Porfirio Piña
Porfirio Piña, talent manager, entrepreneur, music advocate and artistic director. He is a native of the Dominican Republic, currently based out of New York City, and Miami.
Career
Porfirio currently serves as the senior director of the Latin division for BMI, Broadcast Music Inc. Founded in 1939, BMI is an American performing rights organization that represents more than 350,000 songwriters, composers and music publishers in all genres of music. Porfirio is also a partner at Ritmo Loco Publishing, Inc., advising artists and managing catalog of more than one hundred songs, arranging co-publishing deals for Latin America, Europe and Asia, as well as issuing licenses to record labels, TV networks and film companies. In 2005, Mr. Pina signed Ritmo Loco Publishing to an administrative deal with publishing giant Sony/ATV.Before joining BMI, Mr. Piña managed Nicolas Tovar who has written numerous hits for Cristian Castro, Paulina Rubio, Ricky Martin, La India, and Jaci Velasquez among others.
Mr. Pina began his music business career back in 1989, forming and managing the first-ever Merengue Hip-Hop group Proyecto Uno. Under Porfirio's management the group went on to receive numerous Gold and Platinum Records Awards in the USA, Mexico, Central America, Venezuela, Colombia, Chile, Argentina and Spain, Billboard Awards, Premio Lo Nuestro Awards, Orquidea de Oro, ACE Awards, El Casandra Awards and Latin Grammy Nominations.
In 1995, together with a former partner Porfirio created Double P Music, a management and production company, that played a key role in forming, launching and managing various artists such as El Chipo ; Sandy & Papo MC ; Joselito and Ilegales. Together they created and produced remixes for Juan Luis Guerra, Enrique Iglesias, Los Hermanos Rosario, Roy Tavare, Amparo Sandino, Checo Acosta and others successful international artists.
Between January 2001 and May 2002, Porfirio joined Palm Pictures/Ryko and later Latino Music Corp where he was the Marketing Director, developing strategic sales, marketing and promotion plans for Carlos Manuel y Su Clan, Fernando Villalona, Felix D'Oleo, Angelito Villalona, Ramón Orlando and Swing Divino amongst others.
Speaking engagements
- NALIP: Synch Licensing 101
- FUNGLODE: Placing Your Music in TV/Film & Synch Licenses
- Berklee College of Music: The Business of Music
- Latin Alternative Music Conference: Radio Relevance-The Role of AM/FM Stations in the Digital Age
- Monroe College: Entrepreneurship & Marketing Class
- Brooklyn College: How Multicultural Marketing Influences Your World
- Brooklyn College: How Multicultural Marketing Influences Your World
- Boston Music Conference: Copyright and Performing Rights 101
- Billboard Latin Conferences: BMI & Berklee College of Music: Music Business 101 Roundtable
- Berklee College of Music: The Business of Songwriting
- Celia Cruz High School of Music: Latin Grammy en las Escuelas
- Billboard Latin Conferences: How I Wrote That Song
- Moderator of BMI Presents: Industry Insider Series
- University of Miami – School of Music: Grammy Career Seminar
- El Museo del Barrio: Merengue Popular Music and the Industry
- NALIP: Roundtable Film Producers and the Music Business
- Latin Alternative Music Conference: The Future of the Latin Music Industry
- Mandelbaum Music Project: Music Business Careers
- Billboard Latin Conferences: The Latin Music Industry Future