About US

Mission Statement

“To provide promotion and marketing consulting services to the independent record label and musician within the recording industry and to provide current and accurate music business education information to the music industry professional, artist, songwriter and musician.”

Shirley A. Washington, President/Owner

Shirley A. Washington is president/owner of Clefnotes Media, Inc. She is also Assistant Director of the Music Business Program at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University. teaches a graduate level course in Promotion and Publicity in the Recording Industry and an adjunct professor at Ramapo College in Mahwah, N.J. where she teaches The Business of Music and Advanced Business of Music. Shirley received her B.A. from Fordham University, a J. D. from Howard University Law School and an M.B.A. from New York University’s Stern Business School. She has worked on both the creative as well as the business side of the recording industry. Shirley has written extensively on topics in the recording industry first as a contributing writer to the Black Entertainment and Sports Advisors (BESLA) newsletter and was former editor-in-chief of In Sync, the newsletter published by Women In Music, Inc. and Just About Music (formerly AARA magazine) a newsletter that provided music business education to the new artist and recording industry professional. In the summer of 2002 she published “The ABC’s of Starting Our Own Independent Record Label” a book used extensively in Music Business classes and seminars all over the country.