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Bev Paul

Bev Paul was an American music executive, raised in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, who joined Durham's Sugar Hill Records as marketing director in 1991 and became general manager in 1998. She helped build the label into a leading roots music brand, working with artists such as Nickel Creek, Dolly Parton, Sam Bush, and Robert Earl Keen. She served on the IBMA board, took part in founding the Americana Music Association, and was honored at the Country Music Hall of Fame's Louise Scruggs Memorial Forum in 2020. She died of lung cancer in Durham at 76.

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