Richard Jason Paris
Richard Jason Paris (born November 17, 1977) also known by his truncated stage name, Rich Paris, is an American entertainment executive, MusicAL composer, television producer and internet personality.
Early Life
Paris was born and raised in New York City and is the only child of Martha and Richard Paris. Richard was known locally for shooting and directing "video shorts" and parodies with friends during his teenage years in the early 90's. Several of his first works received awards at local film festivals and were recognized at national competitions. In 1998, he was named Student of the Year by The National Broadcasting Society (Alpha Epsilon Rho) collegiate honor society.
The ABC Years
Richard Paris began at The ABC Television Network in New York as an intern during his freshman year of college and provided on-air branding and graphic design support for both ABC News and ABC Sports. At age 23, he became the youngest executive at The Walt Disney Company, placed in charge of ABC's digital outdoor media group and was instrumental in growing the business into a successful industry leading franchise.As Director of Special Projects, Richard was responsible for developing and integrating emerging technologies and interactive capabilities into ABC's marketing efforts. In addition to his business development activity, Richard produced and directed high-level presentations for the corporation's senior level executives, board members, sales entities and affiliates. Richard Paris is the Recipient of several Gold Muse statuettes from The Promax/BDA organization for his contributions to entertainment marketing.
Populi Records
In 2007, Paris started an independent New York based record company, Populi Records Inc., to create, market and distribute musical content digitally through web based media platforms such as I-Tunes and Amazon.com. As a prolific musical composer and producer, Richard operates a music rights and licensing subsidiary, Populi Music Publishing, which oversees his broadcast, publishing and performance interests. The word "Populi" is derived from the Latin word "people's."
Rich Paris And His Orchestra
The music style is of a "re-mix" sound utilizing both traditional orchestral elements and electronic musical technology. Rich Paris And His Orchestra is distributed by Paris' label, Populi Records.The debut album "Until We Meet Again," was released in 2008 to favorable reviews. The cross-over CD is an R&B musical concept album featuring a live 18 piece orchestra and vocal performers which Rich discovered utilizing MySpace and Facebook social utilities. Paris, like many music writers, is represented by ASCAP (The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers.)