Jorge Mejia is
President & CEO, Latin America and U.S. Latin at Sony/ATV Music Publishing. Read about his recent promotion here. During his tenure at Sony/ATV, Jorge has been instrumental in guiding Sony/ATV Latin to become the leading music publisher in the Latin industry, with a record-setting 16 consecutive ASCAP Latin Publisher of the Year wins, multiple Billboard Publishing Corporation of the Year, BMI Latin Publisher of the Year, and SESAC Publisher of the Year awards. In 2016, Sony/ATV became the first Latin publisher to win the ASCAP, BMI, and SESAC Publisher of the Year awards in a single year, the ‘Triple Crown of Publishing’, a feat repeated in 2017. Sony/ATV owns or administers over 3 million copyrights by such artists as The Beatles, Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, Luis Fonsi, Nicky Jam, Shakira and Bob Dylan to name but a very few.
A Latin Grammy® nominee in the category of Best Classical Contemporary Composition and a Steinway Artist, Jorge initially studied piano at the New World School of the Arts with William Dawson, a pupil of Rudolph Serkin. He then attended the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied with Jacob Maxin, and finally earned his Piano Performance degree from the University of Miami, where he studied with Teresa Escandón, a pupil of Jorge Bolet. On June 2015 Jorge released a recording of 25 preludes for solo piano which he composed and performed. His most recent release is
An Open Book: A Memoir in Music, a set of 25 Preludes for Piano and Orchestra plus narratives. Produced by Grammy-winning producer Adam Abeshouse and recorded with the Henry Mancini Institute Orchestra, the new album was released via Sony Music on May 4, 2018, and received a Latin Grammy nomination for the 2018 Latin Grammys.
Jorge sits on the boards of the Florida Grammy Chapter and the Latin Songwriters Hall of Fame. He has been named to Billboard’s 40 Under 40 list in 2012, and the Latin Power Players list every year it has been published, in 2010, 2011, 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018. Jorge is based in Miami where he lives with his wife and two dogs.
