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With its acquisition of Nashville-based HoriPro Entertainment Group, the Mojo Music & Media Group is having its coming out party as a new force in independent music publishing.
While terms of the deal are undisclosed, the HoriPro catalog numbers 15,000 songs including tracks by REO Speedwagon, Kiss, Jerry Reed and George Strait, according to the announcement.
Mojo Music was started by former Spirit Music Group principals Mark Fried and Peter Shane, in conjunction with Alan Wallis, a former Ernst & Young executive. The company's website says it has offices in New York, Nashville and London. Fried had founded Spirit Music but left the company in 2015, starting Mojo Music in 2017.
"I'm thrilled to be launching a new venture with driven, like-minded partners and surrounded by some of the best songs and songwriters on the planet," Mojo Music founder and CEO Mark Fried said in a statement. "We aim to build a modern-day Brill Building, not only pitching songs and syncs like our lives depended on it but bringing our writers' songs and stories to life across traditional and new media."
According to the company announcement on the HoriPro deal, prior to making that acquisition, Mojo had acquired songs written or co-written by Artie Kornfeld, including Crispian St. Peters' "The Pied Piper" and the Cowsills' "Rain, The Park and Other Things"; Johnny Burke, including the song he added lyrics to, Johnny Mathis' "Misty"; Bernie Wayne, including Bobby Vinton's "Blue Velvet"; and Paul Evans, including Vinton's "Roses Are Red"; and Bobby Robinson, including the Fearless Four's "Rockin It."
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