The Career Musician
Learn the secrets of the music industry and how to build a lasting career!
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May 22, 2023 • 32 mins
Sherilyn is a Singer-Songwriter, Producer, Podcast Host, and Music Career Coach. After working in the CCM/Worship scene, she set out as an independently published pop alternative artist and launched her own record label & publishing company, Starboard Stride.
After touring as a solo artist through the U.S., Australia, Italy, Switzerland, and Brazil, Sherilyn settled on the Central Coast of California and built a home studio where s...
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May 15, 2023 • 37 mins
Jody Friedman is an award-winning songwriter/producer, music supervisor, music publisher, and music licensing coach.
He is the co-founder of Elite Music Coaching, an online platform available for independent musicians interested in learning how to have a thriving career in music by consistently licensing their songs to films, tv shows and ads.
His career began working for CNN in Atlanta, NYC & California. While working as an Audio ...
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Eric Baines is a singer, songwriter, and the current bassist for the legendary band Chicago! Eric's music has also been featured on MTV, VH1, NBC, ABCFamily and HBO. He has toured and recorded with country icon, Dwight Yoakam, but he’s taken some crazy turns to get there. After attending Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA, he moved back to his home town of Denver where he eked out a living playing blues in bars and nightclubs. ...
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Belle is a Grammy-nominated singer, songwriter, and artist with credits such as Kanye West, Jennifer Lopez, Miley Cyrus, Christina Aguilera, George Duke, Eric Benet, and Idina Menzel. In her off-time, Belle is always hustling to maintain her position in the biz as a Career Musician. Are you doing everything you can to stay employed? Listen as Belle reveals her secrets to longevity in the music industry.
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April 28, 2023 • 18 mins
If you're not familiar with NAMM, its the biggest convention for music gear manufacturers held in Los Angeles at the top of the year, and also in Nashville in the summer. This event is where musicians and music retailers go to make connections, whole sale distribution deals, and endorsement deals. Also, it's a great reunion for people in the business who may not have seen each other in a long while. So if you are lucky enough to ge...
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April 26, 2023 • 38 mins
Big Swede is a Composer, Producer, Engineer, Sound Designer, Programmer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Remixer, DJ, Drummer, who maintains a prolific recording and production career, doing business as Palm Desert based BIG SWEDE STUDIOS. He makes a variety of styles, from Electronica to Rock, Club/Dance to Hip-Hop, Big Beat to Jazz, Metal to Soundtrack and beyond. Big Swede has had many sync placements throughout his career and now he's h...
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April 24, 2023 • 54 mins
Michael Walker is leading a revolution in today’s music industry. Having personally reached 17 million views on YouTube, working with Grammy Award-winning producers and touring internationally to perform for hundreds of thousands of fans worldwide - Michael is one of those rare mentors who has actually walked the walk of their own methodology.
Starting out with pure grass-roots techniques, he and his band Paradise Fears went from l...
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Tangelene Bolton is a Filipina-American film, TV, and media composer based in Los Angeles, CA. She first got her start working for A-list composers Hans Zimmer (The Lion King, Gladiator, The Dark Knight, Interstellar), Henry Jackman (X-Men, Captain America), and Bobby Tahouri (Game of Thrones, Iron Man).
A Berklee College of Music Film Scoring graduate, Tangelene’s distinct music style is a mashup of Neoclassical, electronic, fol...
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April 18, 2023 • 93 mins
Michelle is the Founder and Owner of Mixing Music Live, a online program which helps aspiring sound engineers reach their musical goals! For the past 30 years, Michelle has had the wonderful pleasure of helping people enjoy great live performances from their favorite artists all over the world. During that time, she's spent an average of 250 days/year on tour as the sound engineer for some of the likes of Melissa Etheridge, Goo Goo...
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April 12, 2023 • 42 mins
Dylan of SmashHaus is a career music producer, Radio Host, Entertainment investor who has been very active publicly supporting disruptive change to the antiquated music industry in support of the artist community. He is listed in the top 1% "most prolific" media music producers by IMDB and Founder of NoizSociety, a secret society of leaders in the music business, and Former Co-Host of the Hollywood Music in Media Awards and more.
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April 11, 2023 • 14 mins
Why are celebrity music artists selling their publishing catalogs at an alarming rate? Take a deep dive with Nomad & Lola, two independent music artists who have also worked in the music biz for over 30 years with some of the biggest stars in the industry.
There are several reasons why celebrity music artists are selling their publishing catalogs at an alarming rate. First and foremost, the music industry has been undergoing treme...
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March 20, 2023 • 11 mins
Many people think that winning a music award is the key to success, but is this really true? Others seem to believe that winning a music award is the secret to becoming a superstar. Is that really the case? Listen as Nomad and Lola discuss the 2023 Grammy Awards and the Super Bowl halftime performance by Rihanna. Nomad talks about his perspective as a 30 year career musician veteran, and Lola brings her media smarts to the table as...
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December 12, 2022 • 51 mins
The Ultimate Music Business Summit is a three-day virtual conference with over two dozen presentations designed to help you grow your career. Learn how to kill the Impostor Syndrome, break through your Upper Limits, stop asking permission, be honest about what you want, and start making money!
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September 22, 2022 • 52 mins
Scott Page is a musician, technologist, and entrepreneur known for his saxophone and rhythm guitar work with Pink Floyd, Supertramp, and Toto. Page is CEO of Think:EXP, a Los Angeles-based media company focused on live immersive entertainment. Page worked on and led a number of ventures, including Walt Tucker Productions, an audio video post production company that produced projects for The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Janet Jackson, ...
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June 6, 2022 • 78 mins
Save The Music partners with public school districts to jump start their music education programs, so that students, schools, and communities can reach their full potential through the power of making music. Since its founding in 1997, Save The Music has provided new musical instruments, equipment, and technology to over 2,000 schools in almost 300 school districts nationwide. Donahue came to Save The Music from Purpose, a digital ...
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May 30, 2022 • 46 mins
A queer Alt-pop singer, songwriter, and mental health advocate; X. Ari founded WisdoManiaFest and WisdoMania Foundation; combining mental health and the arts in order to normalize mental health by creating a safe environment of acceptance and support. X. Ari's life motto is all about turning "Pain into Power" through art and self-care. It is her mission to use creativity to empower and raise awareness by using her platform to encou...
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May 20, 2022 • 34 mins
ETHOS | The Career Musician’s Code approaches the music career with a unique philosophy and provides concrete career insights from Career Musician “Lifer”, NOMAD.
https://proseries.thecareermusician.com/ethos
NOMAD has been a career musician since the early 90’s and continues to work with some of the best musical talents in the world.
In his new book, ETHOS | The Career Musician’s Code, NOMAD, explains the mindset and code of con...
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December 30, 2021 • 50 mins
Leslie Odom Jr. is a singer, songwriter, broadway star, actor, and author. He best known for his portrayal of Aaron Burr in the musical Hamilton, which earned him a 2016 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical and a Grammy Award for Best Musical Theater Album in the same year. Odom Jr.’s self-titled debut album charted at #1 on the Billboard Jazz chart and #147 on the Billboard 200. In 2017, he re-released Simply C...
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December 27, 2021 • 41 mins
Ric Mightybone Feliciano is a Puerto Rican 35 year music industry veteran. Ric is a trombonist, multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and lead singer from Brooklyn, N.Y. who has performed with the likes of Billy Joel, Paul Simon, John Lee Hooker, Jr., Pete Escovedo, Willy Torres, Phil Driscoll, Zucchero, Toto, Foreigner, Jimmy Bosch, and many others. Ric, also known as Mightybone, is also a voting member of the Grammys and the Latin Gr...
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December 23, 2021 • 117 mins
Ralph played the Hammond organ/keyboards for Bobby Jones Gospel on Black Entertainment Television for twelve years and toured with Bebe and Cece Winans. With over 300 project appearances to his credit, Ralph’s career has taken him all over the world and has afforded him the opportunity to accompany numerous artists including the late Whitney Houston, Stevie Wonder, the late Luther Vandross, Aretha Franklin, and the late Walter Hawk...
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