Connie Orlando has always danced to her own beat while navigating an evolving entertainment business, a field in which she has grown from a young entrepreneur producing music programming into overseeing some of the industry’s most iconic content franchises.
It’s quite an accomplishment for the Queens, New York, native who, growing up, wasn’t focused on entertainment. “I was the first in my family to go to college, and back then you went to college to be a doctor, lawyer or accountant,” she said. “That’s it — there was no other anything.”
