Extra In Music, a nonprofit group devoted to supporting and educating future generations of music business professionals, introduced the formation of its 2024-2025 Advisory Board. Based in 2019 by business veteran Noelle Chesnut Whitmore, the group is presently getting ready for its first Extra In Music convention, anticipated to happen in Los Angeles within the spring of 2025. The occasion will present useful insights into the internal workings of the music business by panel discussions, mentoring, workshops and networking alternatives.
The newly fashioned advisory board consists of artists, executives and professionals from high firms together with Dwell Nation, Columbia Data, the Recording Academy, Interscope and Parkwood Leisure. Notable names embrace Cheryl “Salt” James of legendary duo Salt-N-Pepa and Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Kenyon Dixon.
The advisory board is split into three key teams: conventional advisors, bridge advisors and future era advisors. Property advisors embrace music icons and veterans reminiscent of Cheryl James and Damien Smith of Full Cease Administration and Parkwood Leisure. Bridge Consultants embrace professionals who bridge the generational hole, together with Kenyon Dixon. In the meantime, the longer term era of consultants are younger, aspiring professionals, together with two college college students and one latest graduate, who will acquire sensible expertise by the board. Bridge advisors embrace Yannick “Thurz” Koffi (artist and creator of “Occasion in My Residing Room”), Lauren Gaspard (Director of City Advertising, Interscope Data), and Chrystal Anderson (Head of Advertising, Gala Music).
Extra In Music conferences, run in partnership with college students, will present a singular studying expertise for the subsequent wave of music business leaders. The occasion will function workshops, keynotes and panel conversations designed to teach individuals on numerous music profession paths.
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