Fiona Bloom
{{Short description|American music industry publicist}}
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Fiona Bloom is a music industry publicist who runs the New York City agency The Bloom Effect.{{cite web|title=Fiona Bloom- putting energy in entertainment|date=20 December 2007|url=http://rollingout.com/update/Fiona-Bloom-putting-energy-in-entertainment/|publisher=Rollingout.Com|accessdate=October 19, 2011}}
Early life
Bloom grew up in St John's Wood, London.{{cite journal|url=http://patch.com/new-york/bed-stuy/the-bloom-effect|title=Fiona and the Bloom Effect|publisher=patch.com|date=10 July 2012|accessdate=10 December 2014}} She took piano lessons as a child and trained to be a concert pianist.{{cite journal|url=http://www.bkreader.com/2014/08/story-time-at-butterfly-7/|title=Story Time at Butterfly 7|journal=The Brooklyn Reader|date=8 August 2014|accessdate=10 December 2014}} She moved to the U.S. after her father moved to Atlanta, Georgia for business reasons. She started training as a disk jockey and worked at college radio in Georgia State University.
Career
After receiving a degree in Speech Communications, Bloom began her professional career in 1991 at WSTR FM as the station's assistant music director,{{cite web|url=http://www.femmixx.com/fionainterview.html |title=Interview Fiona Bloom |publisher=Femmixx.com |date= |accessdate=2011-10-19}} and she also served as an on-air personality.{{cite web|url=http://www.danaroc.com/inspiring_091007fionabloom.html |title=Fiona Bloom | Inspiring People | Living Louder |publisher=DanaRoc.com |date=2006-10-19 |accessdate=2011-10-19}}
In 1994, EMI Records head Daniel Glass appointed her to the position of Director of New Artist Marketing. After working at EMI, Bloom served as the Director of Media Relations at Zero Hour Records. She started her own subsidiary record label, called 3-2-1, in 1996.{{cite web|url=http://www.danaroc.com/ezine_102609_web.html#inspiring|title=International Marketer, World Citizen, Connector, Producer - Fiona Bloom|date=2009-10-26|accessdate=2011-10-19|publisher=www.danaroc.com}}https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionabloom {{Self-published source|date=June 2022}}
Bloom started her agency The Bloom Effect in 2007. That year, she was named Top Consultant/Strategist of the Year by the National Association of Recording Industry Professionals (NARIP).{{Cite web|url=http://www.narip.com/?p=176|title=NBC Entertainment Marketing Preditor Mallam Finds "Gold Mine of Music" at NARIP Pitch Session}}{{cite web|url=http://www.soultracks.com/story-tp-fiona |title=Fiona Bloom Interview | SoulTracks - Soul Music Biographies, News and Reviews |publisher=SoulTracks |date=2008-08-25 |accessdate=2011-10-19}} Her agency represents acts including Jesse Clegg and Wayna, who was subsequently nominated for a Grammy Award.{{cite news|url=http://www.bbcamerica.com/mind-the-gap/2013/12/11/british-expat-month-fiona-bloom/|title=British Expat of the Month: Fiona Bloom, Publicist Extraordinaire|first=James|last=Bartlett|work=BBC America|date=11 December 2013|accessdate=10 December 2014}}
In 2013, Bloom set up StoryTime, a twice-weekly children's book reading session which now runs at Butterfly 7, a children's store in Brooklyn. She says the sessions are "very interactive" and have a musical element.
Notes
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References
- [http://soultrain.com/2013/01/03/fiona-bloom-the-bloom-effect/ Soul Train]
- [http://soultrain.com/2014/01/13/soultrain-com-power-20/ Soul Train]
- [http://rollingout.com/entertainment/fiona-bloom-putting-energy-in-entertainment/#_ Rolling Out]
- [https://books.google.com/books?id=EYjb5ZmougQC&pg=PT62]
External links
- [http://thebloomeffect.com/ Official site]
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