ABOUT US

Current Management is a company, owned and operated by Gerry Young, that primarily shops demos or finished CDs to record labels and music publishing companies in Canada, the U.S. and other territories, tracks singles for artists to radio in Canada, as well as putting together movie soundtracks, and promoting musicians and other creative artists to the media on a local or national basis.

Prior to founding Current Records and Management in 1982, along with entertainment lawyer, Joseph Fodor, Gerry Young was Promotion Manager for Polygram Records Inc. (Canada) as well as Promotion Manager for General/Stoddart Publishing, the largest book trade publisher in Canada during the 1980s. After that he set up his own record label, Current Records, and management company, Current Management, and began to manage Juno-award winning bands such as Martha + the Muffins (Current/BMG), The Parachute Club (Current/BMG), Gerry Cott of The Boomtown Rats (Current/Polydor), Alta Moda (Current/Sony), featuring prominent jazz diva Molly Johnson, and Vancouver's Strange Advance (Current/EMI).

Along with those projects, Current was also able to acquire the rights to Marvin Gaye's last concert tour recordings and compiled them into a 16-song CD titled Marvin Gaye: The Last Concert Tour, which was licensed worldwide to and released by Giant/Warner Records out of Los Angeles in 1993. Gerry was also the Music Supervisor on the hit teen comedy feature film "Porky's," directed by Bob Clark.

Also during the 90's, he produced two ten-part television music documentary series for Bravo! titled Jazzman and Bluesman, which aired on Bravo!, The Learning Channel and Cool TV in Canada and was sold to BET in the U.S. as well as Japanese Television. Gerry also frequently attends the MIDEM music conference in Cannes, France, where in 2007 he licensed "A Best of Shania Twain" CD to various territories and labels around the world.

Gerry has recently finished his book "Pop Goes The Weasel: Rock'N'Roll Off The Record," which will be published in early 2011.