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Keeping The Blues Alive Awards 2007
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In 2007, following on the heels of the two Grammy
nominations and ten Blues Music Award nominations Ruf
artists have earned in the past, the Ruf label
received the industry's most prestigious award in
recognition of its contributions toward advancing the
blues genre. |
Tomas Ruf receiving the award
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Who Are GFI Promotions? GFI Promotions is a company run by a man with a fine pedigree in the music business. He began his plugging career with Anchor and ABC records, promoting such acts as Don Williams, Ace and Alice Cooper. Next was CBS Records (Now owned by Sony) where he carried out promotions for many artists including Meatloaf, Billy Paul, Denise Williams, Bonnie Tyler, Toto, Billy Joel and Julio Iglesias.
GFI Promotions received gold discs for many of the above
acts. The act of getting Iglesias's "Begin the Beguine" in the UK charts was
probably one of GFI's greatest successful challenges as it was practically
the opposite to the trend in the charts at the time. After leaving CBS,
GFI's CEO took positions as Head of Promotion at MCA and Gem Records.
GFI Promotions was set up, and promoted Sam Fox, Nik Kershaw, Sly Fox, Dan Hartman and others. Soon
afterwards, they promoted acts such as Mel & Kim, Princess, The Three Degrees,
The Rah Band, Midge Ure and Gary Numan and were presented with several silver
discs.
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