Kim Glover
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Kim Glover is an English music manager best known for overseeing the careers of New Kids on The Block, Let Loose and B*witched, as well as helping to manage and develop the careers of Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, David Essex and others. She is also Chief Executive of Kim Glover Management based in London, which she founded in 1993.[citation needed]
Professional career
Glover started her career in 1978 at Magnet Records as part of the radio promotions team for Michael Levy (now Lord Levy of Magnet Records) handling artists such as Chris Rea, Darts, Matchbox and Bad Manners, where she was soon promoted to Head of TV and Radio.[citation needed]
With her reputation growing, Glover left in 1982 to set up her own independent radio and TV promotions company Girl Friday Promotions, where she promoted artists such as Michael Jackson, The Cult, David Essex, Scritti Politti, Toyah, Love and Rockets, Orange Juice, Catcherpaya, Men at Work, Altered Images, Jimmy Nail, Icicle Works, Barry Manilow and Meat Loaf among others.[citation needed]
In 1987, she planned radio and TV promotion campaigns for the likes of Whitney Houston, Carly Simon, Taylor Dayne, The Four Tops, Kenny G, Dionne Warwick, Grateful Dead, Barry Manilow, Patti Smith, Lisa Stansfield, the Thompson Twins and Aretha Franklin.[citation needed]
In recent years Glover has discovered and managed groups including B*Witched, Let Loose, and D-Side[1]
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In 2005 she set up an agency with business partner Samantha Forrest under Band and Brand. This platform helps new talent with a host of music and branding opportunities. One major project for a teen fragrance fragrance company - created a band as a promotion vehicle for the fragrance. Such was the success of the project that Glover and Forrest secured finance from an Icebreaker fund to record and release an album. Further involvement also came from other leading brands such as Hush Puppies and Ubisoft game Imagine Girlband with the band featuring on a TV campaign with Holly Willoughby and Fearne Cotton.
She is currently managing Irish boy-band, Mission4. Auditions were held in Dublin in October and 4 boys from Dublin and Kildare were chosen; Rock band Envy of The State - again funded by Icebreaker support and Classical Pianist Daniel Grimwood who recently played at the Start event held at Prince Charles' home - Clarence House as organised by Live Nation UK.
References
- ^ "Pop Manager Kim Glover: Who's Inside D-Side?". BBC-Top of the Pops. Retrieved 2009-04-10.