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Vera Bohl is a Songwriter, Performer and Music Business Entrepreneur born in Düsseldorf, Germany on 5 July 1980.

Early career
In 2001 Vera founded the independent Music TV show Blend TV which was broadcast on Berlin station TD1. The show’s guests included [[Franz Ferdinand (band), Peter Bjorn and John, Fettes Brot, The Kills and Die Sterne.

Move to London
In 2005 Vera moved to London, UK to follow her musical endeavours. She completed a BA (Hons) Commercial Music at The University of Westminster and went on to a Masters degree in Art & Science at Central Saint Martins, where she was a contributor to the 'Live in Your Dreams' exhibition in 2014.

Her artist Project BB and Boys Brigade featured Arni Arason (bass) who would go on to join The Vaccines, Davik Klinke (guitar), who would later perform with George Ezra, and Simeon Rodgers (drums). The band played at End of the Road Festival 2010 and recorded several performances for PRS and TV performances.

In 2008 she won The Hospital Club's Creatives in Residence competition. and became manager of Paul Allen’s (Microsoft) and Dave Stewart's (Eurythmics ) Hospitals’ Creatives in Residence programme. CIR 2011-2012 by vera bohl - issuu In 2009 Vera worked with the Roy Orbison Enterprise on a version of her song Best Friend performed at the Gibson Showrooms in London. The song is included on the Album Roy Orbison ‘Under The Covers’.http://indreamsonly.blogspot.com/2009/05/roy-orbison-under-covers-birthday_22.html https://www.pandora.com/artist/vera-bohl/roy-orbison-under-the-covers/best-friend/TR9JJf2z3hbz9g2

Studioweek
In 2008, Vera set up music management company Studioweek which led to a number of art and music projects. Vera worked with artist Kate Garner, former singer with Haysi Fantayzee https://www.hamhigh.co.uk/education/real-life-pop-art-by-former-music-star-on-show-in-hampstead-1-1137641, and managed the production of the classical charity single Lullaby for Prince George,  which raised money for the Cruse Bereavement Care charity. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2673591/Prince-set-charts-Prince-George-music-giant-Sony-risks-accusations-cashing-charity-birthday-lullaby-backed-Kate-Queen.html

In 2013 Vera gained a BPI Silver Record Award for her work on Dido’s [Love To Blame’ Track on the album Girl Who Got Away in 2015.

Higher Education
Vera has lectured at several UK Universities in the field and Music Entrepreneurship, Music Businesses and Music Performance. She was the business course Leader at SAE London in 2014 and Head of Education for the British and Irish Modern Music Institute (BIMM) in London and Berlin from 2016 to 2018.

Return to Berlin
Vera is passionate about mentoring and empowering the next generation of music practitioners. She was a mentor on the 2017 mentoring program of  VUT https://www.vut.de/musikwirtschaft/aktuelles-musikwirtschaft/artikel/details/die-mentorinnen-des-2-vut-mentoring-programms/ and panellist on the Reeperbahn Festival industry talks https://www.bimm-institute.de/news/bimm-berlin-reeperbahn-festival/ Vera co-founded the Universal Music Publishing Edition Boy Wonder www.boy-wonder.de in Berlin in 2017 with John P*NUT Harrison http://www.pnutmusic.co.uk/. For Boy Wonder she writes, manages, sources and publishes musical copyright.