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Stories/reviews/appearances have been secured in wide range of outlets including:
Late Night with David Letterman, Conan, CBS Sunday Morning, CNN, CNN Inside Africa, NPR All Things Considered, NPR Morning Edition, World Café, Mountain Stage, New York Times, LA Times, AP, LinkTV, Wall Street Journal, New Yorker, Billboard, BBC The World, Studio 360, Afropop Worldwide, Town & Country, Songlines, Global Rhythm, WB 11, BET-J, People en Espanol, El Diario, Hoy, EFE, Latina, Univision, Mun2, Despierta America!, Body & Soul, Irish Echo, Archaeology Odyssey, Jazziz, Jazz Times, DownBeat. FUSE, Travel + Leisure, VH Uno, MTVe, LATV, Strings, Buen Hogar, La Opinion, VIBE, TV y Novelas, Irish America, Miami Herald, India Abroad, East West, Religion Dispatches, Arab American News, Radio Bilingue, National Geographic Traveler, Latino USA, Prevention, Mantram, Conde Nast Traveler, Harpers Bazaar en espanol, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle and many others.

PR HISTORY

10/01 to present: CINDY BYRAM PR
Specialize in crafting personaized and creative PR campaigns for challenging, non-mainstream artists that reach across ethnic and geographic borders. I work with musicians, dancers and music presenters from around the globe, launching them successfully with national, regional and local U.S. media while retaining support and visibility in ethnic press. Clients include acclaimed festivals including the NY Flamenco Festival, the Fes Festival of World Sacred Music in Morocco, Muslim Voices Festival and presenters including World Music Institute (WMI), Columbia Artists Music Inc. (CAMI), and Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM). My individual artist clients including Yo-Yo Ma/Silk Road Ensemble composer Kayhan Kalhor, Grammy-winning Jewish group The Klezmatics, flamenco star Joaquin Cortes, Latin Grammy nominees Eva Ayllon and Peru Negro, Indian superstars Zakir Hussain and Asha Bhosle, Whirling Dervishes of Damascus, Spiritual Sounds of Central Asia, Afro-Latin singer Buika, Portuguese fado singer Mariza, and iconic Mexican singers Vicente Fernandez and Chavela Vargas. Full project roster at http://www.cindybyram.com

5/93 – 9/01: National Director of Public Relations SHANACHIE ENTERTAINMENT, New York, NY
Directed national PR office, overseeing long-running, multi-facted national campaigns for artists in exceptionally diverse genres: world, traditional and smooth jazz, folk, pop, reggae, Irish, spoken word, soundtracks, Latin, blues, cowboy poetry, and more. Wide-ranging roster included Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Solas, Richard Shindell, Lucky Dube, Black 47, Najma, Huun-Huur-Tu, Henry Kaiser, Andy Statman, Ghazal, Larry Coryell, Grupo AfroCuba de Matanzas, Brooklyn Funk Essentials, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Oversaw PR for up to 12 releases per month, each in different genres.

11/92 – 3/93: Director of Public Relations, Family Life Magazine WENNER MEDIA, New York, NY
Publicist for family lifestyle magazine launched by Rolling Stone publishing group.

1/92 – 9/92 Director, East Coast Publicity EMI RECORDS GROUP, N.A., New York, NY
Directed groundbreaking press campaigns for Chrysalis artists on newly-merged label. Clients included some of label’s most successful and chart-topping debut artists, including Arrested Development and Jeffrey Gaines.

2/87 – 1/92 Director, East Coast Publicity CHRYSALIS RECORDS, New York, NY
Wide-ranging national campaigns for pop, hiphop and folk/rock acts including Jethro Tull, The Proclaimers, The Waterboys, Gang Starr, Divinyls, Was (Not Was) and World Party.

ADDITIONAL INFO:

My press releases are reprinted as industry templates in The Billboard Music Guide to Publicity.

Music Consultant for the documentary film Promises, nominated for 2001 Academy Award for “Best Feature Documentary” and for two Emmy Awards.

Board of Directors, WORLD MUSIC INSTITUTE, New York, NY
WMI is North America’s most prestigious presenter of traditional music and dance from around the world, now in its 20th year.

• Record label clients include ECM, Warner Music, Sony Music, Six Degrees, World Village/Harmonia Mundi USA, Times Square/Four Quarters Entertainment.
• Consultant to Philadelphia Music Project