One Liners: Adam Lambert, Little Simz, Kiss, more

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DEALSSony Music Publishing has signed singer, songwriter and producer Naomi Kimpenu to a worldwide publishing agreement. “Naomi is an exceptional talent with a very bright future ahead of her”, says co-MD Tim Major. “She is a real force and we feel so lucky to be given the opportunity to support and cherish such an amazing person in the next phase of her career”.————————————————–APPOINTMENTSBMG has appointed Pierrot Raschdorff as Senior Director of Global Diversity, Equity & Inclusion.

He joins from Penguin Random House. “I couldn’t be more excited about joining BMG”, he says. “Music has the universal and emotional ability to connect people, even more, it forms communities and fosters faith in one’s diversity.

I am convinced that BMG is the right place for me to work on the mission for greater diversity every day”.Universal Music in the US has hired Alvaro Galbete-Velilla – formerly of SoundCloud – as SVP New Business, and promoted Kristen Bender to SVP Digital Innovation Strategy & Business Development.

Both will be tasked with pushing partnerships and innovation in Web3 and the metaverse while that’s still a thing anyone’s interested in.————————————————–RELEASESAdam Lambert has announced that he will release new covers album ‘High Drama’ on 24 Feb.