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    <title>Mistress of the Muse</title>
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    <dc:date>Fri, 09 Sep 2011 21:54:27 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Benjy Grinberg</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I recently had the pleasure of interviewing Benjy Grinberg, founder of Rostrum Records. It's an admirable thing to start your own business, but even more impressive to make it successful. Well, Benjy has done just that. After exiting Arista under the stalwart, LA Reid, Benjy has grown his label from apartment to office building with artists like Wiz Khalifa and Mac Miller. Read on to gain some insight and a positive perspective on what it's like to run a label in today's industry and get a taste of who Benjy is. <br />
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Who haven’t you worked with yet that you would like to?<br />
I love my artists and I love my team at Rostrum.  We’re a tight-knit group and we work very hard.  I’m sure there are undiscovered artists and up-and-coming music executives that would fit in well as we continue to grow.  I look forward to meeting and working with them one day soon.<br />
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What keeps it fresh for you? <br />
My close relationship with my artists.  As they continue to grow, I grow.  As they experience new things, I experience them as well.   I love learning and I always strive for a better understanding of the world.   Additionally, innovation is very exciting for me.  I feel that young companies like ours are starting trends and breaking new ground for artists to come. <br />
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What haven’t you done yet that is on your list?<br />
I need to get Barry Manilow and my mom in the same room.  And I need to make sure there are cameras to capture the moment.   It would be amazing.<br />
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If you weren’t in the music business what else would you be doing?<br />
I would still be an entrepreneur.  I would be running some other business that I had started.  Creation is what drives me.   But music is my love, my soul.  It’s very important to me.<br />
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      <title>Black and Jewish</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[Black and Jewish]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:32 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>Without music, life would be a mistake</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[I thought it a good introduction to my web ramblings and myself with the quote above. Yes, it is a Nietzsche quote, a figure that could be controversial in it’s/his own right, but it’s also the subject of my first tattoo, a contentious topic and paradox to my nice Jewish upbringing. Yes, this nice Jewish girl forever branded her body with ink that made her parents’ hearts skip a beat, before my mother thought, for a split second, that she may get one too. Rest assured, she hasn’t done that.]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Fri, 05 Aug 2011 17:44:37 +0000</dc:date>
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      <title>About</title>
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      <content:encoded><![CDATA[A natural born music maven, Erica Ramon has built her life around her passion for creativity, self-expression and music. ]]></content:encoded>
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      <dc:date>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:35:05 +0000</dc:date>
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