New Music Nights, BMI Urban Showcase

The showcase winner will be determined by a distinguished panel of industry standouts, including:

Blaque, Members Shamari, Brandi and Natina (Electra Recording artist first single produced by Missy Elliot on radio 5/1 album in stores in August)
Teddy Bishop, CEO of Groove Factor Production, songwriter, composer and producer (Aaliyah, B2K, Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton)
Kamala Gordon, Director of Publishing Warner Chappell (Rockwilder, Faith Evans)
Rodney Jerkins, CEO of Darkchild and Grammy-award winning producer (Michael Jackson, Jennifer Lopez, N'Sync, Brandy)
Daron Jones, CEO of DPS Productions and DPS Records, member of 112 and songwriter (112, Pink, NOTORIOUS B.I.G., Usher)
Lil Jon, two-times gold BME/TVT recording artist and acclaimed producer (Too Short, Pastor Troy, Ludacris, Trick Daddy)
Angelique Miles, VP of Creative/East Coast EMI Music Publishing (Timabaland, Missy Elliott)
Pastor Troy, Universal Records recording artist and producer
Shakir Stewart, Senior VP and GM Hitco Music (Beyonce Knowles)
Rico Wade, Grammy award winning producer (TLC, Outkast, Goodie Mob & The Dungeon Family)
Rob Walker, President, Star Trak Entertainment/CEO, Rocksoul Entertainment (The Neptunes, N*E*R*D)
Tse Williams, VP of A&R Universal Records
Donald Woodard, Attorney Greenberg Traurig
Denise Rich, Owner of Denise Rich Songs, Grammy nominated songwriter (Aretha Franklin, Mary J & Lyric)
Bruce Carbone, Executive VP A/R Universal Music Group