolade in computer science, was given to Kahn and Cerf for their groundbreaking work on internetworking, which included creating and implementing TCP/IP, the foundational communications protocol of the Internet, as well as for their outstanding... read full bio
Nearly thirty years had passed since Michael Learns To Rock started a band in an old, abandoned freezer room that they used as a rehearsal space. Not long later, the band performed at their very first event in their hometown of Aarhus, Denmark. Numerous timeless tunes have been played on global radio stations and online platforms ever since. Millions of records... read full bio
The Neighbourhood's singer-songwriter-producer, Jesse Rutherford, has inked a solo record deal with Atlantic Records. Resuming operations under the moniker Jesse®, "Joker" and "Rainbow" are two of their new tunes. These tracks mark the artist's debut releases under his new standalone label, Atlantic Records.... read full bio
Christian Vincent is a Canadian-American dancer, choreographer, actor, and model, best known for being a dancer or choreographer for films such as, “Starsky & Hutch”, “Rent”, “Walk Hard: The Dewey Cox Story”, “Miss Congeniality 2”, and the dance instructor for “The Shape of Water”. He has also been a dancer on television series such as “Suddenly Susan”, “Nikki”, and more.... read full bio
Comedian Mark Normand is a fun-loving native of New York. Mark has so far appeared in six episodes of TBS's CONAN, the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, the Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Showtime's "Live at SXSW," Inside Amy Schumer, TruTv, Best Week Ever, MTv, Last Comic Standing, @Midnight and a Comedy Central half-hour special called "Don't Be Yourself." Additionally, he... read full bio
Up until 2000, Andrei Kozyrev served as both the Russian Federation's foreign minister and a member of the Duma, the country's legislature. He agreed to join the board of directors of ICN Pharmaceuticals, a US company, and has since joined the boards of several Russian and foreign businesses. At the Moscow Institute of International Relations, he teaches. Andrei holds a PHD... read full bio
Among the greatest creators of the modern era is Ray Kurzweil. He was the primary developer of the first omni-font optical character recognition system, the first print-to-speech reading device for the blind, the first text-to-speech synthesizer and the first CCD flat-bed scanner. Along with designing the first commercially available large-vocabulary speech recognition system, he also built the first music synthesizer that... read full bio
Baroness Susan Greenfield, CBE, is a British scientist who specializes in brain physiology. She studies how the brain creates awareness, the effects of modern technologies on the mind and innovative treatments for neurodegenerative illnesses like Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. After completing her DPhil in the Department of Pharmacology at Oxford University, Baroness Greenfield went on to work as a researcher at NYU Medical... read full bio
Poet and professor of German literature Gertrud Höhler has won numerous honors. She has become Germany's most well-known management expert during the past several years. Since 1987, Gertrud has served as an independent businesswoman, consultant to the top fifty German-speaking corporations, and advisor to many of the elite, including the head of Deutsche Bank. She joined the GrandMet board in the... read full bio
Boleros De Noche, an annual celebration of bolero music from Latin America, returns to The Ford, attracting audiences of all ages and dubbed "a bolero revival in LA" (Al Borde). La Marisoul, a native of Los Angeles, is the leading vocalist for La Santa Cecilia which garnered admirers and a Grammy prize. With an 18-piece big band orchestra, Marisoul's latest bolero... read full bio
Hatsune Miku, a 16-year-old blue-haired girl with a distinctive voice and extraordinary energy, is a Japanese music sensation. Her unique quality lies in the fact that she is a virtual character that performs on stage using 3D images and a computer-generated voice instead of a real singer. She is the first totally crowd-created virtual talent, with a repertory that is wholly... read full bio
Zoé is a five-piece Mexican band who won both the Grammy and the Latin Grammy for its catchy, psychedelic rock sound and catchy rock and pop tunes. They are considered as one of the most influential bands of the indie rock era. The band reached the pinnacle of the rock en español industry in the late 2000s and their first of... read full bio
Early songs "Space Ranger" and "Koi Moyo" showcased the anthemic, pop-friendly punk rock sound of the all-female Japanese rock band Scandal. They later took their music to a wider audience with their major-label debut, Best Scandal. They peaked at number one on the charts with Yellow and released one Top Five album annually until Hello World. By branching out into... read full bio
Born in Tenerife, Taz is an actor and writer whose parents are from Yorkshire and Sierra Leone. He is currently appearing in the popular Netflix series ONE PIECE as Sanji. Regarding his piece WARHEADS, which explores PTSD in young soldiers, Taz received an Olivier nomination. Right now, he's working on making it a feature. In the recent London Film Festival debut,... read full bio
Kimberly Perry's stunning vocals, lyrical brilliance, and superstar presence have enthralled audiences since 2005. Kimberly Perry, one-third of the Grammy® Award-winning superstar sibling trio The Band Perry, has sold over 2.5 million albums, 13 million singles, and over 2 billion streams in total. As a songwriter, Kimberly rose to prominence with her ground-breaking crossover #1 hit "If I Die Young,"... read full bio
Plano, Texas, is the birthplace of Daniel Roseberry. His mother was an artist and his father was a priest. He grew up in a very religious family with his three siblings and he even thought about becoming a minister. After graduating from high school, he went on Christian service missions to Hawaii, Jordan, Pakistan, and different parts of Israel. He returned... read full bio
