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Rising Young Executive


D. Nakazi
Promotion Manager, Def Jam/Def Soul of the Island/Def Jam Music Group

 

As Promotion Manager for Def Jam/Def Soul of the Island/Def Jam Music Group, D. Nakazi adds real meaning the words Rising Young Executive. With Def Jam since June, 1998, D. Nakazi is the promotions point person for hot acts like Redman, Method Man, Montell Jordan, Sisqo, DMX, Kelly Price, Jay Z and many more. Operating in her current capacity, Ms. Nakazi is responsible for routing, coordinating and micro-managing all promotional tours. She acts as a liaison between the artists and the label for all scheduling needs, plus executes all radio contest travel and prize allocations. In addition to these responsibilities, Dee prepares written and oral presentations to pitch cross-promotional opportunities to artists and their management, she creates promotional giveaway packages for all conventions and special events to ensure company visibility.

 

D. Nakazi began her career in the music industry as a promotions intern at Atlantic Records in September 1996 where she was responsible for processing all invoices, preparing a bi-weekly promotion report, designing flyers, retrieval of radio charts and the updating of artist calendars.

 

In just 4 short months, Nakazi graduated from intern to Promotion Coordinator where she coordinated and managed artist promotional tours, benefit concerts, press parties, tour events, and budgets, created awareness campaigns to increase artist/project visibility, disseminated all radio and sales chart information for artists like Lil' Kim, Changing Faces, Brandy and Aaliyah.

 

D. Nakazi is a 1997 graduate of New York University with a BS in Speech and Interpersonal Communications. Watch this young star as she continues to "rise and shine."

 



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