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The WGCI Music Seminar featured performances by the winner and first runner-up of the Chicago Idol contest. Winner Maurice Mahon, an R&B vocalist chosen from 1,120 entrants, is recording a song written and produced by R. Kelly. Hip-hop runner-up White Boy was signed to Icee Records and has recorded with West as the producer. A single, "You Know," is currently receiving three to four spins per day on WGCI, according to Smith.
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R&B star R. Kelly will write and produce a song for Chicago's Maurice Mahon, winner of the "Chicago Idol" contest.

Mahon placed first in a field of more than 1,000 entrants to the closely-watched contest.

Rapper Chris "White Boy" Riley placed second and gets a record deal with new independent label ICEE Records.

Mahon sang a stirring rendition of "I Need You Now." After he finished singing, the crowd in the Auditorium Theatre went wild. Family and friends waved signs and Mahon was seen shedding a few tears on stage.

Afterwards, Mahon seemed subdued, telling interviewers he was pleased and humbled with the honor. Mahon had competed in various talent contests in the past, including the 1996 Motown Talent Search and the 1997 V103 Ramsey Lewis Contest in Chicago.
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The Gentlemen of Leisure with special guest performer, Maurice Mahon, Chicago Idol winner, will provide dancing music, promising to “go the distance,” so comfortable shoes are recommended. After dinner, guests may move to the patio area and continue to enjoy the “Carnivale” ambiance under the stars while viewing a colorful fireworks display designed especially for the evening. Attire for the benefit is “formal and festive.” - Chicago Defender

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Chicago Idol to sing at SummerFest
One way or another, Maurice Mahon will get a hometown gig

By Tom Holmes
Contributing Reporter


Forest Park resident Maurice Mahon has made it to the big time.

After winning WGCI's Chicago Idol contest in 2003, he's toured four times with R. Kelly, opened for Alicia Keys, sung in front of 80,000 people in South Africa, and toured with Tyler Perry. In the fall, he'll be coming out with a CD called The New Face of Soul.

Yet, what he wants to do most right now is perform at Forest Park's SummerFest, coming up on June 4 and 5.

"I'm so wanting to do the community," Mahon told the Review. "This is bigger to me than singing across the world. You know why? I want to generate all the love I've gotten from being a musician and a singer."

Because the director of this year's SummerFest, Cec Hardacker, has already booked the bands and filled the schedule for the event, she's going to fit the Chicago Idol in between acts. One other possibility is to have him open the program on Saturday with the national anthem, as he did every night on a recent 42-state tour with R. Kelly.

Mahon hasn't let his success as a singer go to his head.

"When I'm on stage," he says, "it's showtime. Other than that, it doesn't pay to be above average. You do something great, and you come home and wash the dishes. You win a football game, and you come home and empty the garbage and feed your little brothers and sisters."

That's why he's happy to live in Forest Park with his wife of 17 years, who works as a beauty consultant in Oak Park, and his 8-year-old son, who goes to Garfield Elementary School.

Although his business card says "Maurice Mahon, ENTERTAINER," he understands what he does onstage to be a form of ministry.

"When you're onstage," he says, "that's your congregation right there. I think being in church all those years had everything to do with being able to connect with people. I just did a show at the DuSable Museum with Julia Huff three Saturdays ago - 1,700 people. The place was packed, and they connected. It's like having a conversation."

He acknowledged that music is a powerful medium that can have a big influence, especially on young people. In a sense, a talented singer has a certain power over his audience. "You can give them poison or you can give them life," Mahon says. "I prefer giving life."

Even when what he's performing isn't gospel music, Mahon refers to his program as inspirational. That's why he's so eager to share his music at this local level. "If 10 guys of my color would see me doing a positive thing," he said, "they might be changed and empower 10 others."

And then he added, "Soul music doesn't have a color to it. It's what you write from your heart. Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder and Smokey Robinson wrote the greatest lyrics. But so did Elton John and Paul McCartney."

He said that his music, what he calls the new face of soul, is simply an extension of what those great songwriters began. To see and hear Mahon sing, go to www.mauricemahon.com. To get an update of when he'll sing at Summerfest, go to www.Summerfestfp.com.

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The recent premiere of the third season of "American Idol" pulled in blockbuster ratings for Fox?but TV isn't the only medium picking up on all things "Idol."

Last year, WGCI-FM Chicago and crosstown sister WVAZ (V103) held their first "Chicago Idol" contest. And like
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"American Idol" winner Ruben Studdard, "Chicago Idol" winner Maurice Mahon has become quite the local celebrity.

His debut single, "Closer to You," debuted at No. 69 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart in the Jan. 31 issue. And Mahon's success has station staffers already planning "Chicago Idol 2."

The idea for "Chicago Idol" came after WGCI/WVAZ OM Elroy Smith found himself engrossed in the Fox series. "There was no way I would be here [at the station] until 7 o'clock on Tuesdays," he says. "I would be rushing home to have dinner with my family in preparation for 7 o'clock to watch 'American Idol.' I found myself so caught up in the show that it became part of my Tuesday-night routine.

"As it was coming to a conclusion, I went to [then-GM Marv Dyson] and said, 'We need to do a 'Chicago Idol' competition,' " Smith continues. "At that point, he was not into 'American Idol.' One day he got home [and] his family was screaming, and he was wondering what was going on. This was when it was getting really heated between Ruben and Clay [Aiken]. The next day he came to me and said, 'Man, this "American Idol" is huge.' I'm glad he saw it, because he was now sold on it."

With Dyson on board, Smith says he knew the prize for "Chicago Idol" would have to be "monumental."

Smith met with R. Kelly and broached his idea for "Chicago Idol," which included the prize of a song written and produced by Kelly. "Without hesitation, [Kelly] said, 'That's something that I've always wanted to do. Let's make this happen.' "

The stations began soliciting on-air for submissions and by the deadline had received 1,222 entries. Those entries were pared down to 300. The semifinalists were then auditioned before a panel of judges convened by Smith and narrowed to 15 finalists.

"Since there were so many people, we had two audition rooms working at the same time," Smith recalls. Judges in each room were asked to pick the best seven contestants. "We ended up with 15 finalists, and Maurice was the wild card.

"The other people that judged in the room that I wasn't in came in and told me about this guy who sang Smokie Norful's 'I Need You Now' and smoked," he adds. "They were raving about . . . this Maurice Mahon."

Mahon beat out the 14 other competitors, impressing the judges, who included Smith, Chicago indie retailer George Daniels of George's Music Room, Jive artist Syleena Johnson, producer and Roc-a-Fella/Def Jam artist Kanye West, WGCI APD Tiffany Green and V103 APD Armando Rivera.

THINKING POSITIVELY

"I took it kind of lightly until I started listening to the radio and I heard about the prize?a song with R. Kelly," Mahon says of the contest. "I went in thinking positively and that I would place. I made it through the 300, the 15 and then I won. Even thinking about it now, I get numb. It sometimes seems unreal."

It doesn't seem unreal to Smith, who saw the way the crowd responded to Mahon at the competition, held last July. With more than 3,000 people in attendance, Mahon and the other finalists performed, with Kelly closing the show.

"When Maurice came out singing 'I Need You Now,' the whole place was silent," Smith says. "I thought the crowd wasn't loving him. You could hear a pin drop."

It turns out "the place was silent because they were in awe," Smith adds. "They applauded him, without an MC egging them on, for easily 35 seconds. If the judges would have come back with a different winner, it would have been a very, very disappointing night for those 3,000 people."

While Mahon won the competition, it was never guaranteed that WGCI or WVAZ would play "Closer to You," the single written and produced by Kelly. However, Smith says that Kelly's track record speaks for itself.

"With the success of R. Kelly and the fact that everything he touches gets on the radio, I felt confident that whatever R. Kelly was going to do with Maurice it would be a song we would play comfortably."

'AN EMOTIONAL MOMENT'

Smith recalls the first time he heard "Closer to You." "I went by the Chocolate Factory to get the song . . . right before Christmas," he says. "I put it in the CD player, and tears almost came to my eyes. I remember the day it all started and to see it evolve into a real song produced by the No. 1 R&B producer in the country right now?it was an emotional moment for me. It took a while for me to go back home. I just drove around listening to it. I was trying to find people to enjoy this moment with me. I called Maurice, and he came to my home to hear the song."

For Mahon, the song represents what has happened during the past several months of his life.

"Working with Kelly has been a novel experience," the singer says. "His coaching me has been the highlight of my life. Since then, we've done several songs."

Mahon says the song that Kelly wrote for him "does a great job in describing me, my character and my position. 'Closer to You' has been the topic of my life."

Smith decided to wait until the new year to premiere the song on his stations. "Since it was Christmas time, I didn't want to rush to put the song on the radio," he says. "People's minds are elsewhere, and with the Christmas music that was playing the song would have gotten lost. So, we came up with Monday, Jan. 5 [as an add date]. Throughout the holiday period, we promoted the fact that we would be debuting the song on that date.

"We debuted it at 7 a.m. on 'GCI," he continues. "The response was great. Every phone call that came through was positive, and the producer wasn't screening them. We had [Mahon] on for close to 50 minutes."

Since the debut of "Closer to You," Mahon has appeared on the local Fox, ABC, NBC and CBS affiliates. Between WGCI and V103, "Closer to You" has gotten more than 200 spins to date.

"It is unbearable," Mahon says of his newfound fame. "I've tried to find the right words to describe it, but I can't. Every time it comes on the radio, I turn everything else down. I'm just listening. The song means a lot to me. It means that I'm getting closer to my goals and dreams."

According to Smith, "Closer to You" has also caught the attention of other stations.

WJLB Detroit PD K.J. Holiday heard a promo that the Chicago stations did for the song and contacted Smith asking for a copy.

"I got an e-mail from K.J., and he told me he was putting the song into his Quiet Storm rotation," Smith says. "For K.J. to just hear it in passing in a promo and put it on was incredible. The single then came up on the Clear Channel urban conference call. So, we sent it out to all Clear Channel urban stations."

'CHICAGO IDOL 2' PLANNED

Mahon's success has spurred interest in a second "Chicago Idol" competition.

"I've already locked in Kanye [West] to be a part of our second 'Idol' competition," Smith says. "With it evolving the way that it has, Maurice has really raised the standard because of this powerful record. If you didn't know that this was the 'Chicago Idol' winner, you would just be driving along and say, 'What a beautiful song.' He blends in that well with all the heavyweights that we're presently playing on the station.

"With the success of our first 'Chicago Idol,' I guarantee that we'll be getting phone calls about the contest before July," Smith adds, "and the tapes will probably double because of what they've seen happen to Maurice."

As for Mahon, several major labels are courting him. At present, Kelly's management team has been working with Mahon's team in handling label inquiries.

Prior to becoming the "Chicago Idol," Mahon was working full time at a barbershop and part time at a post office. "This was an opportunity for me, and I took advantage of it," he says of the contest.

"When you think about it and you dream about it, you know it can happen," he adds. "I just kept being persistent by knocking on doors, and this is one door that has opened up wide, and all the goodies were in there." - Airplay Monitors

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Blue Moon Group (OTCBB:BMOO) signs one of the hottest new talents, Maurice Mahon. Mahon placed first in the latest Chicago Idol contest against a field of more than 1,000 entrants


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to the closely-watched contest, sponsored by Chicago radio stations WGCI-FM and co-sponsored by Fox Chicago.

Maurice Mahon has recently worked with R.Kelly, who has written and produced several songs for him on his forthcoming album, soon to be released on Blue Moon Records.

About Maurice Mahon:

Maurice Mahon, a Chicago native, has been singing and competing in talent contests for several years. "Closer To You," a song written and produced by R.Kelly for Maurice, has debuted on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip Hop Singles and Tracks chart at #69.

About R.Kelly:

From the housing projects of Chicago's Southside to becoming one of the world's most renowned R&B artists, R.Kelly, known in the industry for his ingenious street lyrics, is currently the industry's most sought after songwriter, performer and producer. Emerging in 1992 with his debut album Born Into The 90's, R.Kelly began to build what is now a legacy of talent and multi platinum hits in the music industry.

About Blue Moon Group:
Blue Moon Group is a holding company with subsidiaries providing services to the music, entertainment and film industries. It is an emerging music and entertainment company engaged in the development, production and distribution of various types of music including pop, rock, R&B, hip hop, dance and country. Blue moon is managed by a group of leading artists and producers who bring years of experience, having been involved with influential recording artists in the music industry.

Blue Moon Group has recently signed a music distribution deal with Brody/Sony Red.

Statements regarding financial matters in this press release other than historical facts are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The company intends that such statements about the Company's future expectations, including future revenues and earnings, and all other forward-looking statements be subject to the safe harbors created thereby. Since these statements (future operational results and sales) involve risks and uncertainties and are subject to change at any time, the Company's actual results may differ materially from expected results.
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CHICAGO, IL. (www.chicagomusicawards.com) - The 24th Annual Chicago Music Awards will feature a star-studded line-up headlined by Disco/Dance Legend Linda Clifford, Syleena Johnson, Darius Brooks, and Maurice Mahon amongst others.
This years gala event will be held Saturday, February 5th, 2005 at the Museum of Science & Industry, 57th Street & South Lake Shore Drive, Chicago, IL. VIP reception is 7:00PM and the Awards ceremony begins 8:00PM. Tickets are $45 general admission, $75 for VIP tickets (includes reception with special guests). Tickets available at Ticketmaster.com and at all Ticketmaster outlets. Call (312) 559-1212.
For general information, call Martin's Inter-Culture at (312) 427-0266, email: chitownmusicbest@aol.com, or visit www.chicagomusicawards.com.
Disco diva and dance music icon, Linda Clifford is best known for her hits 'Runaway Love,' and 'If Friends Could See Me Know;' Darius Brook has emerged has one of the foremost Contemporary Gospel singers; for 20 years, he was a key part of the Chicago-based Thompson Community Singers, one of the most influential choirs in gospel music; Jive recording artist, singer and songwriter Syleena Johnson, is also the daughter of Syl Johnson, a noted blues singer who penned the hit, 'Take Me To The River.'
Recently signed to Blue Moon Records, Maurice Mahon, is one of Chicago's most popular homegrown talents, he is the original Chicago Idol Winner, whose song 'Closer' was written and produced by the Pied Piper himself, R. Kelly.

Also scheduled to perform are Rock sensation Punsapaya, Blues musician Lurie Bell, Reggae/Calypso/Soca Jamaican Oneman Band, Poet Malik Yusef, Mau, Lil Mann, the all female Jazz group KCR Ensemble, EarCandy, Loop Lab School Choir, and others. Awards are presented in a variety of categories including Pop, R&B, Rock, Blues, Jazz, Country Western, Opera, Latin, Reggae, Classical, Hip Hop/Rap, Gospel, Comedy and Poetry. Also, last year, a children's segment was added.

Special awards of honor will be presented to select individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the music industry working mostly behind-the-scenes. They are Chicago natives Elroy Smith, program director, WGCI AM/FM & WVAZ/103 FM (Clear Channel), Harry Porterfield, WLS-TV/ABC7, Regina Daniels, Daniels Entertainment, Robert Pruter, Historian/Writer, Dr. Toni Marie Montgomery, Dean, Northwestern School of Music and Lifetime Achievement honoree Linda Clifford.

Since it's inception in 1983, The Chicago Music Awards (CMA) [produced by Martins Inter-Culture, Ltd., headed by Ephraim Martin, an entrepreneur and former photojournalist,] celebrates and recognizes the quality and diversity of music and artistry. Each year the Awards pay tribute to the best and brightest among Chicago area entertainers.

The Chicago Music Awards is sponsored in part, by Straight Talk-SPTV 25, Caribbean Shipping & Postal Services, Chicago Defender, African Spectrum, Kingston Mines, Loop Lab School, VIBE (Video is Best Edited), KL Entertainment, Remax Realtor Leroy Viamille, Herbert Witter Insurance Broker, Mario Uomo, Wild Hare Reggae Club, A Natural Harvest, Air Jamaica, Reggaesource.com, WVON 1450 AM and Rolling Out Urbanstyle 'Weekly.

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