MEET THE TEAMScott Willis
Scott Willis has over twenty years experience in broadcast and internet radio as a program director, music director and host including fifteen years at KKJZ-FM in Los Angeles. He is currently music director of several online radio channels and can be heard hosting jazz programs as part of the in flight entertainment selections for two airlines as well. Twice nominated as jazz personality of the year by Gavin magazine, he has been an industry panelist and participant at numerous jazz conferences.
Scott has also been heard on the air as a contributor to NPR’s “News & Notes” and NPRMusic.org, and has produced and hosted numerous national broadcasts including the annual Playboy Jazz Festival. Over the years, his interest in the history and stories behind the music he loves has led him to create and host several unique programs, including most recently “Talkin’ Jazz with Scott Willis”, a syndicated jazz feature program carried on 26 stations nationwide.
As a music supervisor, Scott has worked on independent film and television commercials including promotional campaigns for Apple iTunes. He also currently oversees music selection for “The Play’s the Thing”, a national two-hour weekly arts program, and has been called on as a consultant for several jazz documentaries.
Danny Lemos
Danny Lemos was in radio when Nixon was still in the White House. Radio has changed, (so has the White House, for that matter) but Lemos has evolved with it. As President and “Chief Creative Officer” of Lemoskin Productions, an internet and terrestrial radio content providing company, Danny Lemos has a rich background as a stand-up comic and comedy writer from which to draw material.
Born an identical twin in East Los Angeles, he is one of nine siblings. His parents stopped at 9, “ he says, “because my dad read somewhere that every 10th child in the world is born Chinese.”
Danny was a Jesuit seminarian through his college years, where he became Promotions Manager at KXLU-FM. He hosted “The Sounds Of Swing” a weekly big band radio show, “mostly because they had a huge library of swing music and the host had quit.” Soon Lemos gave up the collar to unleash himself on listeners playing hard rock on the now legendary KMET-FM. Within two years he crossed town to KIIS-FM where he was Music Director for three years. It was at KIIS-FM, that Lemos developed his skills as a programmer and a comedy writer.
Lemos wrote, produced and voiced comedy characters for the “Rick Dees In The Morning” show. His alter ego, Chuy from La Puente (the birthplace of K-Mart!) became well known both on the air and on stage. He next produced “The Weekly Top 40 Countdown with Rick Dees” and moved into writing music and comedy specials for ABC Television, one of which was nominated for a Writers Guild award.
An experienced stand-up comic, audience warm up comedian and radio host, Lemos has hosted a magazine format show on radio, programmed in San Jose and San Francisco, and hosted the first “lounge” radio show on KGIL/Los Angeles.
Lemos received L.A. Theatre acclaim for his one-man shows “Chuy’s Choice” and “I’m Still Here, Now What?” and he’s currently working on his second book of essays.
Danny Lemos hosts a weekly fitness podcast, “The Bodcast”, which is distributed via iTunes Music Store, as well as a daily ½ hour radio internet show, “Homecast” also available as a daily podcast via iTunes.
Paul Liebeskind
In front of the best talent that ever sat behind a microphone has been Paul Liebeskind, behind the sound proof glass. As a recording engineer whose credits go back to Murray The K, and with a career that spans the last 3 decades in radio, Paul has seen the big names come and get hugely successful! Paul’s talents as a sound editor and mixer is unsurpassed in radio today.
Paul’s resume goes back to Soundtrack to the ‘60’s with Gary Owens, The King Biscuit Flower Hour and American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. He has worked for ABC, Watermark, Kris Erik Stevens, Wally Clark & Rick Dees, Clear Channel Radio, Westwood One, the Premiere Radio and Dial/Global networks.
Internationally Liebeskind has contributed programming to TOKYO FM, as well as The E-30 Countdown with Phil Abbot and Paul has served for 25 years as Supervising Producer of The Rick Dees Weekly Top 40 Countdown.
As an independent content producer in his own production house, Paul brings with him a tenure of experience that is unmatched in the business. Paul led the pack of his contemporaries into podcasting and new media production in 2004, and opened Lemoskin Productions and Caveman Studios in 2006.
Contact Paul by email skin@lemoskin.com
