- Brooke Wentz is a music supervisor, film producer and rights executive working in the television, cable, film and recording industries. She founded Seven Seas Music an international music discovery site, and The Rights Workshop, a music supervision and licensing company. She has music supervised hundreds of independent and documentary films, as well as numerous TV shows.
Past corporate experiences include ESPN Music Director, A&R Manager at Arista Records, rights consultant to TechTV, author, and NPR radio host. She has authored three books: Transfigured New York, Music Rights Unveiled, and Hey! That's My Music.
Brooke has received a Billboard Award for her work as a record producer of world music and an Anthem Award for Janis Ian: Breaking Silence. Her bibliography includes the recordings "Global Meditation," "Global Celebration," "Voices of Forgotten Worlds," "Africa: Never Stand Still," and the three-CD set "Global Divas" produced for the 1996 Third World Conference on Women in Beijing. In 2014 she launched the world music discovery and licensing platform Seven Seas Music.
A native San Franciscan, Brooke holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and received her B.A. degree, magna cum laude, from Barnard College.
- IMDb mini biography by: Brooke Wentz
- Brooke Wentz provided music clearance for one of the first "viral" YouTube videos ever, Judson Laipply's "Evolution of Dance".
- Brooke was music supervisor for Hooman Khalili's "Olive," the first feature-length film shot entirely on a smart phone.
- Brooke won a Billboard Award for world music in 1993.
- Brooke was in a coup d'etat in Mali while representing Malian pop singer Salif Keita.
- Was in Glenn Branca's ensemble, and later orchestra, from 1980-1984.
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