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Producer of Live 8 and creator of Live Earth
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Kevin Wall was born in Fort Wayne in March 1952 and grew up in one of the city's best-known family settings: he was one of a family of fourteen that lived at and ran the Roller Dome skating rink, where he worked as the disc jockey. A North Side High School graduate, he began producing events at the Embassy Theatre while still in his teens and left home at eighteen. In 1984 he founded Radio Vision International, which distributed and produced the era's defining benefit concerts — Live Aid, Human Rights Now!, and the Nelson Mandela seventieth-birthday tribute. His production company, Control Room, executive-produced Live 8 in 2005, which won the first Emmy Award given for content delivered over the internet; he created and executive-produced Live Earth on July 7, 2007, organized with Al Gore. He went on to produce the 2010 FIFA World Cup Kick-Off Celebration Concert and to co-found the virtual-reality company Dreamscape Immersive and the investment fund PTK Capital. Reference sources give two birth dates for Wall, March 5 and March 15, 1952; the month and year are consistent across them.
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Sources: Ivy Tech Northeast (2016 commencement release, identifying Wall as a Fort Wayne native and North Side graduate); Indiana Music Makers.