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Save the Music Foundation has selected Jesse Collins as this year’s #MusicSaves honoree. The live-event veteran — a founder and CEO of Jesse Collins Entertainment who has spent more than two decades in the industry — is being singled out “for his achievements as a trailblazing executive and one of the most visible and successful producers in the industry,” per the organization. The award follows a banner year for Collins that saw him credited on such productions as the Pepsi Super Bowl Halftime Show, the Academy Awards, the BET Awards, BET Hip-Hop Awards, the Soul Train Awards and American Music Awards – all during a pandemic. In today’s announcement, Save the Music Foundation noted that Collins serves as an ideal role model for students as someone whose success “falls perfectly in line wi...