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Pamela called her attorney, Esq. Lomas, for him to assess her. Esq. Lomas arrived one hour after she called him and they studied the contract together.
“This is a great contract, unless you want Philip to have the freedom to write songs for the artists of any record company.”
“They are offering awesome royalties. How can I turn that down? I mean we‘re talking about my son‘s future here. I am going to keep supporting my son with my money and every penny that my son receives from these people I‘m going to put it in a bank-account under my name and my son‘s name.”
“So you are going to sign this contract.”
“I just wanted to know if it would be good for me to sign it.” “That‘s if you don‘t care about the restrictions in the contract.”
“I just asked for your advice to make sure that they‘re not taking advantage of my son.” “The only con that I see in this contract is that your son is obligated to only give his
songs to Bennett Records, and if they found out that he‘s given his song to an artist that belongs to another record company, he‘ll be sued for not complying with this contract,” Esq. Lomas explained.
“It‘s all about the royalties, Esq. Lomas. Just to let you know, this is not the first record label that my son has offered his songs to. I have copies of the other contracts that the other record labels have given him, and they would only offer ten percent of the royalties. Bennett Records offers thirty percent of the royalties. I would like fifty percent, but no one offers that, so thirty percent is enough for me.”
“Ok,” said the attorney and walked out of the office, “if you say so.” He left and closed the door behind him.
Meanwhile, Pamela and Philip signed the contract together, and Pamela‘s secretary, Hope, signed as the witness. Then, they faxed the document to Robinson directly. Robinson received it, legalized it, and filed it in court. Robinson was happy with his new songwriter. It occurred to Robinson that perhaps in the near future, Philip could be a singer if he wanted to.
Robinson realized when Philip was talking to him, that Philip‘s voice was perfect for singing. If Philip became interested in a singing career, he would definitely be one of the best male singers in our generation.
Three months later
Philip‘s song was number one in the world chart and Sheena Brown‘s biggest hit. She was receiving a Golden Bear Award for it. The Golden Bear was music‘s biggest award. It awarded artists and songwriters for having the highest sales and just for being great.
Sheena was on stage, behind a podium before an audience of twenty thousand people and thirty million people were watching the Golden Bear Awards on television in the United States alone and three hundred million people were watching them all over the world. “I want to thank God, first and foremost, for the miracle of surviving death so many times and giving me so many chances. I want to thank my mom and my dad for bringing me into this world and raising me with so much love, giving me everything I needed even though they had hardly any money and doing everything in their power to help me realize my dream. I want to thank everyone at Bennett Records for believing in me and making my dream come true. If I left anyone out, sue me.” When she was about to leave, she went back to the microphone and said, “This has never