Youth Music launches £2 million fund to promote diversity in the music industry

fund to protect the UK’s arts and cultural industries will be used to save grassroots music venues from closing their doors.In a statement, Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden confirmed that £2.25 million of emergency funding will be used to secure the futures of up to 150 venues across the country.“Without our grassroots music venues, we wouldn’t have The Beatles, Adele or Elton John.

Also Read: Emmy Nomination Predictions in Variety & Reality: Shrinking Categories, Stay-at-Home Hosts and No 'Amazing Race'“It starts with a clear definition of who you are, what your brand values are and how you see yourself,” Ghiazza said.

Peter White Television EditorEXCLUSIVE: Diona Vaughan Mankowitz, who has worked on shows such as Netflix’s Love Is Blind and Skin Decision, has launched a collective of casting executives and producers to improve the diversity of non-scripted shows.Vaughan Mankowitz has launched Divergent Content, based in LA, that aims to improve the diverse make-up of reality shows, daytime formats and docu-series.“It’s a collective of Black and Brown people in entertainment,” Vaughan Mankowitz told Deadline.

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Todd Spangler NY Digital EditorTikTok is launching a program to fund its most popular creators directly for their videos — with an initial $200 million earmarked for the U.S.

ACM: The Hub, which features artist conversations, at-home acoustic performances, access to artist merchandise and weekly ACM-curated playlists.ACM: The Hub was developed in response to COVID-19 freezing the concert and festival world.

Variety Staff Follow Us on TwitterThe Warner Music Group / Blavatnik Family Foundation Social Justice Fund has announced the external members of its Board of Directors. According to the announcement, the five leaders will help ensure the Fund’s governance will include independent oversight and accountability.

Amanda N'Duka pmc-editorial-managerEmmy and Golden Globe winner Elisabeth Moss has launched Love & Squalor Pictures production company and signed a joint first-look deal with Fox 21 Television Studio and Hulu.

she donated $6 million to support underserved communities of color amid the coronavirus pandemic, while she and mother Tina Knowles-Lawson subsequently worked to provide Black communities in her Houston hometown with access to COVID-19 testing. Now, she's teaming up with the NAACP to support Black-owned small businesses across the U.S., offering grants of $10,000 to businesses in Houston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis.

Los Cenzontles Cultural Arts Academy in the Bay Area and the Mariachi Heritage Foundation in Chicago are preserving and keeping traditional Mexican sounds alive through music programs and young musicians.The importance of cultural preservation, specifically sounds that aren't considered mainstream or don't get much radio airplay, is what motivated Eugene Rodriguez (founder of Los Cenzontles) and Cesar Maldonado (Mariachi Heritage Foundation) to launch their music programs."It was a way of

: In April, she donated $6 million to support underserved communities of color amid the coronavirus pandemic, while she and mother Tina Knowles-Lawson subsequently worked to provide Black communities in her Houston hometown with access to COVID-19 testing. Now, she's teaming up with the NAACP to support Black-owned small businesses across the U.S., offering grants of $10,000 to businesses in Houston, Atlanta, New York, Los Angeles, and Minneapolis.

Gabby Barrett, R&B singer Kiana Ledé, grime MC Jay1, alt-R&B singer and poet Arlo Parks, folk-pop group Provinz and German pop artist Malik Harris.The program is designed to provide global marketing support for emerging artists across genres and territories, with artists from the U.S., U.K. and Germany in the inaugural class.

Melania Trump is sending a message to the nation that people should take wearing a face mask seriously. Though the United States has seen an incredible surge of Coronavirus cases, there isn’t a national face mask-wearing order and states are determining what methods they are taking to fight the deadly, novel virus.

Jennifer Lopez and Maluma have officially announced that they are working on new music together.

Fans can now look forward to some great music from none other than Jennifer Lopez in collaboration with Maluma! The triple threat and the hunky Columbian singer are apparently planning a duet and everyone is freaking out about it on social media! This piece of news comes after it was also confirmed that the two superstars are also going to co-star in a romantic comedy in which they will be portraying an engaged couple that comes to an end before they can tie the knot! Jennifer Lopez seems to be

Get ready for a new song from Jennifer Lopez and Maluma!

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coronavirus crisis and haven’t received any financial support.The multiple award-winning film and theatre director, whose most recent work was helming war epic 1917, has established the fund for those who are at most need, with a view to granting those eligible as quickly as possible.“It is specifically designed for theatre workers who find themselves at breaking point, for those unable to put food on the table or to pay bills, or for those considering leaving the profession altogether”, Mendes