American music executive, associated with Christian music. Beeson was the lead singer of the band Uthanda. He founded Essential Records in 1992, which was purchased by Provident/Brentwood/Zomba. He remained with Essential until 2002, when he became a senior executive in A&R at Provident/Sony. He went on to form Advocate Entertainment and iShine and in 2009 became partner and CCO At BEMA Media.