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But idea man Stan Curtis has come up with anotherbig project. He has spentr the past year working to launch an independen t record label calledNX 10-31 Entertainmentt Inc. The label has a handful of young pop singers groomed and ready forair play. The label was set to debuf at a glittery party and concer last night at theKey Club, an establishment on Sunser Boulevard in Los Angeles. Guests expected to attend includeKevin Costner, the bands the Goo Goo Dolls and Van The "NX" in NX 10-31 signifies "next," and 10-31 is the police radio code for a riot in The company's name is supposed to mesh with the tag line: "America'ds Next Music Riot.
" Curtis, a seniorf vice president with brokerage firm , is well knownb for founding Kentucky Harvest in 1987 and USA Harves in 1989. Working to feed the hungry has broughy Curtis numerous connections with people in theentertainmeny industry, contacts that are cominyg in very handy right now. Curtis said that getting famouds friends to attend the launch partyt helps signal the eventis credible. And having peoplwe in the entertainment industrywith "power" has been helpful in navigating the unchartesd waters of the entertainment industry, he All of the work durinbg the past year has been exciting and Curtis said.
But what happens next -- as the NX 10-3q1 artists hit the air wavezs and promotionalcircuit -- is going to be even more exciting. Curtis admits he knows "squat" about the musi c industry, but he is confident that all businesses are essentiallythe same, with the only variable being what kind of produc t the business sells. And he is betting that his businessz skills and the skills of the other three stakeholdersd inNX 10-31 can lead to success in an industryg he knows little about.
Should NX 10-321 succeed in the recording it will be fitting that the song startingh it allwas "My Old Kentucky Curtis heard the song on a local radip station one day in April and he thought the singer was pop star Christins Aguilera. Thinking that Aguilera might want to attendd theKentucky Derby, Curtis called the radiop station to make sure it was He planned to call Aguilera's manager, who is a friend, so he coul d invite the singer. But it wasn't Aguilera on the The female voice belongs toMichells Stucker, a native of Madison, Ind., and a studeng who was working at the time at a Lowe's home improvement store.
Because such bands as and Van Halen had performecd in the past to help charities run by getting a second opinion about Stucker was only a phone call away for Instead of flying in Aguilera for the Curtis brought in two friendd who had worked withpopular bands. Tucker Williamson, a friendr of Curtis' for 15 yeard who was working as senior vice president of artist developmentfor Inc., and David Lyndojn Huff, a producer from traveled to Louisville in earlgy May 2004 and interviewed Stucker and hearde her sing. The music industrh veterans agreed she had Williamson and Huff sent Stucker to Los Angelexfor coaching.
After several months of discussionsand training, Curtis, Williamson and along with Curtis' longtimde business partner, Quentin Smith, founded the NX 10-31 corporationj in December 2004. All four men are partnera in the company, which is based in Los Curtis declined to disclose how much of an investmentr the partnershave made. Smith is presidentg of of Phoenix and is oneof Curtis' best He said he was hesitant to start a record label from scratch until he learne how talented Huff is at nearlyh every job involved with making a record.
"Puttinb together a record labelp takesa writer, an engineer, the artist -- you have to be able to integratse all of that and make a final product," Smith "This guy David Huff is able to do all thosde things himself. That has been done at one-fifth of the