Mike Curb, Joe Scaife, LaRawn Scaife Rhea

Cecil Scaife

MIKE CURB RECEIVES VISIONARY AWARD

NASHVILLE — Noted Nashvillian and music industry leader, Mike Curb, has received The Cecil Scaife Visionary Award for 2008 the Scaife family announced today.

Passionate about the music industry and education, Cecil Scaife, a Music Row pioneer and veteran, was instrumental in the formation of the music business program at Belmont University that is now known as the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business.

It was Scaife’s vision to see Belmont produce successful musicians, artists, and music business executives by giving students an opportunity to formally learn about the industry that was so fulfilling and exciting for him.

“Mike Curb has taken the seeds that my father planted and sown them around the world through the Mike Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business with campuses in Nashville, Los Angeles, and New York,” said Scaife’s daughter LaRawn Scaife Rhea, adding, “it is only appropriate that Mike Curb is the inaugural recipient of this award. His generosity and vision have made it possible for future generations to realize careers in the music industry.”

Mike Curb, Chairman of Curb Records, has also been instrumental in the preservation of many of Music Row’s most famous landmarks. Curb’s gifts to the program of historic RCA Studio B, Quonset Hut, and Ocean Way studios have made it possible for students to study and learn their craft in these legendary settings.

Curb received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame earlier in the year and is a multiple award winning songwriter, producer, and performing artist.

The Curb College of Entertainment and Music Business has been declared by TIME and Rolling Stone magazines as one of the top two music business schools in the nation.