HEART SONGS MUSIC GROUP - Key Persons
Bailey James is lighting up Music City with her sophisticated soulful country music. Currently charting on BILLBOARD with her new single "Finally Free", Bailey is poised to break out this year. It is hard to fathom that at 18 years of age, Bailey James can bring a crowd to their knees. Much like Patsy Cline she can hypnotize you with her incredible vocal styling and bluesy riffs. Her swiftly growing audience celebrates her fresh musical adaptation that is well beyond her years. including country roots infused with blues, rock-n-roll and soul.
One of the hardest working young ladies in the music industry with 16 singles and an ep during her six year tenor in Nashville. all released since turning 12 years old. She has laid it down at the legendary Bluebird Cafe, Douglas Corner, The Listening Room, Wildhorse Saloon and has been featured at WSM, home of the Grand Ole Opry Radio Station.
A multi-genre vocalist, guitarist and songwriter with over 250,000 fans across her social media platforms, Bailey had her current single recently named "Opry Circle Release of the Week." Bailey, a radio road warrior, has charted numerous times on Music Row's Country Breakout Chart, including a top 40. She is also a Golden Ticket alum of American Idol 2019. Bailey has the honor of being a member of the Song Suffragettes, an all-female country music singer-songwriter weekly showcase in Nashville.
In addition, this rising country songstress and social media sensation was appointed as the first National Youth Advocate for The Jason Foundation. She is dedicated to raising awareness for suicide prevention through education and empowerment on behalf of this important non-profit organization both in her live shows and across her social media. This honor places Bailey alongside longtime Jason Foundation musical ambassadors, Rascal Flatts and the late Charlie Daniels. She has her feet firmly planted in the country music community. Bailey most recently started her own podcast and mental health awareness platform, The Finally Free Movement.
Devon O'Day has made an impressive mark within the music industry through her songwriting credits and collaborations. She has major songwriting credits with songs by some of the biggest artists in the industry such as Lee Ann Womack, Dolly Parton, Hank Williams, Jr, Pam Tillis, Neal McCoy, Trace Adkins, and George Strait. Her biggest feat within her songwriting career is her credit for a #1 George Strait song called "The Big One" which she co-wrote with Gerry House. O'Day thrives on supporting and elevating independent artists within the industry.
Devon O'Day has been in radio since 1976 when she started on air at KRRV-FM in Alexandria, LA as a country music jock, then KPAL in Pineville where she did news and sports, then KNOE in Monroe as a rock jock while attending University of Louisiana Monroe.
After graduation she moved to New York, where she studied Voice-Acting at the Wiest-Barron Studio before moving to Nashville in 1986 where she began working middays at WSIX. After a year, and a huge campaign with the listening audience Gerry House was brought back to mornings in a huge press push and Devon was offered the job as Gerry House's producer.
Eighteen years as producer, on-air chuck with the House Foundation, and a daily entertainment segment on America's most popular and first nationally syndicated country morning show. That connection led to Devon's work with Premiere Radio as country music interviewer providing material for all their country music shows. Then a role with Gerry on America's Number Ones and Saturday Night House Party (America's first live Saturday Night syndicated show in the country format). While with premiere she created a comedy country news service called Music Rhoda. Then she joined Huntsman Entertainment as host of nationally syndicated Country Hitmakers and voiced specials for Garth, Dixie Chicks, Kenny Chesney, Trace Adkins, Bill Gaither and many more.
Leaving the House Foundation, she created Country Spirit, a Sunday morning show at WSIX and a talk show on WLAC called Plain Jane Wisdom. She left WSIX and WLAC (both in the Capstar/iHeart family) to work at Mix929 as a utility player filling in on mornings, evenings, news, production, and wherever needed. Devon also took a job with the Spirit Channel at the launch of SIRIUS Satellite radio when they opened Nashville offices in 2003. Her last full-time radio gig was WSM where she held down afternoon drive, first with Nan Kelly then moving into the solo host position for the remaining 4 years interviewing over two hundred artists and guests and creating podcasts of the interviews.
She currently works with Main Street Media as Creator of New Media where she has launched a podcast network or radio on demand, a streaming show called Main Street Today, and is working on several new media platforms to create broadcast content in the digital and device driven world.
Devon O'Day has been in front of a microphone since 1976 and continues to create broadcast content for use at radio stations around the country and online, most recently The Lee Greenwood All-Star Salute which will air in 2022. Her voice is heard on over 100 audio book narrations and she has written 7 books for Thomas Nelson/Harper Collins and United Methodist Publishing.
Devon O'Day has hosted or participated in some 30 to 50 charity events a year since moving to Nashville. Organizing the Gerry House Celebrity Golf Tournament, it was the top grossing golf event of the year and benefited Saddle Up. For almost thirty years Devon has hosted Chukkers for Charity at Orrin Ingram's farm for Saddle Up and Rochelle Center. As the national voice of Fellowship of Christians and Jews, her voice is still heard on global television asking for help to feed and house people in need. She and Hoss Burns were team players for St. Jude Children's research hospital, even cooking gumbo for people who gave big donations. She created a St. Jude Trail Ride and auction which was the top fund-raising equine event in the country for St. Jude. From The Heart Association gala, Juvenile Diabetes Events, riding in charity rodeos, Big Brothers/Big Sisters, helping as a member of the Animal Task Force who got a new humane Metro Animal Control in Nashville, Cottage Cove After School Children's Care, and volunteering countless hours in animal rescue which have culminated in her own Angel Horse Farm which houses senior equine, kill pen horses, and special needs livestock like a blind steer and an anti-social pig…her broadcast career has been the microphone for her life of fund-raising and awareness of important causes.
Jill Pavel founded Heart Songs Corporation and Heart Songs Records in 2014 in Central New Jersey. Heart Songs has continuously grown through artist development, major label digital distribution, label acquisition and promotions into a full spectrum Record Label. We work closely with our sister company Publicity Nation PR to offer everything an artist needs to succeed.
In 2021, Jill Pavel teamed up with partner Liam Hickey and redeveloped the companies as Heart Songs Music Group to enable the expansion of publishing services and artist management. Heart Songs Music Group is dedicated to the development and management of long term careers for artists who embody our mission of "We Work, You Work, It Works".
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- Digital Marketing Director