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Says Tom Corson, cochairman of Lipa’s label, Warner Records: “What we’re seeing is the dawning of a new superstar.”

In January Trump nominated one of McConnell’s top staffers, Tim Thomas, to be the federal cochairman of the commission.

Celebration founder and cochairman Carolyn Vance Smith said this year’s conference gives a reverent nod to a wide range of Mississippi natives.

Now add Messina, who oversaw President Obama’s 2012 reelection campaign; cochairman David Sacks, who worked under Musk at PayPal before scoring big at Yammer; Peter Diamandis, founder of the X Prize Foundation, on whose board Musk sits; and BamBrogan, who until recently was one of Musk’s key SpaceX engineers.

When she first came to Blue Mountain, Aronoff was a 20-year-old Oberlin senior sociology student and cochairman of Oberlin Action for Civil Rights.