He is best known as the chairman of the board of the German collecting society GEMA.
In July 2000, the DMA also assumed the role as repository for GEMA, Gesellschaft für musikalische Aufführungs- und mechanische Vervielfältigungsrechte, a German music copyright organization.
Ernst Hecht Director Industry & Multimedia at GEMA, the largest European music-rights organization, Munich
Kollo also emerged as a composer of revues and sound films in 1915, was one of the founders of the performer's rights organization GEMA, and had his own music publishing company.
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Named after Albert Mangelsdorff, the European jazz scene's best-known trombonist, it is endowed with 15.000 Euro by the GEMA foundation.
The GEMA has chosen 30 popular composers and lyricists.
Global Engine Manufacturing Alliance LLC, or GEMA is the manufacturing arm of the Global Engine Alliance and consisted of five factories worldwide; two in Dundee, Michigan, United States, two in South Korea and one in Shiga, Japan.
For years he worked as a critic; he worked for GEMA, edited the Instrumentenbau-Zeitschrift, developed programmes for the Westdeutscher Rundfunk.
After having moved to Havana in 1992 and formed a rock band called Cuatro Gatos (Four Cats), Kelvis Ochoa’s big break came when he met two Cuban musicians : Gema Corredera and Pável Urkiza.