Music Publishers To Honor Sen. Leahy
Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy will receive a top honor at the National Music Publishers’ Association annual meeting in New York City next week. Leahy, who has said he believes that "music inspires us, and it connects us to others and to matters larger than ourselves," will receive the group's 2008 President's Award, which was established in 2005 to recognize an individual who has been a leader on issues of importance to music publishers and songwriters.
Leahy is an avid music fan whose tastes range from opera to the Grateful Dead and in the 110th Congress he has champion a Senate bill that would establish new performance rights protections. He has also been a longtime leader on intellectual property and copyright issues, routinely authoring bills to safeguard IP rights.
The NMPA will also honor Grammy-Award winning singer/songwriter Amy Lee with its 2008 Songwriter Icon Award. Lee is the co-founder and lead singer of rock band Evanescence and is a classically trained pianist. Evanescence's album “Fallen” sold more than 15 million copies and spent 43 weeks on the Billboard Top 10. Former recipients of the Icon Award include Jimmy Webb and Neil Sedaka.
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