Thembisa S. Mshaka – Put Your Dreams First
Thembisa S. Mshaka’s Put Your Dreams First: Handle Your [entertainment] Business, with a foreward by Vanessa Williams and a huge number of interviews, is due April 23rd from Business Plus.
From promo materials:
“PUT YOUR DREAMS FIRST is mentorship in a bottle from over 90 dynamic women in music, radio, film, television, theater, dance, mobile, and new media who succeed in the business with their clothes ON.”
“Thembisa shares her insights on:
The Top Seven Biggest Industry Clichés
What you ‘Thought you Knew’ but ‘Need to Know’ to thrive in the industry
Ten Severance Commandments
The Work-Life Balance Myth”
Biography:
“Thembisa S. Mshaka is a 5-time Telly Award winner who has served in the entertainment industry for over 17 years, spanning the areas of touring, management, magazine publishing, recorded music and technology, advertising, music supervision for film, voice over, and television. As Senior Copywriter at Sony Music, and 2-time NARM Award winner, her campaigns contributed to the sale of more than 150 million albums for artists from Lauryn Hill, Will Smith, and Beyonce’, to NaS, Maxwell, George Michael, and Jill Scott.”
“The former GAVIN rap editor has also written for essence.com and LAUNCH.com, and serves as contributing editor for The Hotness.com. She contributed to anthology Sometimes Rhythm: Sometimes Blues (Seal Press) edited by Taigi Smith and Icons of Hip-Hop, an academic reference volume edited by Mickey Hess (Greenwood Press). Thembisa is currently the Copy Director for BET Networks.”
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