In addition to voiceovers, stage play narration and acting in commercials and videos, my background is in Public Relations, Media Training, Media Consultation, radio, television and Journalism.
Over the years, my Public Relations company, Rogers Artist Media, Inc., has provided media services for many major recording labels including Polygram, Columbia, Sony, Epic, Motown, Elektra, Island, Virgin, RCA, MCA, Interscope, Arista, Universal, Orpheus and Bad Boy Entertainment.
I'm a communications major who graduated from St. John's University. I've written biographies, created special multi-media packages, and/or personalized (label and artist) newsletters for many rising and platinum recording stars, actors and entertainment industry executives.
The list includes Destiny's Child, Mariah Carey, Doug E. Fresh, Eric B. and Rakim, EVENT, Lil.. Flip, Motown's first female rapper/singer M.C. Trouble, Jocelyn ("Somebody Else's Guy") Brown, Ruff Endz, 702, Eric B & Rakim, Kelly Price, Donell Jones, Jodeci, Immature, BeBe Winans, Luther Vandross, TLC, Sisters With Voices (SWV), BLACKstreet, Salt 'N' Pepa, Kenny Babyface Edmonds, Naughty By Nature, and the multi-platinum R&B group LSG also known as Levert.Sweat.Gill.
Other professional endeavors include being the former Arts Editor for the upscale urban magazine Black Men, and bylines and/or entertainment columns in such local and national publications in the U.S. and abroad, including the New York Daily News, New York Amsterdam News (where my "Different Stages" column has appeared for over two decades), Essence Magazine, Black Radio Exclusive, Billboard magazine, Right On!, Word Up!, Rapmasters, Black Beat magazine, The Spring Creek Sun ("Star Tracking" columnist), and Blues & Soul.
Among my company's current public relations clients are stage/film and TV star Obba Babatunde (Broadway's "Chicago" and the original "Dreamgirls," TV's "Half & Half," the hit films The "Manchurian Candidate," "Introducing Dorothy Dandridge," "The Visit" and "The Temptations"), renowned stage, screen and cabaret star Carol Woods ("Chicago's" best ever Mama Morton, and acclaimed star of the London and U.S. productions of "Blues In The Night"), outstanding actress/singer Samaria Graham ("Providence," "Girlfriend," "Law & Orderâ€), Woodie King's New Federal Theatre, Carl Clay's Black Spectrum Theatre, The Negro Ensemble Company, Ensemble Studio Theatre, the Algonquin Theater, the 2006 AND 2007 AUDELCO Awards, and Bishop Nathaniel Townsley's 2006 AND 2007 gospel hit stage musical "Follow The Star."
Presenting our clients in the best possible light, from confidence building, to media training, to exposing them to the widest, most responsive audience is the primary mission of Rogers Artist Media, Inc.I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4 I edited my profile with Thomas' Myspace Editor V4.4
