The three entrepreneurs who created KEF ENTERTAINMENT are Steve Camhi, President, record executive, and music producer; and John  Lagana, Vice  President, singer, performer, music manager, and music producer; and Joe Cardinale, music  producer, and recording engineer.

It would take a stack of CD- ROMS to list all the gigs, play dates, club dates, TV and radio appearances, recorded performances, and the crisscrossing of the United States in groups, as singles, as managers, and as music producers they have collectively accumulated. They are seasoned music  veterans  and they are proud of it.

After meeting with them in their state-of-the-art  recording studio in Staten Island, New York, one comes to fully appreciate the cooperation and professional discipline that takes place between the partners at Kef.  It’s not just the usual joining together of one and one ,but three multi-talented music  producers joining together to create a symphony of beautiful music with their artists. It’s not just where one starts a sentence and another finishes it. They do that all the time. But more significantly and strategically, where one will begin an operation or phase of an ongoing production, and the other two will automatically join in with their respective talents to get the job done. That’s how it operates at Kef as a family.

Our Management Team Is Committed to our Artists Success

And as a family, Steve, John and Joey are closely involved with the music they produce. Unlike other executives in the music business the Kef partners don’t just make managerial and financial decisions that are then passed on to assistants to carry out. They are “hands on” music producers. From concept, arrangement, rewrites, recording, publicity, advertising, distribution, and  sales, the three partners are deeply involved in every detail of the songs and albums they produce.  And as critically, they are as deeply involved with the artists who record their songs and albums.

John Lagana says, “Know-how and knowledge of the music business, added to that magical gut feeling, are everything in setting up an environment in which talented composers and singers can do their best work.”  Steve Camhi adds, “Often a singer will come to us with a good idea for a song, but one needing a different melodic line or tempo.”  “In that case,” Joe Cardinale says “we bring in an arranger best suited to the singer and put them together.  This not only creates a new song, but very often a new sound as well.”  “The bottom line,” Lagana continues, “is in taking that song or sound that is going around in an artist’s head, nurturing it into creative existence, and then following it through the many intricate steps so that that original sound or song goes onto a CD or album, to be heard by millions throughout the country and around the world.

At its inception KEF Entertainment was structured like the Hollywood studios once were; with all the departments – executive, managerial, creative, technical, advertising, and sales – all under one roof.  Such an integrated operation assures a carefully laid out production schedule, operational continuity, and ongoing fiscal control beneficial to both KEF’s investors and financial institutions.  Consequently, KEF offers a sound and well constructed business operation when seeking capital for expansion, in not only offering a catalog of CD hits, but also a hot managerial team as well.

The atmosphere at Kef is one of enthusiasm and confidence.  A winning combination bred of past success and know-how.  The enthusiasm is both infectious and creatively productive. The three partners summarized our meeting with these final observations.

They’re all been over the rainbow.  Been there, done that.  Now they’ve merged their skills and experience with a well structured business plan and a capital investment with which to create new beautiful entertainment rainbows for a mass audience across a wide demographic spectrum of Jazz, Pop, Rock, Adult/Contemporary and Dance Music.  A formidable undertaking, but one their enthusiasm, lengthy experience, skilled business talents, plus their love and devotion to the entertainment they are creating, is a powerful incentive.