Your Girl Cheryl
BIO
Cheryl T. Goodman is a native of Baltimore, Maryland and a graduate of Carnegie-Mellon University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Professional and Creative Writing/Verbal and Visual Communications. A classically trained pianist, “dance hobbyist,” published feature writer, successful grant writer, and on-air radio and television personality, Ms. Goodman has studied, worked, and performed in the professional arena of arts and entertainment since 1982, and specifically, non-profit arts administration since 1985. As a producer and presenter, Cheryl Goodman has staged events over the years featuring national artists such as Wynton Marsalis, Cyrus Chestnut, Terence Blanchard, Roy Ayers and Sweet Honey in the Rock and in nightclubs, theatres, and festivals such as St. Peter’s Church in NYC, Prospect Park (Brooklyn, NY), Lisner Auditorium (WDC) and more. Since 1994, she has produced jazz festivals and concerts and is the founder of the Jazz in the Sculpture Garden series at The Baltimore Museum of Art. Cheryl was the Associate Convention Director of the JazzTimes Convention, the largest international gathering of jazz industry professionals held annually in New York City , a consultant to Billboard magazine on the first Billboard/BET on Jazz Conference and for five years, producer of the popular Cylburn Sounds: Jazz Under the Stars, a free, bi weekly, summer jazz series featuring regional jazz performers and attracting more than a thousand attendees at each event. |
Ms. Goodman is published as a feature writer and arts critic in national art and entertainment trade newsletters, online services and magazines such as JazzTimes, Midwest Jazz, Down Beat, Dance Magazine and BET Weekend and has interviewed dance, theatre and music greats such as Martha Graham, Judith Jamison, Patti LaBelle, Bobby Caldwell, Lisa Fischer, Katherine Dunham, Gladys Knight, Patrice Rushen, David Parsons, Dr. Billy Taylor, Wynton Marsalis, Herbie Hancock, Miriam Makeba and more. She is currently the Editor/Publisher of the online magazine, What’s HOT in the DMV with “Your Girl Cheryl.
She was an on-air adjudicator/panelist for the cable television show “Jazz Discovery” on Black Entertainment Television (BET) for four years with notable jazz masters such as Chick Corea and Herbie Mann and served as head judge in Vocal Music/Contemporary for the annual national ACTSO Competition of the NAACP (1996 – 1999). She was producer/host of “In the Spotlight,” a 30-minute talk show in Baltimore featuring personalities such as international supermodel Carre’ Otis and Malikah Shabazz, daughter of Malcolm X and was on air at WEAA FM in Baltimore for over 10 years as “Your Girl Cheryl” and regularly hosts concerts and special events at major venues including The Lyric, Gordon Center for the Performing Arts, Baltimore Center Stage and more. Ms. Goodman has appeared regularly on and provided services for the Smithsonian Institution; The Baltimore Museum of Art; National Endowment for the Arts; Maryland Council for Dance; Station North Arts & Entertainment District; The Tremont Hotel; Arena Players, WJZ-TV13; WMAR-TV, WBFF-TV; Howard University; Maryland Film Commission; The Community College of Baltimore County; Baltimore School for the Arts; Towson University; The Writers Center; National Association of Black Storytellers and The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. 
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