Lorraine:
I am the former Executive Director of SoundExchange and helped launch it in 2001. When we started it was very small, collecting a few million dollars a year. Last year, we collected over $260 Million and it will be over $325 Million this year. If people were "background singers" or "session musicians" on recordings, they need to check out
www.raroyalties.org. Those are the folks who pay the "non-featured" musicians. But for those who produced recordings or were the featured artist on recordings, it is definitely worth checking out SoundExchange. I am currently trying to track down some estates of Motown artists as I still assist SoundExchange in searching for recording artists for whom they're holding money.
Thanks for spreading the word.
John
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