Porfirio Piña (born August 16, 1965), talent manager, entrepreneur, music advocate and artistic director. He is a native of the

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, currently based out of New York City, and Miami.

Career

Porfirio currently serves as the senior director of the Latin division for BMI, Broadcast Music Inc. Founded in 1939, BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 350,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. Porfirio is also a partner at Ritmo Loco Publishing, Inc., advising artists and managing catalog of more than one hundred songs, arranging co-publishing deals for Latin America, Europe and Asia, as well as issuing licenses to record labels, TV networks and film companies. In 2005, Mr. Pina signed Ritmo Loco Publishing to an administrative deal with publishing giant Sony/ATV. Before joining BMI, Mr. Piña managed Nicolas Tovar who has written numerous hits for

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, La India, and Jaci Velasquez among others. Mr. Pina began his

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career back in 1989, forming and managing the first-ever Merengue Hip-Hop group

Proyecto Uno Proyecto Uno (from Spanish into English: Project One) is a Dominican-American Hip hop/ Merengue house group which helped popularize a style of music that blends merengue with techno, dancehall, hip-hop/ rap and reggae music. The band was found ...

. Under Porfirio's management the group went on to receive numerous Gold and Platinum Records Awards in the USA, Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Spain,

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, Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, Orquidea de Oro (Venezuela), ACE Awards (New York), El Casandra Awards (Dominican Republic) and Latin Grammy Nominations. In 1995, together with a former partner Porfirio created Double P Music, a

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and

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, that played a key role in forming, launching and managing various artists such as El Chipo (Rodven/PolyGram); Sandy & Papo MC (Platano Records/Universal); Joselito (Musart/Balboa) and Ilegales ( BMG US Latin). Together they created and produced remixes for

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, Los Hermanos Rosario, Roy Tavare, Amparo Sandino, Checo Acosta and others successful international artists. Between January 2001 and May 2002, Porfirio joined Palm Pictures/

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and later Latino Music Corp where he was the Marketing Director, developing strategic sales, marketing and promotion plans for Carlos Manuel y Su Clan (Palm/Ryko), Fernando Villalona (LARAS & NARAS GRAMMY Nominee), Felix D'Oleo ( LARAS

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Nominee), Angelito Villalona, Ramón Orlando and Swing Divino amongst others.

Speaking engagements

* NALIP: Synch Licensing 101 (April 2010) * FUNGLODE: Placing Your Music in TV/Film & Synch Licenses (November 2009) *

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: The Business of Music (November 2009) *

Latin Alternative Music Conference The Latin Alternative Music Conference (LAMC) is a conference geared towards the marketing of Spanish-language alternative music, founded in 2000.Monroe College Monroe University is a Private college, private For-profit higher education in the United States, for-profit university in New York City. It was founded in 1933 and has campuses in the Bronx, New Rochelle and Saint Lucia, with degree programs al ...

: Entrepreneurship & Marketing Class (May 2009) *

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: How Multicultural Marketing Influences Your World (April 2009) *

: How Multicultural Marketing Influences Your World (October 2008) * Boston Music Conference: Copyright and Performing Rights 101 (September 2008) * Billboard Latin Conferences: BMI &

Music Business The music industry are individuals and organizations that earn money by writing songs and musical compositions, creating and selling recorded music and sheet music, presenting concerts, as well as the organizations that aid, train, represent ...

101 Roundtable (April 2008) *

: The Business of Songwriting (November 2007) * Celia Cruz High School of Music: Latin Grammy en las Escuelas (October 2007) * Billboard Latin Conferences: How I Wrote That Song (April 2007) * Moderator of BMI Presents: Industry Insider Series (2005-2006-2007-2008-2009) *

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– School of Music: Grammy Career Seminar (February 2007) * El Museo del Barrio: Merengue Popular Music and the Industry (November 2006) * NALIP: Roundtable Film Producers and the Music Business (September 2006) *

Professional associations

Mr. Pina is a ''voting member'' in both

NARAS National Academy of Recording Arts & Sciences, Inc. (NARAS), doing business as The Recording Academy, is an American Learned society, learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers, and other musical professionals. It is widely kno ...

(Grammy) and LARAS (Latin Grammy), as well as for The

National Academy of Popular Music The National Academy of Popular Music (NAPM) is an American organization which administers the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and sponsors a series of workshops and showcases for the songwriting A songwriter is a person who creates musical compositi ...

. He is a member of The NYC Latin Media and Entertainment Commission, Association of Independent Music Publisher, Dominican American National Roundtable. He is the board director for the Latin Scholarships division of The BMI Foundation, Board Co-Chairman for The National Association of Latinos Independent Producers and is a Co-Chairman in the Latin Committee of

– NY Chapter.

Recognitions

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: EL Awards 2008, Successful Latinos in the USA (November 2008),

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: Supporting Education, Advocacy and Human Service Initiatives (February 2008), DTM Magazine: Latino Trendsetter Awards (2006).

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