member profiles

Bassist and president of Declassified Records, Jon Pomplin has decades of experience in the music industry as a professional musician, producer, engineer, songwriter, film composer and video creator/editor. He’s been the owner & president of "Declassified Music B.M.I.” and “Declassified Records" since the early 2000s, having worked for a label as a session player and running their marketing, web and A&R efforts. In 2008 Jon launched the visual arts element “Declassified.TV" with several award winning internationally released films and videos.

"I've always played guitar, I've had one since I was a kid. Played it here and there, maybe at a party or two. However, it was nothing serious." It wasn't until early March of 2018, where I had learned I'd be starting a new business, as a singer/songwriter. I picked up the guitar one day after work, and never put it down. Its always been sitting in the corner, but one day I decided, hey, I'm gonna write a song on this thing. Since then I caught the songwriting bug, and that's incurable"

Jon Samson, MA MTBC is the first board certified music therapist in history to receive a Grammy®, and the first native South African to win for Best Children's Album! Jon resides in Brooklyn, NY and founded CoCreative Music® in 2005 where he offers a unique combination of music therapy, audio/video production, artistic mentoring and life coaching to inspire "The Child Archetype" in all ages.

A graduate of The Juilliard School, Jonathan’s performance career has taken him to acclaimed concert halls around the world – including solo engagements at The Louvre Museum in Paris, Kennedy Center in Washington D.C., and the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing. He and Philip Sheegog form the award-winning electro-acoustic duo known as ARKAI.

Jonathan Parks is the founder and executive producer of music for film, trailers, commercials, promos, and television at ALIBI Music. ALIBI's exclusive music and sound design catalog, which is produced by our internal team with a roster of over 350 composers and artists in 21 one countries, can be heard on every major film marketing campaign in the last decade, thousands of commercials, promos, and countless scripted and unscripted television shows, video games and video game trailers throughout the world.