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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