Lyor Cohen, global head of music for YouTube and Google, and Diane Warren, songwriter extraordinaire, took the stage of the Musikaliska Kvarteret theater in Stockholm on Monday (May 23) to be inter…
, songwriter extraordinaire, took the stage of the Musikaliska Kvarteret theater in Stockholm on Monday to be interviewed by Swedish journalist Jan Gradvall. Their appearance was part of the Polar Talks, a day of conversations annually based on the theme “the power of music,” according to Marie Ledin, managing director of Sweden’s Polar Music Prize.
Cohen hired a new trio called Run-DMC to headline a local gig. Joseph Simmons, known as DJ Run, called his brother Russell, co-founder of Def Jam with Rick Rubin, and said he should hire Cohen to work for the band. Cohen flew to New York and immediately was sent to London. “That’s how I became their tour manager for three-and-a-half years. If I hadn’t gone to New York, what would I have done? I have no clue.
“I know it sounds strange that I went from traditional media to YouTube. They’re still trying to figure out why I’m there and why I’m reasonably successful. To me, I’m the music person that happens to work at YouTube and Google. I like to put things together and so last week we had an off-site in London and I had the music industry meet the head of engineering, the head of product and the head of user experience and I got out of the way and let them build beautiful products.
With equal good humor, Warren responded to a question about being a 13-time loser at the Academy Awards. She quipped about it being the all-time record for a female in the almost 100-year history of the Oscars. But then she added, “It’s alright. There are only five songs nominated out of hundreds of songs written for movies every year. That is a win for me.”
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