Music business veteran Marty Gamblin has become the Executive Director of the Southern Arts and Entertainment Center, which was established in 2001 by the Mississippi legislature. Currently doing business as the Mississippi Arts and Entertainment Center (MEAC), the group is dedicated to honoring the lives and work of the state’s diverse artistic talent such as William Faulkner, Robert Johnson, Tammy Wynette, Elvis Presley, Morgan Freeman and many more.
Before he moved to Mississippi, Gamblin was a longtime executive in the Nashville office of Glen Campbell’s publishing business and gave a young Alan Jackson his first publishing deal with the company. Gamblin was also briefly Jackson’s manager early in the singer’s career.
Gamblin has served on the MEAC Board for eight years, with over five serving as the Board’s Assistant VP. The new Southern Arts and Entertainment Center is slated to be built in Meridian, MS, and purports to be a major cultural attraction for visitors. Reach Gamblin at marty@msarts.org or 601-581-1550.
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