Michelle Escoffery, PRS ( Performing Right Society) UK President is an Ivor Novello award and Brit award winning singer, songwriter. She is an educator whose interest is in developing future talents
Jacqueline Pelham-Leigh is a recording artist, she has seamlessly transitioned into production. She is currently supporting songwriters and producers as one of the relationship manager for black music at PRS for music.
Both are visiting Nigeria along with popular producer Ozzie (Osiki Ojo) to support a songwriters boot camp and also connect with creators and key stakeholders to unlock opportunities for mutual benefit.
PRS ( Performing Right Society) for Music Limited (formerly The MCPS-PRS Alliance Limited) is a British music copyright collective, made up of two collection societies: the Mechanical-Copyright Protection Society (MCPS) and the Performing Right Society (PRS). It undertakes collective rights management for musical works on behalf of its 160,000 members. PRS for Music was formed in 1997 following the MCPS-PRS Alliance. In 2009, PRS and MCPS-PRS Alliance realigned their brands and became PRS for Music.
PRS represents their songwriter, composer and music publisher members’ performing rights, and collects royalties on their behalf whenever their music is played or performed publicly.