Jay Faires
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Jay Faires is President of Music at Lionsgate. Transforming the division into a leading independent music company, Faires’ team has received two Oscar ® nominations with Marco Beltrami’s score for 3:10 to Yuma and Bird York’s song “In The Deep” for Best Picture Winner Crash. He has brought in new music from Dr. Dre, Elvis Costello, John Legend, James Blunt, The Flaming Lips, Linkin Park, Amy Winehouse and recently, Serj Tankian for the main title of NBC’s upcoming series Fear Itself. Faires has overseen music on more than 10 television series including the Golden Globe ® winning hits Weeds and Mad Men and the upcoming series Crash, which will be scored by Mark Isham, the composer of the Oscar ® winning film that inspired the show.
On the film front, he has overseen music for over 30 productions including the upcoming features My Best Friend’s Girl, Punisher: War Zone, and The Lucky Ones. He is also developing the division’s artist signings such as Grammy ® winning reggae legend Lee Scratch Perry, three-time International Bluegrass Music Association ® award winners The Infamous Stringdusters, and Glacier Hiking. Recent soundtracks include the top 10 iTunes album for Iron Man. Weeds and Mad Men soundtracks are forthcoming through Lionsgate and Blue Note. Faires is creating new exploitation platforms for Lionsgate’s music operations through innovative partnerships such as their recent licensing venture with Getty Images. Under his stewardship, Lionsgate has more than doubled the asset value of its music publishing operations.
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[edit] Mammoth Records/Baby New Year Music (BNYM)
Prior Lionsgate, Faires spent 15 years building his label and publishing businesses Mammoth Records and BNYMusic. He continues to work closely with key Mammoth songwriters and acquired blues catalog Black Top (including songs by Buckwheat Zydeco and Solomon Burke) and many of the works of David Bowie. Faires built Mammoth from scratch outside of the musical epicenters of LA, NY and Nashville. Selling nearly 100 million dollars worth of recorded music, he had the only alternative independent label before 2006 to take two artists platinum in Seven Mary Three and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. After placing 3 acts in the top 3 of MTV's charts, he sold the label to The Walt Disney company for over 40 times the label's initial investment. Shortly after, he executive produced Free Tibet in conjunction with the Beastie Boys, featuring iconic acts such as Red Hot Chili Peppers and Rage Against the Machine.
[edit] Education
Faires earned a Bachelors degree with Honors from The University of the South where he was Young Alumnus of the Year in 2000 and will begin serving on the University's Board of Trustees in October. He received his MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University where he gave the keynote address at the inauguration of their Center for Entrepreneurship in 2006. He sits on the board of the Association of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP).
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