Uab Music Alumnus John Strohm Named Rounder Records President

By Shannon Thomason

Musician, attorney and University of Alabama at Birmingham alumnus John Strohm was recently named president of Rounder Records in Nashville.

Strohm came to UAB in 1998 to finish his undergraduate degree after years of performing and producing music: He was a founding member of the trio Blake Babies, was the front man for Velo-Deluxe and toured with The Lemonheads. He had dropped out after two years at Berklee College of Music in Boston to pursue his music career. He moved to Birmingham to be with his then-girlfriend, Heather, with plans to finish his degree and then start law school to become an entertainment lawyer. He and Heather married in 2000.

It was hard emotionally to go back to school at 30, he says, but once he got started, he found it much easier to focus on his studies than he thought, and was a much better student. He majored in history with a minor in music, in what is now the College of Arts and Sciences.“Music technology was my minor, but it really helped me to learn emerging technologies,” Strohm said. He enjoyed the Department of Music’s music technology ensembles and classes, and he became more proficient on piano.

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