about us
We produce concerts by world class artists across North America and worldwide. These include Alam Khan, Ablaye Cissoko & Cyrille Brotto, The Arab Blues, Ballake Sissoko, Damir Imamovic, Derek Gripper, Diego Garcia, Guy Buttery, Rahim Al Haj, Roopa Panesar and many more.
Founder
world class music.live was founded by Mel Puljic, a serial music entrepreneur on three continents: in South Africa, in the UK and in the US.
On graduating from South Africa's leading law school in the 90's, Mel launched multiple record labels and secured exclusive distribution deals with leading independent labels from the US, UK and Europe such as World Circuit, 4AD, TVT, PIAS and more. Mel’s domestic labels signed South African artists at the dawn of post apartheid South African, many of whom would become chart-topping and/or SAMA-awarded artists such as Urban Creep, Henry 8, Battery 9 and many more.
In New York, in the early 2000's, Mel founded an independent sales and marketing firm, Rerooted, which served the European export offices of Sony, Universal and BMG in various album and product catalogue campaigns. Rerooted was responsible for sales and strategy of titles by Fela Kuti, Seu Jorge, Cesaria Evora, Salif Keita, Souad Massi, Khaled, Caravan Palace, Rachid Taha, AR Rahman, Ladysmith Black Mambazo and hundreds more.
Based in Chicago, Mel also leads the awesome company, a boutique performing artist agency; SuperPosition, an events social media marketing company; and Nepantla Nights, an Afro-Latino artists concert producer and promoter.