User:Gerry Alonzo Young

Gerry Young was born in Toronto Canada and graduated from Loyola College, Concordia University in Montreal in 1972.

He worked at TV Ontario (TVO) for five years upon graduation, in various television production capacities, and left in 1977 to direct episodes of CTV's W5 and CBC's Fifth Estate. Later in 1977, he was hired by international record conglomerate Polygram Inc., where he served as Promotion Manager until 1980 when he left to manage the internationally-famous pop band Martha and the Muffins, who had a world-wide hit with a song called "Echo Beach." In 1982, with Martha and the Muffins as his first signing, he formed Current Records and Management with entertainment lawyers Joseph Fodor and Brian Keevil. In 1983 Current Records and Management signed another group called The Parachute Club, who went on to international stardom with a song called "Rise Up," and achieved a number of gold and platinum records, and many Juno awards, Canada's highest musical honour.

In 1995 Gerry came up with an idea for a television series about Canadian jazz artists called "Jazzman" and went on to host and produce a ten-part half-hour documentary series for Bravo! television in Canada, featuring Canada's top jazz artists, which was subsequently sold to BET in the U.S. and Japanese television. The series was so successful that in 1996 Bravo! asked him to do a similar 10-part series on Blues, which was aptly titled "Bluesman." It too was sold to BET and Japanese television.

All this time Gerry remained President of Current Management, and continued to manage a number of upcoming Canadian recording acts. In 2011, Gerry's book, "Pop Goes The Weasel: Rock And Roll Off The Record" was published, a Rock Memoir documenting his 40 years in the music business. Published by CreateSpace, it is available at all major bookstores in North America and throughout the world, including amazon.com, Barnes and Noble, Sears and Chapters/Indigo. He has received many favourable reviews for this Rock Memoir and many of these reviews can be seen at the Current Management website at www.currentmgmt.com.

Gerry is also listed on on the movie website IMDB for his role as Music Consultant for the hit feature film "Porkys," directed by Bob Clark, and as Music Consultant for the internationally-successful TV series "Shades of Love."

Gerry currently lives in Toronto with his partner Rise Levy.