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| Born | June 22, 1946 New York, New York |
| Alma mater | Yale University |
| Occupation | Music industry executive |
| Years active | 1971-present |
| Notable work | American Popular Music and Its Business in The Digital Age |
| Website | americanpopularmusicbusiness |
Rick Sanjek (born June 22, 1946) is an American music industry professional.
Early life and education
[edit]Sanjek was born in the Washington Heights, Manhattan neighborhood, and raised in New Rochelle, New York. In high school he was an AFS Intercultural Programs exchange student in Helsinki, Finland.[1] During his senior year he covered high school sports for the New Rochelle Standard-Star local newspaper.[2] He attended Yale University. Between college graduation and moving to Nashville, he taught 5th and 6th grade in Harlem and the South Bronx.
His paternal grandparents were immigrants from Hrascina, Croatia and his maternal grandparents from County Mayo, Ireland for his grandfather David Tarpey and County Wexford for his grandmother Mary Codd. His father Russell Sanjek worked at BMI in New York from 1940 through 1981 retiring as vice president of public relations and special projects. He was an autodidactic whose eclectic interests ranged across fine art, film, literature, and world history, but especially music where he became a noted record collector, music industry historian, and an authority on pop, jazz, black, and country music.[3] At the end of his life he authored the first comprehensive history of the American music industry, American Popular Music and Its Business: the First Four Hundred Years, a three volume, 1,685 page accounting of "the story of America's popular songs, the people who wrote them, and the business they created and sustained."[4] The books were published by Oxford University Press in 1988, two years after the elder Sanjek's death in 1986. His mother Elizabeth (nee Tarpey) Sanjek was an accomplished watercolorist and a registered teacher with the Sumi-e Society of America[5] and an academic associate for art of the China Institute of New York. She also studied Chinese cuisine with noted cookbook authors Grace Zia Chu and Florence Lin, and subsequently taught for many years in private lessons and at the Cooks Nook in Nashville TN.[6]
Nashville 1971-1986
[edit]In October 1972 he moved to Atlantic Records to open a Nashville office specializing in Country Music.[7] From 1975 to 1977 he managed business affairs for songwriter/producer Jack Clement. Then in 1978 he became vice president of the record label and publishing companies owned by steel guitar virtuoso Pete Drake.[8] From 1982 through 1986 Sanjek managed recording artist Becky Hobbs and operated his Circle South Music publishing and Rite-Lite video production companies.
BMI New York 1986-1992
[edit]From 1986-1992 Sanjek re-joined BMI to became vice president of writer/publisher relations for BMI in the New York corporate headquarters under Frances Preston.[9] He also served as a national trustee and the president of the New York Chapter for the Recording Academy.[10]
Nashville 1992-present
[edit]In July 1992 he resigned from BMI and reopened his own publishing, management, and music licensing businesses in Nashville.[11] Since then, he has been involved in the creation of and/or licensing for hundreds of audio projects, as well as music clearance, talent supervision, and/or scripting for dozens of video projects.
American Popular Music and Its Business in The Digital Age
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In addition to licensing consultation for record labels, publishers, and websites, he wrote a follow-up to his late father Russell Sanjek's three volume opus American Popular Music and its Business: the First 400 Years. His new work is titled American Popular Music and its Business in The Digital Age, 1985-2020 published in August 2024, also by Oxford University Press.[12] The book "Traces the growth of revenue, changing technologies, and shifts in ownership and leadership of the record, publishing, live performance, and trade press sectors of the music industry."[12]
Personal Life
[edit]A 1968 graduate of Yale University with a BA in history, he was also founding partner and co-owner with leading Nashville restauranteur Randy Rayburn of the awarding-winning Sunset Grill, a fine dining, American cuisine eatery and wine bar that operated from 1990-2014.
References
[edit]- ^ The New Rochelle Standard Star, Sanjek Off To Finland; NRHS First AFS Representative Sails, June 26, 1963. Page 11.
- ^ Ricky Sanjek, Stepinac Ties New Rochelle 13-13 in Grid Debut, The New Rochelle Standard September 28, 1963. Page 22.
- ^ Billboard, Russ Sanjek Dies At 70, June 21, 1986. Page 6.
- ^ Russell Sanjek, American Popular Music and Its Business: the First Four Hundred Years, Oxford University Press (New York:1988) from dust jacket notes.
- ^ https://www.sumiesociety.org/
- ^ The Nashville Tennessean, Elizabeth Betty Sanjek obituary, November 21, 2010.
- ^ Billboard, Atl. Nashville Office Opened, October 14, 1972. Page 3
- ^ The Nashville Tennessean, Sanjek Joins Pete Drake, November 11, 1978. Page 9.
- ^ Robert K. Oermann, Rick Sanjek To Join BMI New York Staff, Nashville Tennessean, August 8, 1986. Page 42.
- ^ Billboard, And The Winner Is..., January 25, 1992. Page 12.
- ^ Irv Lichtman, Sanjek To Exit BMI For New Ties, May 16, 1992. Page 86.
- ^ a b "American Popular Music And Its Business In The Digital Age". American Popular Music And Its Business In The Digital Age. Retrieved 2024-10-25.