Sonita Alleyne
Sonita Alleyne OBE, FRSA (born 1968, Bridgetown, Barbados) is the co-founder and former CEO of Somethin’ Else, one of Britain's leading cross-platform media production companies. Alleyne is a member of the BBC Trust, the governing body of the British Broadcasting Corporation.
Biography and career
Alleyne was born in Bridgetown, Barbados, and brought up in Leytonstone, East London. Having attended Leyton Senior High School for Girls, she matriculated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge in 1985. While an undergraduate, she helped organise the college Spring Ball and sang in a jazz band with Henry Gee, later a Senior Editor of Nature. In 1988, she graduated with a BA in Philosophy and began working as a financial adviser for Royal Life. A year later she joined Jazz FM's publicity department and, in her two years at the station, proceeded to become a trainee producer.
After being made redundant in 1991, Alleyne set up Somethin' Else, a music publicity business (named after the landmark jazz album by Cannonball Adderley), with former colleagues Jez Nelson and Chris Philips. The company quickly expanded and began producing original content for the BBC and commercial radio. As CEO, Alleyne led many projects herself, including the development of Radio Music Shop, the world's first retail radio station. By 2008, Somethin’ Else was, according to The Independent, ‘the biggest syndicator of radio programmes in the UK, outside of the BBC, distributing shows to more than 200 radio stations in 65 countries’.
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A Special Place
by: SantalinaA Special Place
Written by Santalina and Cozmo (Music Producer)
Oh no here we go again
Baby no please don’t go there
Because this falling out of your lips
Don’t need a list of reasons why
Just tell me what’s on your mind
Or better yet, don’t say anything
O God, just say it, but no lies this time
That’s when he took a deep breath
And said I love you to death
But this ain’t working out
I knew this was coming out
It was just a matter of when, no doubt
But what I want you to know before you walk out this door
There’s a special place in my heart that will never die
For all my life even after we say goodbye
There’s a special place in my mind to reminisce any time
When I miss that look that found its way into my eyes
There’s a special place in my heart that will never die
For all my life even after we say goodbye
There’s a special place in my mind to reminisce any time
When I miss that look that found its way into my eyes
Ooh, we’ve been through this road before
Never thought it would end for real
Been two years, one month and a few days more
Back then we were inseparable I just don’t know what happened
But we can’t keep fighting this so I guess the feeling is mutual
I know you know that I love you with all I got
But I wish you the very best to the last tear drop
I know in time you’ll figure out what’s right
But I really got to go and I want you to know
There’s a special place in my heart that will never die
For all my life even after we say goodbye
There’s a special place in my mind to reminisce any time
When I miss that look that found its way into my eyes
There’s a special place in my heart that will never die
For all my life even after we say goodbye
There’s a special place in my mind to reminisce any time
When I miss that look that found its way into my eyes
I’m putting it away, because I know we’ve got to let go
(So hard when we’ve been together for so long)
I’m putting it away, because I know we’ve got to let go
(Sometimes it’s rough, but you’ve got to be strong)
These are the hardest times but I’m all right
These are the toughest nights but I’ll survive
Moving on with my life, no I won’t cry
I got do what we know it’s right, It’s time to say goodbye
There’s a special place in my heart that will never die (I love but we gotta leave)
For all my life even after we say goodbye (I care for you but we both now that we gotta do what’s best for you and me)
There’s a special place in my mind to reminisce any time
When I miss that look that found its way into my eyes
There’s a special place in my heart that will never die
For all my life even after we say goodbye
There’s a special place in my mind to reminisce any time