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The CML Media and Entertainment Group and its founder Carlos M. Leon are entering the world of music with the creation of CML Music, the new record label division of the company. The label was first announced this past summer at the anniversary red carpet party of CML Studios, the production facility of the company, with DJ Big Syphe of Power 106 FM, one of the top radio stations in the country.
"The goal of CML Music is to use all of our resources as a company and bring a team with a wealth of experience in the industry to nurture, produce and promote the best talent Los Angeles has to offer", says CML Music CEO Carlos Leon. The label counts with the backing of CML Productions, a full service multimedia and marketing company and CML Studios, a full production facility in North Hollywood, CA. The company has years of experience in all aspects of the industry from online marketing and video production to organizing red carpet events and promotional parties. It also has a media group of dozens of talented music producers, directors and editors on it's roster. CML Music, the record label division of the CML Media and Entertainment Group is announcing it's executive team. The team of four young dynamic individuals includes an entrepreneur, manager and two music producers.
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Carlos M. Leon - Founder and CEO
  Carlos has been involved in several aspects of the entertainment industry for several years. At the age of 20 after graduating from Full Sail University in Orlando, Florida, he opened a web design company in Orange County, California working for small to mid-size companies developing branding, web content and other marketing material. Within three years he was launching Gentevision, an online Spanish channel covering A-list entertainment events in the Latin industry at an event from Universal Studios City Walk in Hollywood, CA. Shortly after, he opened up CML Studios, a full Video and Photo production Studio that shoots commercials, music videos, short films, and photo campaigns in North Hollywood, CA.
 He has worked with major companies including Warner Brothers, New Line Cinema, VH1 and MTV and with names as big as The Smashing Pumpkins and Warner Brothers recording artist "Hot Hot Heat". His clients come from every major city in the US and as far as Australia, London and Dubai. He was recently named one of America's Best Entrepreneurs under 25 by BusinessWeek magazine and called a "media mogul in the making". He has been featured in various publications including Yahoo! Finance, AOL Small Business and the Miami Herald.
He has also promoted and helped organize major successful red carpet events at some of Hollywood's top clubs and venues. He hopes to use the resources he has compiled in the past few years to enter the world of music and this will certainly be enhanced by the strong management and producing team behind CML Music. "The goal of CML Music is to use all of our resources as a company and bring a team with a wealth of experience in the industry to nurture, produce and promote the best talent Los Angeles has to offer", says CML Music CEO Carlos Leon
Ryan Freel - COO and Management
 Hailing from Jacksonville, Florida, Ryan Freel brings a strong solid background to CML Music. He has been involved with the southern rap and Hip Hop market and has done wonders in the artist management portion of the record business. Before recently moving to Los Angeles and joining CML Music, Ryan managed the Bread Boyz, a highly successful rap group from Florida.
 He took the group from regional success at local clubs to nationwide acclaim opening up for some of the biggest names in the genre including Rick Ross, Lil Boosie, Young Jeezy, Shop Boyz, Plies, Juvenile, Webbie and Fox, at some of Florida's most important venues. The Bread Boyz topped off their success by doing a re-mix with Rick Ross and Hurricane Chris and through Ryan's contacts and connections managed to get their single on rotation on some of Florida's biggest radio stations including 93.3 FLZ FM, 92.7 Da Beat FM, Movin' 100.7 and 97.9 Kiss FM. To top it all of, they were in the lineup for the multi-million dollar "Hypnotized" concert tour in the Spring of 2008 and were featured on a full color spread on the prestigious Ozone Magazine, called the "southern voice for hip hop music".
 With a natural talent in marketing, business and talent management, Ryan solidified the foundation for his work studying at one of the top sports and entertainment management programs at Flagler College, a private school in Florida that is ranked in the top 40 out of 400 programs across the U.S.
Ryan has done everything from management of photographers, producing photo shoots to leading sales efforts for a clothing line and co-producing a feature film in Hollywood. CML Music and Carlos Leon are excited to have Ryan as part of our team.
 The producing team known as "Mastermind Music" is joining CML Music as in-house producers and collaborators. "Mastermind Music" is a production team that consists of Michael Morales & Victor Aburto. Together they produce music and show great potential in being great producers in the music industry. The duo, friends from middle school, have produced for many musical artists such as Ese Daz, J-Smooth, 4Most, Cash Rules, Curtis King, Cavieye, and many others.
 Michael "Ghost" Mora les
A native of Bridgetown, Michael started making music at 16 years old on a Casio keyboard sampling music from different artists using the fruity loops software. Growing up he had a family with many musical tastes such as Latin music, oldies, jazz and rock. His skills include playing the keyboard, trumpet and drums as well as producing beats. Michael's musical influences include everyone from Stevie Wonder, Simply Red, Buena Vista Social Club, Dr. Dre, Timbo, Quik, Premo, Rolling Stones and Rick Rubin to the Beatles, Kanye West, B. Cox, Ryan Leslie, J.R. Rotem, Swiff D, and Fisticuffs Productions.
He hopes to make this new experience and partnership a good one and expand his music knowledge by bringing new ideas and knowledge to the table. Michael also has a music production company selling beats, recording and producing for several acts.
Victor "ImFamous" Aburto
A native of San Pedro, CA, Michael has had a passion for music since a very young age. After hearing Rapper Snoop Dog's debut album "Doggystyle", he decided to start making music in 2002 at the age of 16 on an old Yamaha keyboard. Music for him has always been a big part of his life and his influences are some of the big time producers in the game like Dr. Dre, Timbaland, Mannie Fresh, Polow Da Don, DJ Quik, Scott Storch and Dj Toomp as well as Kanye West and Just Blaze.
His skills include playing the keyboard and producing beats as well as rapping and performing. "Every producer wants to rap at some point in their life", says Victor who is the brother of "J Smooth" a local Hip Hop & Reggaeton artist. He also has a music production company selling beats, recording and producing for several local acts.
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