We will issue a Blues U. trial Alumni membership card to anyone who submits a qualifying archive entry. You can save this template file and fill it in to save yourself time. When you have filled it in, email it to archives@bluesu.com, and after we have reviewed and approved it, you'll receive an email with the details on your Alumni membership card. Please sign your name at the bottom of the bio, we want to give credit where it is due, and also you may include an email link if you wish to be contacted as a research resource for ongoing film or book projects, or just to help people who are interested in the person whom you have biographied.

The 3 general guidelines are as follows:

• You must submit a biographical outline of a blues performer (living or deceased) or historical figure (e.g., record producers/club owners and writers are acceptable), including a brief biography of his/her contibrution to musical history or culture, in approximately 250 words, including references to mentors (people who taught them or influenced them) and "proteges" (people whom they influenced or taught). Please include hyperlinks of other web pages which detail more information about the performer.
• If there are books or recordings that best exemplify their talent, please include those as well in a bibliographical reference at the end of the biography. You may also include a reference to your home page, as part of your signature at the end of the document. An example is given here. Please reference the index page of the archive before submitting a biographical outline, but feel free to submit a duplicate biography if you feel the outline provided is insufficient or incomplete. Rock and pop stars are acceptable and welcomed as topics, if you can present a compelling argument for their link to the blues tradition. You may want to review a few of the accepted bios in the index as examples.
• All submissions are subject to approval by Blues University, and may be edited for clarity or length before posting to the archive. Upon posting, Blues U. will email to the submitter a temporary Blues U. Alumni Card which will be subject to all restrictions as designated by the issuer.