Benita Bellamy Kelley, Marketing and Public Relations Executive, CEO of the Bellamy Group and VP of U.I.A.E. Barbados is Karlos Cobham’s special guest this thoughtful FRIDAYS
Benita Bellamy Kelly is a Marketing and Public Relations executive with over 25 years of experience in the arts and entertainment. She is the founder and CEO of The Bellamy Group located in Music City USA – Nashville, TN, launched in 2008 to fill a void in the marketing and promotions sector that focused on independent music artists of all genres, authors, and faith-based and non-profit organizations. Only a few companies in the United States offer full-service marketing, promotions, and publicity like The Bellamy Group. It’s a firm with out-of-the-box creativity, executed with excellence and integrity, to empower and serve each client with a personal touch.
The Bellamy Group has managed marketing and publicity campaigns for Dove Award nominee and cross-over sensations Mali Music, Dawkins & Dawkins, Trinitee 5:7 and Livre’, Enon Music Group, Grammy and Stellar Award-winning Twinkie Clark, multiple award-winner Brian Courtney Wilson, and the legendary Queen of Disco Gloria Gaynor. The Bellamy Group has also provided marketing and publicity services for OWN Network/Lionsgate TV’s hit TV series GREENLEAF music soundtrack (2020 Stellar Award-winner and NAACP Image Award nomination), Verizon’s How Sweet The Sound Choir Competition, The American Heart Association Most Powerful Voices Competition, the God Belongs In My City National Prayer Walk, and The National Convention of Gospel Choirs and Choruses. Not limiting the company to just music and ministry, The Bellamy Group has represented authors – Bishop George Bloomer, Dr. Charley Hames, Jr., Regina Howard, Delmar Lawrence, and platinum selling, Stellar Award Hall of Fame Inductee Ben Tankard. The Bellamy Group has also contributed their innovative publicity services to actors Bre’ly Evans (The Man In 3B, Sparkle, Just Wright) and Kel Mitchell (Kenan & Kel, All That, Good
Burger).
Benita spent five years with EMI Gospel as Marketing Manager working with Stellar and Grammy Award-winning artists Smokie Norful, CeCe Winans and The Blind Boys of Alabama, Donald Lawrence and the Tri-City Singers, Bishop T.D. Jakes and the Potter’s House Choir, Aaron Neville, Darwin Hobbs, and many others.
She was Marketing and Publications Manager for Imagination Stage Performing Arts Center in Bethesda, MD and Label Manager for Sanctuary Records Group Reggae and Catalog division (Steel Pulse, Luciano, the late Gregory Isaacs). Benita also spent two years as VP of Marketing & Promotions at Light Records/eOne.
That artist roster included Shirley Caesar, J.J. Hairston & Youthful Praise, RiZen, Bishop Paul Morton, Zie’l, Coko, Evelyn Turrentine-Agee, and Judith Christie-McAllister. Benita currently serves as Vice President/Chief Marketing Officer of The Gospel Industry Network and is on the Board of Directors & VP of The United International Arts Expo, Limited of Barbados. She is an active member of The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (Grammys), National Association of Black Female Executives In Music & Entertainment (NABFEME), SAGMA (The Stellar Awards), The Gospel Music Association (GMA-Dove Awards) and serves on the GMA Diversity Committee.
Tune in to KWEST Radio for Karlos Cobham’s thoughtful FRIDAYS, February 17 at 8pm EST as we learn, share and grow together with Benita Bellamy Kelley.
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