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Staff
Barry Coffing
CEO and Founder of Music Supervisor.us
He is a 20 year industry veteren who has tremendous credits to his name. He’s an Emmy losing composer (They call it nominated). He had his own singing career signing to Warner Brothers Records in the 1990’s. (Only in Asia but he sold over 7 records, maybe 8 including his mom) He has written hit songs around the world including the #1 hit “I’ll Come Back To You”. It was #1 in Denmark for over one week and recorded by the Chippendale Dancers. (Dancers a nice word for strippers) As a movie producer he won best producer of the year at the Beverly Hills Film Festiville in 2003. (More of a mercy award because the film took 10 years to finish and 2 of the actors had died before the final edit was done) With countless other disasters to his credit, he is uniquely qualified to steer this ship away from danger. All joking aside he has written & produced over 200 songs in Film & TV including #1 hits and gold selling soundtracks. He has worked with and for almost every major film company and network. It is his knowledge of both sides of the licensing equation that led him to start Music Supervisor Inc.
Contact: barry at musicsupervisor dot us
Julius Robinson
Director of Creative Operations
Julius toils in quiet desperation, a frustrated songwriter and screenwriter who takes out his frustrations on 
wannabe applicants. Just kidding! He oversees all creative operations including new content provider approvals, song approvals, music catalog searches for pitches on specific scenes requested by the music supervisors. Julius hires and trains all intern staff. He works closely with Barry in all facets of promotion, branding and publicity for MusicSupervisor.com.
Julius began his professional entertainment career at Paramount’s Famous Music Publishing in 1987. He went on to become West Coast Editor at the music and film trade publication Cash Box Magazine in the late eighties where he wrote cover stories on Paula Abdul, Toto and Frank Zappa. He also freelanced for Creem Metal, BMI Music World, and Entertainment Today. In the nineties, he was a publicist with International Media Network, an entertainment PR company. In the late nineties he worked as a Branding and New Product consultant for Fortune 500 companies through The Chambers Group in Los Angeles. In 2001, he founded Skywriter Productions, a film & TV film/tv song placement company, and eventually teamed with Barry Coffing at MusicSupervisor.us
Julius has co-written songs and recorded with composers Michael Jay (Celine Dion), Peter Rafelson (Madonna), Jay Gruska (Lois & Clarke), Steve Porcaro (Toto), Peter Byrne (Naked Eyes) Donna Delory (Madonna), Michael Sherwood, (Yes, Lodgic/The Key) Billy Trudel (Elton John) and Barry Coffing. Julius Robinson wrote the screenplay for the film Tortilla Heaven, starring George Lopez released in March 2007 at 80 cineplexes and theaters in Southern California and New Mexico. The film is now available on DVD and cable On Demand.
Contact: Julius at musicsupervisor us
Derek Lefholz
Director of Music Marketing/Supervision
Born to a band of traveling gypsy’s, the days were long and the nights longer. Through endless searching and self‐discovery, bouts with witches potions and aggressive natives, Derek Lefholz aka. DegreeZero developed an indigenous tongue in the music business. Finding himself on stage, at the fragile age of three, Derek sang backgrounds and jammed with seasoned musicians, including his lead vocalist father.
Through football Championship triumphs, a Bachelor’s degree in Marketing from the University of Missouri and a certification in Music Production and Engineering from the Recording Workshop(OH), Feature Film Music Supervision, studio engineering, live sound engineering, songwriting, album production, PR, artist consultation and development, distribution and don’t forget feeding the donkeys, Derek garnered an unique scope on a fickle and sometimes erratic industry.
With a move to Nashville and a partnering with the guru behind the Garth Brooks phoneme, Derek help discover and develop the intricacies for many artists at all stages in the music business. As his dance music productions reached the charts and the foundation for Derek’s freelance music marketing business was formed, his visions of a technically superior music industry became priority. With the insecurities of leaving the gypsys behind and joining the Los Angeles fray, Derek and his tribe headed West to join his compadres at MusicSupervisor.com, so that through interstellar domination they could Save the Planet with music!
Contact: Derek at musicsupervisor dot us
Wendy Marmo
Director of Music Licensing/Clearance/Coordination
Wendy’s interest in music started at about the age of 6 when she begged her mother to buy her the soundtrack to the film “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”. Her older sister heard her playing the Bee Gee’s version, took the cassette from her and introduced her to the Beatles. Her life was never the same again.
She is a closet singer songwriter by night, taking guitar lessons and singing and pretending to be Sheryl Crow in her living room.
By day, she has climbed the corporate ladder of the music industry. Her first job out of college was as the assistant to the President of Interscope Music Publishing where she got her first experience at pitching songs to artists and for film and television. She went on to work at MCA Music Publishing where she learned the fundamentals of music publishing and developed her copyright researching skills. Her position as Director of Film and TV music at MasterSource Music Catalog was allowed her to work directly with music editors and music supervisors and provide them with the music they needed for their films. She has also held management positions at Priority Records andUniversal Music Group where she became an expert in all forms of music licensing. Wendy and her husband also produced a film, “West of Brooklyn”, which was released in 09/09 by Osiris Entertainment.
She is both extremely creative and resourceful. She is moved by music, inspired by film and stimulated by business. One of her favorite things in the world is finding just the right music for behind a scene in a movie. When it’s perfect, she just gets chills. And then she also has the ability to strike the right deal and administer all the paperwork. She’s a perfect new addition to MusicSupervisor.us!
Contact: Wendy at musicsupervisor dot us
Cindi Avnet
Director of Music Placement
Cindi Avnet torments music supervisors with her relentless and nagging phone calls, always asking the same question: “What the hell are you looking for?” Seriously, she liaisons with the top music executives at all the major studios including Disney/Touchstone/ABC, Sony, Paramount, Warner Brothers, Dreamworks and others. She also works closely with most of the best-known independent and staff music supervisors working on major films/TV to determine specific song needs and to promote music from the MusicSupervisor.us system.
Cindi, cousin of director Jon Avnet, began her entertainment career working with Mitchell Leib (now President, Disney Film Music), as his executive assistant. She went on to become a successful independent song promoter for indie artists in the film/music industry before working with Julius Robinson at Skywriter Productions and MusicSupervisor.us. Cindi has placed hundreds of songs in major film and TV shows.
Contact: Cindi at musicsupervisor dot us
Pirmin Marti
Music Supervisor Inc./Switzerland
He has worked on different European movies as a music supervisor and is generally providing licensing services over in Europe even tough he lives in the US. Lately he even co-wrote some songs for an upcoming record released in Switzerland – OK just part of the lyrics, but really - who does not like a line like ”You feel like champagne, going straight to my brain”?
His brothers in crime work for the Swiss company H2U who he is affiliated with and who represents musicsupervisor.us – right smack in the middle of Europe where chocolate & cheese are real currencies. Pirmin has great contacts in Europe to new music and at the same time knows the in & outs of music supervision. A new face from the old world.
Girly Tough Chic
Gael MacGregor
Consultant
Gael started wailing in church at an early age. By age four she was actually singing in the choir instead of causing a ruckus in the pews, and by 12 was also playing the cello and piano (badly). She eventually got better and added the guitar, clarinet, flute & percussion to her repertoire since the marching band frowned on wheeling a cello down the football field. Discovering that principal cellist in an orchestra really means “frustrated opera singer” Gael decided to take her chords from the pit to the stage. She soon found out that opera folks were even more odd than those in the orchestra, so after a stint as a “folkie” decided that musical theatre might be a litter safer and saner. She was wrong, but since they were paying her, Gael performed for a number of years in dinner theatres throughout the U.S. Over the years, Gael also sang in operas, clubs & cabarets, performed in orchestras and with groups as musically diverse as R&B, blues, country, rock & big bands—becoming a virtual musicologist along the way. Gael was also honing her skills as an arranger and music copyist, so by the time she was fronting bands & touring the world on someone else’s dime, she was also annoying guitar players when she told them to take the 9th or 13th out of the chord. Back in the U.S. Gael decided being in charge of her own band was too much work for too little money, so sang back-up in the studio and on stage for everyone and their dog (including Dick Dale, Aretha Franklin & practically every Elvis impersonator you can name)—teaming up with Barry along the way.
Gael’s musical prowess has served her well in the licensing arena because she can speak musician and suit. She’s an artist who’s actually organized and can run an office as deftly as she can toss off a soulful blues lick. You didn’t think that she just sat around in-between gigs, did you? She was the Super Temp when not musically occupied.
Gael eventually landed a job at a music supervision house where she acted as music supervisor for six films and three TV series, and did music coordination and administration for many others. Gael decided she wanted the credit for her supervisory efforts, and has been working as an indie supervisor since.
Gael wears this dual hat for MusicSupervisor.us, consulting in both the creative and licensing arenas. She has licensed her own songs and recordings in film & TV so can liaison with music supervisors and artists and annoy the legal eagles about administrative & licensing details—sneaking off to record when she can spare the time, since she’d like to release her latest CD before she needs a walker onstage.
Contact: gael at musicsupervisor dot us
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