Leanne Summers president of LAWIM moderates a discussion with top professionals in various areas of the music business. Leanne is a Singer /Vocal Coach /Vocal Producer. Her voice and production has been heard on The Drew Carey Show, West Wing, Nikki, Cold Case, Californication and House of Lies. Leanne has shared the stage with Crystal Gayle, Ritchie Havens, Jonathan Cain, T.G. Sheppard, Stella Parton and Eddie Rabbit. She has coached artists for The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Star Search, American Idol, Star Search, The Voice and more.

Lanise Bent Engineer/Producer - Post Production/ Foley Mixer/ Editor - Foreign Dubbing Supervisor. Lenise worrked on many iconic records including Aja by Steely Dan, Breakfast in America by Supertramp, Tusk by Fleetwood Mac and Blondie's AutoAmerica. She traveled the world for Dreamworks supervising the foreign music and dialoge for such animated features as Shrek and Shrek 2. Lenise somehow finds time to teach at the SAE-LA Institute of Technology.

Janice Liebhart is an in demand singer songwriter who has traveled for 25 years performing with such notable artists as The Moody Blues, Engelbert, Glen Fry of the Eagles, The Righteous Brothers, Charlie Rich, and Michael Bolton. She has recorded with Neil Young and Ringo Star and has been heard on national commercials for Priceline.com, Taco Bell, Ross, 7 up. Her parody material for Premier Radio is in national syndication. She co-wrote over 100 songs for the 5-time Emmy award-winning show Jim Henson's Muppet Babies. She composed the theme song for Disney's "Emperor's New School" and Universal's "Undercover Brother."

Rene Merideth, Artist Management /Music Publishing & Licensing /Consultant for New Media Companies
Rene started her career as a roadie for her Grandfather's gospel music band learning the circuits in Southern Missouri and St. Louis. She earned a BA in Music Business at Belmont University in Nashville. Rene moved to Los Angeles and started Windswept Publishing and survived two high profile mergers to become Head of West Coast licensing of BMG. Over the years she's worked on music by artists including Allison Krauss, Vince Gill, Kings of Leon, Kiss, Bruno Mars, Beyonce, Eminem, Pink and Pete Townsend among others. Rene started Red Dragon Management in 2012 and handles artists like Avisi and Jetglow, she's a consultant for songwriters publishers and new media companies including Eagle-i and Adshare.tv.

Pinar Toprak, Film and TV Composer has over 30 film credits to date including "The River Murders" starring Ray Liotta and Christian Slater, "The Light Keepers" with Richard Dreyfuss, Blyth Danner and Bruce Dern, "The Wind Gods" produced by David Ellison who produced True Grit and Mission Impossible 4. She wrote and conducted the orchestra for Skydance Production's logo. Pinar won two international Film Music Critics Association Awards. Other credits include; the feature film "Behind Enemy Lines 2":"Axis of Evil", "Breaking Point", "Light of Olympia" "Say it in Russian and has written music for the X-box 360 video game "Ninety Nine Nights" produced by Microsoft.

Introduction and post discussion interview by Natalie Tian. Thanks to Catherine Rhee for producing the event and to PAH-Fest Los Angeles, Christopher Coppola and Los Angeles City College and Madonna University.

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