Vie Marshall

Vie Marshall is a British music journalist & impresario born in Reading, Berkshire. She's credited with helping break Hip Hop culture, rap music and acts such as Soul II Soul in the UK.
Early work
Her first forays in music journalism came when she convinced a local newspaper, Reading Evening Post, to let her review local concerts. Following the publication of her first three articles, she was offered a job at the paper. Once she had left school and started attending college, Vie began working on local radio shows and producing her own fanzine, Exposure.
Magazines
Marshall did her first internship at Record Mirror, later writing for them professionally. Following her stint of work experience at Record Mirror, Vie became Assistant Music Editor at The Voice Newspaper. From there, she went on to freelance for a number of publications, including Hip Hop Connection; PopShop; Rage; ; i-D; The Daily Mirror; Mixmag; Blues & Soul and her own publication The Drum.
Nightclub ventures & corporate sponsorship
Together with a group of female hip-hop journalists and DJs, Marshall hosted the Muthaland club nights in London's West End. She had already made a stance against the negative aspects of Gangsta rap and so continued it with Muthaland.
Other work
On signing with Virgin Records in the early 90s, Janet Jackson Vie was commissioned by Janet Jackson and Virgin as Jackson’s official biography writer.
Her work as a manager, consultant and agent has seen her work with BBC Radio 1, Hil St Soul, Vannessa Simon, Omar Lye-Fook, Jeffrey Daniel (Shalamar) and Move.meant.

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