|  Michael Godin has been involved in music and broadcasting in Canada since 1969. He was a music director and disc jockey in Montreal with CFQR, CFCF, CJFM; and CFOM in Quebec City. He joined A&M Records Canada in Toronto in 1975, as Director of Artist and Repertoire. During his tenure, he became Vice-president and is responsible for the signing and development of many recording artists including the international star Bryan Adams; and is the recipient of several international GOLD, PLATINUM and DIAMOND awards. During this period, he also worked with Lance Freed, son of Rock & Roll pioneer DJ, Alan Freed, in Lance’s capacity as President of Rondor Music International, the music publishing division of A&M Records.
In 1986, he moved to the West Coast of Canada and started Michael Godin Management Inc. in Vancouver, handling the career of multi-award winning recording artist and songwriter, Paul Janz. As a management consultant, Michael offers a variety of services to broadcast companies, and developing recording artists and managers. Michael is also a music publisher and founder of West Broadway Music and East Broadway Music. Michael also represents Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and Canadian pioneer disc jockey Red Robinson for all public speaking engagements. Red is one of the seven original DJs in North America to play rhythm and blues and rock & roll music on radio, and the author of Rockbound. From 1986 until September 1993, Michael was a National Director of the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences (CARAS), the organization which stages the annual Juno Awards, Canada’s music industry awards for excellence in recording achievement. He was also Chairman of the Board of the B.C. Chapter of CARAS, which for ten years, presented the annual West Coast Music Awards. In 1998 Michael hosted an Internet first, the live on-camera video presentation of the Juno Awards Backstage and conducted interviews with many of the winners. Michael auditioned for and was chosen as the voice for two Mattel Toys television commercials, the “He-Man Power Sword” and the “Skeletor Skull Staff”, which ran for two years in the United States. Michael maintains a close association with NABS, the National Advertising Benevolent Society, a nonprofit charitable organization which helps people from the advertising, marketing and media community across Canada who have encountered illness, injury, unemployment, or financial difficulties. In late April 1997, Michael returned to broadcasting as producer and host of TreasureIslandOldies.com, a weekly four hour oldies radio show broadcasting on the Internet. In late 1998, the program was picked up for broadcast on short wave via SWRS, the Short Wave Relay Service, based in Germany. In October 1999, TreasureIslandOldies.com was voted the Number One program by listeners of SWRS. |
