Rhythmix
| Rhythmix logo | |
| Founded | 1999 |
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| Type | Youth music |
| Registration no. | 1125646 |
| Focus | Challenging Circumstances |
| Location |
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Area served | South East England |
Employees | 10 |
| Website | rhythmixmusic |
Rhythmix is one of the UK's leading music charities, delivering a large range of music making opportunities for young people across the South East region. Since 1999, Rhythmix has worked with more than 40,000 young people, enabling their creative activity through music and developing their personal and social skills.
Activities
Rhythmix works with its partners in Youth Support Services, such as Youth Workers, Arts Officers, Crime Reduction and Youth Offending Teams, to identify young people in challenging circumstances, and enables those young people to shape and develop projects that respond to their needs.
Working with a team of over 50 professional community musicians, Rhythmix is continually developing innovative and exciting new programmes that challenge young people to express their creativity.
Rhythmix manages and delivers Musical Inclusion (Lottery funded by Youth Music) for Brighton & Hove, East Sussex, West Sussex, Kent and Surrey. This programme is the direct engagement with young people delivering programmes that address Exclusion, Challenging Circumstances and Young People at Risk and encourage the talent and potential of these young people.
Rhythmix is also committed to workforce development and have a range of support, information, advice and guidance, training and networking on offer.
2011 X Factor dispute
In 2011, Rhythmix came to widespread media attention when the television presenter and music promoter Simon Cowell attempted to trademark the name Rhythmix in relation to his girl band which featured on the television programme The X Factor. After a legal challenge, Cowell's company, Syco, dropped the trademarking application and the pop group agreed to change their name to Little Mix.[1] Following the dispute, Cowell donated an undisclosed sum to the charity.[2]
In response to the X-Factor naming controversy, an online protest was launched to promote the Nirvana single "Smells Like Teen Spirit" to 2011 Christmas number one in the UK Singles Chart, in an attempt to emulate a successful 2009 Facebook campaign to promote Rage Against the Machine's song "Killing in the Name", and hence prevent the X Factor winners from taking the spot.[3]
Little Mix would go on and win the series on December 11, and their winners song, Cannonball, by Damien Rice, went to number one on its first week in UK and Ireland, and whilst, in the UK, it lost Christmas number 1 to Military Wives charity song Wherever You Are, it held onto Number 1 on Christmas Day in Ireland, meaning neither Nirvarna campaign came to fruition.
References
- ^ Published Wednesday, 26 October 2011, 17:37 BST (26 October 2011). "'X Factor' Rhythmix to change name following charity pressure - X Factor News - TV". Digital Spy. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Simon Cowell donates money to Rhythmix charity". Glamour Magazine.
- ^ Michaels, Sean (7 December 2011). "Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit to be re-released for Christmas". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 December 2011.
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