June 20 - Jack Soden in Memphis Hall of Fame

Memphis Music Hall of Fame announced its 2024 inductees. Besides various musicians like Wilson Pickett, the 2024 Memphis Music Hall of Fame class also includes veteran Memphis music businessmen Jack Soden, head of Graceland / Elvis Presley Enterprises. 

The newly minted hall of famers will be formally inducted Sept. 27 during public ceremonies at the Cannon Center for the Performing Arts. Carr and Pickett will be enshrined posthumously.

The Memphis Music Hall of Fame stated: "A native of Kansas City, Missouri, Soden was working in money management when he met Priscilla Presley in the early 1980s and helped the Presley family develop a plan for opening Graceland. 

Forty years later, Graceland has become one of the nation’s premier tourist attractions with more than 600,000 visitors annually. Under Soden’s leadership the company has grown to more than 400 employees, bringing an estimated US$200 million per year to the Memphis economy - while Elvis Presley Enterprises has steadily grown into a entertainment, licensing, merchandising and music publishing juggernaut."

(Source: Commercial Appeal)