Brian Allan is a Scottish musical entrepreneur, songwriter, record producer

Record producer

A record producer is an individual working within the music industry, whose job is to oversee and manage the recording of an artist's music...

, singer and is the founder of “Global One” and “Poland…Why Not?” projects. As an independent artist, 16 of his compositions received airplay in Canada and the UK, while 36 of his songs made their way into UK movies. In 2002 he was signed to an EMI

EMI

The EMI Group, also known as EMI Music or simply EMI, is a multinational music company headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It is the fourth-largest business group and family of record labels in the recording industry and one of the "big four" record companies. EMI Group also has a major...

 imprint (2K Sounds) in Los Angeles and relocated to California where he began writing songs with celebrated North American composers such as Steve Dorff, Randy Bachman

Randy Bachman

Randolph Charles "Randy" Bachman, OC, OM is a Canadian musician best known as lead guitarist, songwriter and a founding member for both the 1960s–70s rock band The Guess Who, and the 1970s rock band Bachman–Turner Overdrive...

, Jud Friedman, Jamie Houston and lead singer of KISS

KISS (band)

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, Paul Stanley

Paul Stanley

Stanley Harvey Eisen , better known by his stage name Paul Stanley, is an American hard rock guitarist, singer, musician, painter and songwriter best known for being the rhythm guitarist and primary lead vocalist of the rock band Kiss. He is the writer or co-writer of many of the band's...

, amongst others. He also discovered a young starlet called Holly Brook

Holly Brook

Holly Brook Hafermann , better known by her stage name Skylar Grey, is a Grammy-nominated American multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and record producer. Grey was signed to Machine Shop Recordings under the name Holly Brook. She released her debut album as Holly Brook, Like Blood Like...

 and managed her early in her career. Brook went on to sign a deal with Warner Bros

Warner Bros. Records

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 imprint Machine Shop Records. She later found fame as the guest vocalist on Fort Minor

Fort Minor

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’s “Where'd you Go

Where'd You Go

"Where'd You Go" is a song by American hip hop artist Fort Minor, the side project of rock band Linkin Park's co-lead vocalist Mike Shinoda. It is the fourth and final single from Fort Minor's debut album The Rising Tied, released on April 10, 2006. The song features Skylar Grey and Jonah Matranga...

” hit song.

In 2004 Allan moved to Poland where he formed a band called “Why Not?” and entered the local charts with his compositions “I still love you” as well as Christmas hit “On Christmas Day” which featured multiple Polish stars and features on EMI’s best selling Christmas CD each year. Allan also wrote “Loving You” for Polish superstar Edyta Górniak

Edyta Górniak

Edyta Górniak is one of the most popular female singers from Poland.- Beginnings :At the age of 14 Górniak formed a band and was playing at private parties and evening dances. After taking singing lessons, in 1989, aged 16, she gave her first public appearance on a Polish television talent show...

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Allan invited some of his former US writing partners to come to Poland and collaborate with a host of Polish stars he believed may have enough ability to break into the international markets as the first Polish stars to be world renowned. This project became “Poland…Why Not?”. The latest addition to song writers and producers on ”Poland….Why Not” is Jim Beanz. On ”Poland…Why Not?” Beanz worked closely with singer, actress, dancer Natasza Urbanska.

Global One

Allan also created the Global One project. Global One is a major global music project in the works, uniting 25 countries around one theme and across one platform and includes China’s Wei Wei

Wei Wei (singer)

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, Brazil’s Daniela Mercury

Daniela Mercury

Daniela Mercury , is a Latin Grammy Award-winning Brazilian axé, samba-reggae and MPB singer, songwriter and record producer. Since her breakthrough, Mercury has become one of the best known Brazilian female singers, selling over 20 million albums worldwide...

, Poland’s Kayah

Kayah (singer)

Katarzyna Rooijens , professionally known as Kayah, is a Polish singer-songwriter. She began her career with her 1995 album Kamień and established herself as one of the most successful Polish singers with her further releases, including Zebra and Kayah i Bregović...

, India’s Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam

Sonu Nigam is an Indian playback singer whose songs have been featured in numerous Hindi movies, as well as films in Assamese, Punjabi, Bengali, Marathi and Kannada language. He has also released numerous Indi-pop albums and acted in a few Hindi feature films...

, Indonesia’s Ruth Sahanaya

Ruth Sahanaya

Ruth Sahanaya is an Indonesian singer. She rose to fame in the late 1980s and is perhaps best known for her hit song "Kaulah Segalanya". She has toured internationally, been the Indonesian representative at many music festivals, and has received multiple awards...

 and Russia’s Valeriya and Sergey Lazarev

Sergey Lazarev

Sergey Vyacheslavovich Lazarev is a singer, dancer and actor born in Moscow, Russia. He is most famous for his singing career, when he rose to fame as the dark-haired member of the group Smash!!. The group broke up in 2006...

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Rokket Music

In 2009, together with Jan Weckström, Allan formed Rokket Music, an independent music company. Rokket Music LLC (Rokket) is an independent international music company, specializing in groundbreaking music platforms.

Jan Weckström: http://fi.linkedin.com/pub/jan-weckstrom/11/a4/895 References