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Steve Leeds: Return To Belmont University-September 1, 2005
Sirius Satellite's STEVE LEEDS returns to the teaching lectern at Nashville's Belmont University's' Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business on September 1. It's a second go round for Leeds who taught his inaugural session last year with terrific results.(students graded professor Leeds with a 5 out of a possible 5) The college, based in Nashville has a group of students relocate to New York and attend the 14-week course. During the last series of sessions, Leeds had his students attend a NARAS screening of the Tom Dowd documentary THE BUSINESS OFMUSIC, held a tele-conferencing session with several industry names from LA (including Universal's VP Video Production Jeff Panzer) and drummer turned author Jake Slichter of Semisonic. The class has become a frequent stop for various music industry executives. When Leeds last held his Belmont-sessions he was fronting his own entertainment consultancy firm, NEO ENTERTAINMENT, where his major account was Sirius. Last month, Leeds officially came aboard the sat caster as VP-Talent and Industry Relations. The way Leeds sees it, it just gives more grist for the course, "Right now, I work at one of the major entertainment entities in the business and the students will directly benefit from that". For Leeds, who helped start-up MTV and VH1, and discovered 'Rosie O'Donnell', Daisy Fuentes and 'Adam Sandler' while there, and has held prominent promotion positions at Atlantic Records, Universal Records, and Virgin Records, this latest role as 'educator' is one he totally embraces. "For a while I was wary of these so-called 'adjunct' educational courses in the music business, but now having done it at Belmont and William Paterson (in New Jersey), I totally get it and embrace it. To have a class full of students who very definitely are there by their own choosing and get it ... is very rewarding. In fact, it's become a very prominent aspect of my career." Leeds always starts his classes off by saying that the 'One consistent thing in this business is change' and for this latest Belmont session, he finds himself as proof positive of that statement. This semester, Belmont University has relocated all the classes from a downtown rehearsal facility to space located on the 63rd floor of the Empire State Building.
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