Island Breeze Music Appoints Todd Beals as Vice President, Business Development

    /24-7PressRelease.com/ - Orlando, FL, April 7, 2005 - Beals also will serve as Vice President of Business Development for Goin' Native Records, an Island Breeze affiliate. Beals will take primary responsibility for the strategic execution of Island Breeze's business plan and continued growth. Founded in 1989, Island Breeze is a premier provider of diverse musical groups to Walt Disney World Entertainment and other major entertainment venues. With particular expertise in Caribbean and African styles of entertainment as well as Latin, Andean and "Floribbean" genres, the agency also represents variety performers such as: acrobats, fire-eaters, limbo artists and stilt walkers - whose concept and creative direction are often produced and developed in-house. In addition, Island Breeze also helps its clients visualize, develop, and execute top quality entertainment for conventions, special events and themed parties.

Goin' Native Records, founded in 1998, is a next-generation independent music label that produces authentic "Worldbeat" music of the highest caliber. The catalogue features several albums intimately connected to the Caribbean lifestyle. The label also produces, distributes and markets the recordings of artists from the Island Breeze agency. Anyone who enjoys traveling to exotic places will instantly identify with the Goin' Native collection - music with a vacation vibe!

Beals is a graduate of Full Sail Center for the Recording Arts in Winter Park. He has a B.A. degree in music from the University of North Florida and also holds an M.B.A. with a specialization in Information Systems Management from the University of Central Florida.

"Todd is a music industry veteran with multiple talents and has extensive knowledge of the entire music business," said Glen Barclay, founder and president of Island Breeze. "The tremendous opportunities in this evolving and dynamic industry continue to grow as a result of the move toward digital delivery and we're excited that Todd has signed on to help us identify and maximize those opportunities."

Island Breeze Music is an international full-service talent agency representing a variety of performers, many of whom are culturally unique. For sixteen years, Island Breeze Music has proudly served the entertainment needs of theme parks and corporate event planners, producing thousands of shows for some of the most demanding clientele in the industry. For more information, please visit http://www.islandbreezemusic.com or http://www.goinnative.com.

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