Del Bryant Biography | Country Music | Ken Burns

Bryant found his professional home at Broadcast Music International better known as BMI the largest music rights organization in the United States. After college at the University of Miami, he began work at the company doing what hed already done for years: working with new and established writers, some of whom hed known

Bryant found his professional home at Broadcast Music International – better known as BMI – the largest music rights organization in the United States. After college at the University of Miami, he began work at the company doing what he’d already done for years: working with new and established writers, some of whom he’d known for decades. He spent the next 40 years rising through the ranks at BMI, working in the payment area, in distribution, and in the creative department, and playing the lead role in re-engineering and modernizing BMI’s royalty distribution system, attracting the best new writers in the process. In 1990, Bryant was appointed Senior Vice President of the company and, in 2003, BMI’s president and CEO, spending his final decade determining the organization’s course. Under his direction, BMI’s Film & Television Department in Los Angeles was revitalized and new Latin music and R&B/hip-hop divisions were established, in Miami and Atlanta, respectively. “We had a catalog and what did we want it to be?” he asks. “We wanted it to be uniquely American.” 

Today Del Bryant is recognized as one of the most respected and influential leaders in the music industry. He is a past Chairman of the Board of FastTrack and has been a member of the Board of Directors of BMI, CISAC, the Songwriters Hall of Fame, and the Broadcasters Foundation of America. He and his wife and family live on a farm outside Nashville.

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