Concert Promotion

In between songwriting, producing and gigging, I've also worked in concert promoting.

Music industry

03 Apr 2007
In a couple of weeks, I'll be down in LA for the ASCAP Convention. I went last year and had a great time and learned a lot. And of course met many great people.

Here's the line up this year:
http://www.ascap.com/eventsawards/events/expo/schedule.html

I'll let you know how it goes...

XSample

I met XSample the first day he came to America, at a practice for Sister-I-Live. The next day I played keyboards for him at a UC Berkeley fraternity. A week or two he came with Sister Sharon and I to a show in San Francisco. Driving there crossing the bridge, I let them hear the unfinished tracks for the Get 2 Nomi CD. I was sitting in the back seat and XSample turned half way around to look at me. "Is that you singing?" I answered yes and that I also played most of the tracks. He kept turning to look at me and rewinding the first song, Aphrodesiac. He started singing along with it and I asked if he wanted to do a remix. If it was good enough, I'd put it on as a bonus track. He ended up doing two remixes on the album, Afrodesiac and Conpspiracy.

XSample's bio (from My Space)

"Xsample... resided in Oakland California where he learned music from the Queen of hooks Nomiyah"

Forwards

For those of you unfamiliar with the term, a "forward" is when a song gets through a gate-keeper to someone who wants to use the song. A forward is the first step to getting a song deal so it's good news.

Press

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http://www.ascap.com/playback/2006/spring/stepping_out/released.html

All Around The World (Wide Web)

www.nomiyah.com

www.nomiyah.blogspot.com

www.myspace.com/nomiyah

http://cdbaby.com/cd/nomiyah

Podcast

31 Dec 2006
Wow is featured on the October/November Rockin’ Moms Podcast.

Check it out at: http://www.rockinmoms.com/playlist.htm

King Of Kings

When I was 13-years-old, my best friend Sophie Conty and I wrote the song "King of Kings" to sing at her church. We were asked to perform it for a convention of missionaries. There were about a thousand people in the audience and we were scared but dared each other to do it. It's a simple song in a 2-part round and the audience learned it quickly and sang along. Afterwards, those missionaries scattered throughout the world and the song went with them. The pastor at Sophie's church saw it published in a songbook as anonymous and contacted the company to let them know we were the songwriters. (Thanks for taking action!!!!) Maranatha Music, one of the largest Christian publishers, offered us a contract and it's been successful ever since. The song has been translated into several languages, recorded by many artists and is still performed as a classic praise song in countless church services.

Performing

Gig gig gig... that's how I spent most of my life. Here are some of the interesting ones.

Backstage Guestlist

There are many talented performers and songwriters that visit my site. Please sign the guest list and let me know you were here. Go ahead and promote yourself and a link to your website.

Guest List

Please sign the Guest List and let me know you were here. I know it's usually called a Guest Book but think of it like getting your name on the guest list for the big Nomi Yah Music party. Glad you could make it!!!!!

My New Blog

My new blog. The message board I had before was so full of spam both my hands fell off deleting them. So here I am starting over. I'm copying over the great posts from the last board so you might see a post by someone else seem like I wrote it.