Profiles Index

Entertainment Lawyer Career Profile
Entertainment lawyers that specialize in music help negotiate contracts for their clients and work to ensure that their clients are getting a fair deal. Learn more about entertainment lawyers and music lawyers, including how to become and entertainment lawyers and how much entertainment lawyers make.

Artist Manager
Love music, but can't play? Artist management may be for you. Find out what a day is like in the life of a band manager and how to get started in this field.

Session Musician Career Profile
Is work as a session musician right for you? Find out about life as a session musician including how to find session musician work in this career profile.

Sonicbids
Sonicbids acts as gatekeeper for just about every music festival and trade show imaginable, not to mention tons and tons of music promoters. Learn more about the company, including the controversy surrounding them.

Music Agent
If you want to be the one who makes the tours happen, then the job of a music agent may be for you. Agents work with promoters and bands to make sure concerts get booked - find out more about how this job works, and how you can become an agent yourself.

Music Promoter
Promoters work hand in hand with agents and bands to make shows happen. They get the word out about upcoming events and make sure there is a full house to hear the band. Find out what being a promoter involves and decide if this job is right for you.

Clive Davis Profile
Clive Davis is something of a rock star among major music execs and thumbs up or thumbs down from his had made or broken many a career. He's always something of a controversial figure, but there is no denying he has spotted some of the biggest selling artists in music history.

Seymour Stein Profile
One of the most important tastemakers in the music industry, Seymour Stein hasn't so much reacted to trends as making them himself. He's discovered artists as diverse as The Talking Heads and Madonna and has managed to survive decades in the music industry - no mean feat. His story is a model for all aspiring label types out there.