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Alaina Bendi is a well-seasoned Music and Entertainment Executive and High-Output Producer with over 15 years of experience. She has extensive brand activation experience, working with some of the biggest brands, industry executives, celebrities, and musicians in the business. Her college background includes graduating a 5 year double major/double minor program at Monmouth University in 4 years, earning a BA in Music with Concentration in Music Industry, a BA in Communications with emphasis in TV Production and a minor in Film and a minor in Instrumental Music (which was created for her). She was also selected for one of 18 spots out of thousands of applicants all over the world and completed a very highly-competitive film program at University of Southern California and later studied Film Scoring/Orchestration at a program at Juilliard.
Alaina has an extensive background working as a media executive where she cultivated relationships with the best in the business as well as the biggest and most notable celebrities, directors and producers. She had the great opportunity to direct a TV show called "Media City: Inside the Industry", which she also Executive Produced, in which she worked with the likes of Doug Liman, Adrian Grenier, Matthew Lillard, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dick Wolf, Josh Radnor and hundreds of others who were guests on the show. A year after starting her own firm, Alaina became one of the most sought-out independent publicists. With her self-determination and driven mindset, Alaina has solely carried out nearly 70 successful publicity campaigns with a diverse roster of clients. She has worked for everything from emerging brands, both major and emerging musicians, celebrities, apps, studios and networks, films, new companies to fortune 500 companies. She has represented a broad range of clients past and present including multi-platinum-selling recording artists, Ryan Cabrera and Secondhand Serenade, popular boy bands O-Town and LFO, "American Idol" stars Blake Lewis, Lee DeWyze and JAX, "The Voice" stars Luke Wade and Johnny Gates, popular musician Aaron Carter and many more recognizable names in addition to PR for over 40 emerging artists. She also does artist management and development and has gotten clients record deals and song placements on major TV shows. Celebrities represented past and present include Thomas Ian Nicholas ("American Pie"), Michael Lombardi ("Rescue Me"), Rob Morrow ("Numb3rs", Billions"), Jeremy Jackson (Baywatch) and Astronaut/NY Times Best-Selling Author Mike Massamino.
Her extensive Rolodex makes her a valuable asset in creating key brand promotions and relationships with influencers. This makes her job as a Talent Relations Executive quite successful. She's responsible for making deals for brands, companies and apps to partner with talent and influencers to help grow their visibility. She's also a go-to for providing talent to attend various events and walk red carpets. She's worked with numerous TV shows, studios and networks and events over the years such as FOX's "Hell's Kitchen" and "American Idol", NBC's UPfronts and the cast of "This is Us", the TriBeca Film Festival, various major movie premiere red carpets and much more to coordinate talent opportunities.
Aside from television, music videos and film producing projects, Alaina is also a well-known concert and event producer having produced several corporate events for the biggest TV networks, studios and media companies, as well as red carpet parties, music video premiere parties and more. She produces wide ranges of concerts from solo acoustic show to A-list major shows such as Ms. Lauren Hill, The Fray, Gavin DeGraw, Jerry Seinfeld and Sebastian Maniscalco.
Incredibly charitable, Alaina is the founder and sole producer of the popular, annual Rock the Schools Concert, which was created to support music education and now specifically supports the VH1 Save the Music Foundation. The show brings in corporate brand sponsors such as Live Nation and iHeartRadio and has had over 20 performers in 5 years to include (to name a few) The Goo Goo Dolls, Jordin Sparks, AJ McLean (Backstreet Boys), Aaron Carter, Mark Ballas ("Dancing with the Stars"), "One Tree Hill" stars Tyler Hilton, Bethany Joy Lenz, Bryan Greenberg and Mike Grubbs, Teddy Geiger, "Baby Daddy" star Tahj Mowry, Josh Kelley and many more. Alaina is an active supporter of music education and music-based charities and produces several benefit concerts to support different causes. She even produced a concert that was featured on "The Real Housewives of New York."
Alaina is focused on producing more film and TV oriented material but will always be doing 20 different projects at once!
