Recording Rap

I want to thank everyone that took the time to attend the March 19th membership meeting. Because of the quorum and voting, I was able to receive my pay raise. I know how busy everyone is at this time of year and I appreciate all attending.

This past month I had meetings with AFTRA and SAG to introduce myself and to brainstorm ideas to strengthen our Union presence in the Commercial Industry. As I stated in the last newsletter, our Commercial Producers have formed a Miami Chapter of AMP. Rene Barge, who's heading our Chapter, will be doing a project in Spain this summer. Hopefully we'll get a meeting in before he leaves. As Rene is leaving the country, Steve Roitstein of Riot Music will be filling his Executive Board position.

I had meetings with Producer Rudy Perez and his wife Betsey who are producing Julio Iglesias's two new albums. We did contracts for the pre-records to get the musicians paid. I also got a new recording musician and an expelled member that are working on the project to join .

Even though CD sales have hit their first major slump in 18 years, Latin music is faring better than the industry at large. According to the Recording Industry Association of America, the U.S. Latin music market grew 6% last year. Globally, Latin music sales shrank by 1% and shipments fell 3 percent. Our recording total is up to $175,000 so far for our first quarter of 2002 which is strong.

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