Saturday, January 25, 2020
Presenting a few elegant tableaux from
Warner Music Group's heavily attended and highly celebratory pre-
Grammy wingding at the
Hollywood Athletic Club. The festivities included performances by
Lizzo and
Burna Boy, and various executives were spotted dancing with respectable abandon. The mood was buoyant throughout, which was only partly due to the rivers of vodka that flowed without surcease. In addition to the folks listed below,
Len Blavatnik,
Steve Cooper, Guy Moot,
Carianne Marshall and EVP Biz Dev
Oana Ruxandra, among other top execs, rubbed elbows with a bevy of celebs and industry movers like
Amazon's
Steve Boom and
iHeart programming guru
Tom Poleman.

Seen before WMG Recorded Music boss
Max Lousada noted that the party was uncomfortably close to the
HITS offices are (l-r)
Warner Records Co-Chair/COO
Tom Corson, Grammy-nominated artist
Gary Clark Jr., Lousada, Grammy nominee
Yola, Warner Records Co-Chair/CEO Aaron
Bay-Schuck, artist
JoJo and
Nonesuch's
David Bither.

It was a down-home country moment for
Warner Music Nashville chief
John Esposito and his artists, except for the fact that nobody in this photo can have gluten. Seen wishing security had managed to keep us out are (l-r) Espo, WMN's
Scott Hendricks,
Shay Mooney of Grammy nominees
Dan + Shay, Grammy-nominated
Blake Shelton, Lousada,
Gwen Stefani,
Dan Smyers of Dan + Shay and Grammy nominee
Ashley McBryde.

Fashion icon
Naomi Campbell and
iHeart Prexy
John Sykes joined forces for this dashing photo op, which they quietly wished could be published anywhere but here.

Shelton at last reveals to Lousada that his Grammy-nominated smash "God's Country" was in fact written about Boyle Heights, and parts of El Sereno.