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Tommy Davidson started his career as a stand-up comedian in Washington DC, earning an ardent following with sheer hard work in various comedy clubs. As one of the cutting-edge, young stand-ups, he was spotted by major concert promoters, who booked him as the opening act for A-list touring acts, including Patti LaBelle, Kenny G and Luther Vandross. It wasn't long before he came to Hollywood and was performing stand-up at a number of clubs, including the Comedy Act Theatre, where he met Robert Townsend. This led to his first national television appearance, with a starring role in Partners in Crime (2005) and was the conduit to Keenen Ivory Wayans, who proved instrumental in Davidson's career by offering him an opportunity to audition and join the uniquely talented cast of the most adventurous prime-time variety show of its day, In Living Color (1990). He, Jamie Foxx, Jim Carrey and Damon Wayans made TV history with their originality.
in this revealing memoir, Tommy Davidson shares his unique perspective on making it in Hollywood, being an integral part of television history, on fame and family, and on living a life that has never been black and white—just funny and true . . .
Abandoned as an infant on the streets of Greenville, Mississippi, and rescued by a loving white family, Tommy Davidson spent most of his childhood unaware that he was different from his brother and sister. All that changed as he came of age in a society of racial barriers—ones that he was soon to help break. On a fledgling network, Tommy joined the cast of In Living Color, alongside other relative newcomers all united by an ingenious throng of Wayans siblings, poised to break new ground.
Now Tommy gives readers the never-before-told behind-the-scenes story of the first show born of the Hip Hop Nation: from its incredible rise, to his own creation of such unforgettable characters as Sweet Tooth Jones and dead-on impressions of Sammy Davis, Jr., Michael Jackson, M.C. Hammer and Sugar Ray Leonard, and appearing in such classic sketches as “Homie The Clown,” the “Hey Mon, family,” and the “Ugly Woman,” through guest-star skirmishes (and black eyes) to backstage tensions and the eventual fall of this pop-culture touchstone. He reveals his own nascent career on the stand-up circuit, as well as reflections on working with Spike Lee, Halle Berry, Chris Rock, and Jada Pinkett Smith. He also shares his very personal story of living with—and being inspired and empowered by—two distinct family histories.
Told with humor and hard-won honesty, Living in Color is a bracing, illuminating, and remarkable success story.

Darren Prince is a sports and celebrity agent who, at the age of 14, founded a mail order company selling baseball cards and traveling around the country participating in trade shows. At the age of 20 he sold his company and became an industry leader in private autograph signings for sports and celebrity memorabilia with athletes and celebrities. A-List celebrities included Muhammad Ali, Hulk Hogan, Pele, Joe Montana, Carmen Electra and Jenny McCarthy.

In 1995 Prince started a new venture with Prince Marketing Group (PMG), representing athletes and celebrities for marketing deals consisting of endorsements, licensing, TV, movie and book deals, autograph signings and appearances. His first client to sign with the firm was none other than Magic Johnson. Soon after Smokin’ Joe Frazier, Dennis Rodman, Pamela Anderson and Chevy Chase followed.

With PMG growing at an enormous pace, Prince added Scottie Pippen, Clyde Drexler, Mickey Rourke, Roy Jones Jr, Micky Ward and the late Evel Knievel as clients over the years. “The sports/entertainment industry is a small world and very competitive,” says Darren Prince, CEO of Prince Marketing Group. “Prince Marketing Group has prospered over the years by delivering out of the box thinking for clients and building relationships through the practice of good business and effective networking.”

Prince Marketing Group is currently a multi-million dollar business that has negotiated over $200 Million in deals and currently secures marketing deals, arranges signing/memorabilia appearances, commercial licensing, product endorsement, and voice-overs. Darren is a true entrepreneur as he has been able to continuously reinvent himself and significantly grow his business over the years. He has been featured in outlets such as Your World With Neil Cavuto, The Big Idea with Donny Deutsch, CNN’s Anderson Cooper 360, Hannity & Colmes, ESPN, New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, USA Today, Forbes’ Sports Money, On the record with Greta Van Susteren, Howard Stern radio, CNBC The Closing Bell and a variety of others for his marketing expertise.
Darren Prince, International Best Selling author of his memoir “Aiming High” is a prominent sports and celebrity agent and global advocate for addiction and recovery. Through his agency, Prince Marketing Group, he represents icons such as Magic Johnson, Hulk Hogan, Charlie Sheen, Dennis Rodman, Chevy Chase, Denise Richards, Carmen Electra, the late Joe Frazier, Muhammad Ali and Evel Knievel to name a few.

As a leading authority in this space, his insights have been featured in WSJ, NYT, USA Today, CNN, Fox and Friends, Tucker Carlson and Dr. OZ. From selling his first business at 19 to building a multimillion-dollar talent agency, Darren has experience what life is like in the celebrity world. Unfortunately, he also saw the dark reality of addiction through his own personal struggle. After over 12 years of sobriety, it’s now Darren’s mission to help others avoid and break free from addiction.

Through his new cause, he has become a sought after speaker on addiction recovery and mental health. He specializes in helping high functioning addicts and at-risk executives to identity and avoid the pitfalls of addiction and working with teens of self esteem and self worth.
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Multi-award-winning social media expert & influencer. Co-Founder of BusinessOwnerSociety.com and CEO of Brand Branding PR LLC. getty The world as we know it seems to have changed overnight. None of us have experienced a global pandemic on this scale, with so many businesses forced to shut down to help stop Covid-19 from spreading. But from great adversity comes great opportunity. It’s time to adapt to survive, and social media marketing can help businesses withstand this storm
Armed with an arsenal of varied skills and experience, Sophie has helped both new start-ups and existing businesses to communicate the right brand message to their constantly evolving target audience, build brand awareness and increase market share. Sophie is an official member of the Forbes Agency Council, and is an award-winning social media influencer. In October 2019, Sophie won a MarCom award recognizing her as the best social media influencer building awareness for local businesses.

Head hunted for the PR Executive role of a major UK magazine aged 18 (The Big Issue), Sophie went on to build a successful career as an event promotions manager in London. Sophie worked on some major events including album launch parties for Kanye West and John Legend, as well as organizing annual parties for huge clients such as FHM Magazine and launching new products for global powerhouses including Jean Paul Gaultier.

Sophie's first business, a global entertainment agency, was nominated for 3 prestigious business awards including Business Innovation, and was selected as 1 of 6 companies to be showcased by Richard Branson for his Back of an envelope campaign. Sophie went on to become a business mentor and guest judge for The Young Enterprise - an entrepreneurial program for young people in schools and colleges across the United Kingdom.

Sophie's Social Media clients will on average see their engagement rise organically by as much as 500% within 3 months.

Sophie is currently based in Miami, where she’s a regular ‘Hero’ at Miami Ad School teaching advertising students all of the social media tricks of the trade.

Undaunted by grim prognosis, college softball star vows to return to the field
An ever-driven college softball star was unwilling to accept her prognosis.
On April 18th 2015, two former Division 1 college softball players were involved in a collision on the base paths during an A10 conference matchup. The collision between the two players resulted in a life changing injury for Bella Picard and a life changing perspective for Allie Bradian.
Bella Picard broke her neck and was temporarily paralyzed on the right side of her body. Her hashtag became #BRINGBACKTHERIGHTSIDE in hopes of making a full recovery in gaining back function in her right side. Every post from Bella on Instagram and Facebook kept her friends and family updated on her progress and the many setbacks she was faced with during her long road to recovery. Bella Picard's determination and relentless spirit has now inspired the nation to view life from a completely different perspective, the perspective of an All-American athlete with a bright future who's entire identity was stripped away from her in seconds. Today, Bella can walk and use her right arm. Her injury has left her with right sided drop foot, neurologic toning in her right wrist, fingers, and both biceps, along with a neurogenic bladder and Autonomic Dysreflexia. She continues to fight for a full recovery today.
Bella's injury took away what she thought she was born to do; become the greatest athlete she could possibly be. Over 3 years of fighting, Bella has came up with something even bigger than just her recovery, the #BRINGBACKTHERIGHTSIDE DIARY is an inspirational video series featuring the several amazing human beings who she has met since her life changing injury. The people who she will be featuring in each chapter are individuals who have positively influenced her recovery and those who significantly impacted and helped her get through some of the darkest moments in her recovery.
This is CHAPTER 1 of the #BRINGBACKTHERIGHTSIDE DIARY series, starting with the player who she collided with. CHAPTER 1 captures the very first open discussion between the two former softball players about what happened that day, how both players healed from the tragedy, how their lives changed and how they individually chose to rise above the traumatic incident to seek a greater purpose: to help others who need healing, and to inspire athletes around the world to play for a bigger purpose, to play for those who can't and to play with gratitude and respect for their game.
Bella Picard and Allie Bradian have now developed an unlikely friendship 3 years after the collision on the base paths. Please watch what these two strong women have to say about their experience and how they dealt with pain, heartache, guilt, sadness, and feeling a loss of identity after the game of softball became a sore subject from the result of the collision in April of 2015.

Neon Hitch (born May 25, 1986 in Nottingham, United Kingdom) is an English singer, currently living in London.Hitch was raised in a romani family of circus performers. Prior to leaving at the age of 15, she traveled Europe performing as a fire dancer and a trapeze artist.

Hitch was previously the flatmate of Amy Winehouse.Hitch has performed alongside 50 Cent and The Streets. Along with Ke$ha, Sean Foreman, and Benny Blanco she wrote the song Blah Blah Blah. In 2010, she also collaborated with 3OH!3 on "Follow Me Down", for the Tim Burton Disney movie Alice in Wonderland.

Hitch is a client of American producer Benny Blanco and is currently working on her debut album tentatively titled "Beg, Borrow and Steal." Songfacts.com reports that the album's lead single, "Love U Betta", became her first #1 as a solo artist when the tune hit the top of the USA Dance Club Songs chart in its sixth week.
British singer-songwriter Neon Hitch’s life has been about as normal as her name would suggest. “The day I was born, my house burnt down; the day I left home, the Twin Towers burnt down; and I lived in a jungle in India at 15,” she says. “I have done my fair share of traveling, that’s for sure.” No kidding—she spent the majority of her younger years as a gypsy, circling the globe (and living in a bus) with her mom and sister as a street performer and trapeze artist, while her lighting-artist dad toured with the likes of David Bowie, Duran Duran, and Annie Lennox. “I was always a bit of a showgirl; it was in my blood (and my name),” she confesses. “I never thought I would have a career as a singer, though.”

In December, Hitch took the stage at Madison Square Garden with Gym Class Heroes—quite a coup for any musician—but the road to that sacred stage was not an easy one. After the label she was signed with, The Beats Recordings, shut down in 2007, things started to fall apart for the songstress. Hitch found herself homeless, until her “long-lost sister” Amy Winehouse took her in. In a moment of luck, Benny Blanco’s manager James Johnson messaged her on MySpace when he liked what he heard. Cut to today, and her future is looking neon bright. She’s signed a recording deal and her catchy debut album (Beg, Borrow, and Steal), produced by Blanco (who has also worked with pop princesses Britney Spears, Ke$ha, and Katy Perry), is due out late this summer. She co-wrote “Blah Blah Blah” with Ke$ha for her No. 1 album Animal and has also worked with Miike Snow, Sky Ferreira, and Mike Posner. Currently, she’s touring with Gym Class Heroes, singing their iTunes chart-topping single, “Ass Back Home.” Today, her single “Fuck U Betta” [below] hits the pop radio airwaves. We caught up with the sassy Brit over the phone to hear about living with Winehouse (Hitch now has an “Amy” tattoo on her finger as a tribute), opening for 50 Cent, and whom she would like to collaborate with next.