As founder of two formidable rock bands, The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Randy Bachman has accrued over 120 platinum, gold and silver album/singles awards from around the world. His songwriting has garnered the coveted #1 spot on radio playlists in over 20 countries and his total record sales exceed 40 million albums and singles. As host of the top-rated CBC and Sirius XM radio program Randy Bachman’s Vinyl Tap, Randy’s listeners each week worldwide number in the millions. He can also add best-selling author to his numerous list of accomplishments, having penned both Vinyl Tap Stories and Tales From Beyond The Tap.
Stephen Baird is a composer and producer whose music has been heard in a wide array of media formats including advertising campaigns, globally syndicated television shows, music videos, short films, commercials, and video games. He works tirelessly to craft music that is tailored to a specific project, blending all the right sounds and rhythms that truly complement and enhance the finished product. Steve credits TAXI with showing him the path, giving him the tools and education he needed, and the relationships that have enabled him to earn a consistent six-figure income with his music. Baird’s music has been heard on thousands of MTV episodes, as well as countless placements in hit TV shows on ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX, Bravo, HGTV, TLC and many, many more!
Steve Barden is a production music composer for film and television. His music can be heard on television somewhere in the world on a daily basis. His music has aired on every network, cable, and streaming service known to man. Steve is also an author, having written two books on production music: Writing Production Music for TV: The Road to Success, and Deconstructing Production Music for TV: Secrets Behind Writing Successful Music Cues. He has scored animated television series Tic Tac Toons, Journey to the Heart of the World, and Button Nose for Saban Entertainment. He also scored the award winning animated short, “The Baseball Card Shop,” originally produced by Nickelodeon. He has also written jingles and theme songs for Los Angeles radio personalities, Mark & Brian, and also Kevin & Bean.
Arnold “Chanon” Bloch, L.C.S.W., M.J.C.S., speaker, psychotherapist, songwriter and success coach has spent 36 years helping people use adversity as a growth opportunity to live fully empowered lives. Tapping into psychological and universal spiritual principles, Arnold is passionate about helping people achieve their highest aspirations regardless of the circumstances they find themselves in.
Jason Blume’s songs are on Grammy-nominated albums and have sold more than 50 million copies. He is the author of 6 Steps to Songwriting Success, This Business of Songwriting, and Inside Songwriting, all published by Billboard Books. One of the only writers to simultaneously have songs on Billboard’s Pop, Country and R&B charts, Jason’s songs have been recorded by artists including Britney Spears, the Backstreet Boys, the Gipsy Kings, Jesse McCartney, the Nashville Chamber Orchestra, and international stars such as Christian Ingebrigtsen, Tomohisa Yamashita (#1 J-Pop EP), Hi-5 (winners of Greek Idol, certified “platinum”), as well as country music stars including Collin Raye (6 cuts), the Oak Ridge Boys, Steve Azar, and John Berry (“Change My Mind,” a top 5 single that earned a BMI “Million-Aire” Award for garnering more than one million airplays). Jason shares an Emmy Award and an additional nomination for his musical contributions to episodes of PBS’ Frontline, and he wrote the end credit theme for the hit animated film, Barbie of Swan Lake. Additional TV and film credits include placements on NBC, MTV, and Disney Channel.
Bobby Borg, MCM is a former major label, independent, and DIY recording/touring artist with over 30 years experience working alongside the most respected musicians, songwriters, managers, producers, and A&R executives in the music industry. He also served as Interim Chairman of Music Business at Musician’s Institute in Hollywood, California, and a lecturer of music business at institutions like Berklee College of Music, University of Miami, and University of California Los Angeles Extension. Borg is also an adjunct professor at USC Thornton School of Music where he teaches Music Industry Communications and DIY Music Marketing. He also runs Bobby Borg Consulting, where he helps independent artists and music business professionals turn their art into a more successful business. As a music business author, Borg has written four widely read books: Music Marketing For The DIY Musician, Business Basics For Musicians, The Musicians Handbook, Introduction to Music Publishing For Musicians and over 1,000 highly publicized magazine and blog articles for Billboard.com, Hypebot, SonicBids, Music Connection, Disc Makers, Bandzoogle, and more.
Joe Brandt (Music Supervisor, Music Publisher and Content Creator) got his start in the music business as a recording engineer and working musician in New York City. Shortly after, Joe became a production assistant working at various indie labels and music production libraries in the tri-state area eventually becoming CTO at We3Kings, Inc. While at W3K, he handled all aspects of their music library, internet marketing and the auditioning and hiring of composers for various projects under the W3K umbrella. Now living in Los Angeles, Joe is a Music Supervisor and Music Publisher providing Music Clearance, Licensing, Supervision for television and film as well as Curating and Metadata Services for various music production libraries.
Tamara Bubble is a rapper, singer, songwriter, producer and now independently published author with her debut nonfiction release From Sync to Superstar. Bubble has well over 100+ commercial music releases including four album projects and two EPs. Her latest album, Your Favorite Rapper is a Girl 3, is slated to drop this November and her music has landed some major licensing wins independently. Her most notable clients include Disney, HBO, Showtime, Verizon, NBC, ABC, CBS, AT&T, Paramount, Universal Pictures, HULU, Netflix, Freeform, CW, FOX, BET, VH1, National Geographic, Lifetime, USA Network, Samsung, Cadillac, Facebook, Legal Zoom, Pretty Little Thing, Metro by T-Mobile, Instagram, TikTok and many more! Bubble has also opened for some major acts including Lil Mo, Joell Ortiz, Cassidy, Snootie Wild, Yo Gotti, Young Thug and more. She has also performed at SXSW, A3C hip hop festival, iMusic Festival, Southport Spring Festival and Apollo Theatre.
Keyboardist and cellist, Greg Carrozza is a veteran composer of music for TV, film and advertising specializing in Pop, EDM, Hip Hop, Tension, Piano and Orchestral works. With decades of experience in performance and composition, Greg brings substantial insight into the world of music for picture. His music has been heard on A&E, BET, BRAVO, CBS, CMT, CNN, Comedy Central, E!, FOX Sports, Hulu, MTV, NBC, Netflix, Nick Toons, Nickelodeon, OWN, TBS, TeenNick, The CW, TNT, USA, VH1, WeTV.
Rob Chiarelli is a 4x GRAMMY® award winning Mix Engineer and Producer with dozens of Gold & Platinum albums. His credits include Will Smith, Tori Kelly, P!nk, Kirk Franklin, Christina Aguilera, Ice Cube, Charlie Wilson, Angelique Kidjo & Sting. Since the last Road Rally, Rob has mixed several #1 Billboard hits and had numerous sync placements in TV shows, commercials, and motion picture soundtracks.
Pedro Costa is a Canadian Singer/Songwriter, Music Producer, Media Composer, and the CEO of Music Licensing company InStyle Music. In 2011 Pedro discovered the world of Music Licensing/Synch and was hooked. Since then his music has been used in over a thousand productions around the world. Clients and productions include: 13 Reasons Why (Netflix), BMW (Ad), Shameless (Showtime), America’s Got Talent (NBC), Young and the Restless (CBS), Chicago Fire (NBC), and many more. In 2014 Pedro founded his own Music Licensing company InStyle Music. Providing Indie Artist songs, Production Music, and Custom Music for all media, InStyle has established itself as a trusted source for Music Supervisors, Editors, Directors, and Producers across North America.
As an Emmy Award winning film and TV composer, Matt de Luca is also co-owner of Figure and Groove, an original music scoring house and highly respected publisher of a library with over 5000 tracks, including an independent artist catalog called Artist Friendly featuring music in all styles. Working alongside a knowledgeable team with many years of experience, Matt oversees A&R, production and overall direction for the artist catalog, which also includes managing its representation by Figure and Groove’s sub-publishers in territories throughout the world for truly global representation of its artists.
Marty Dodson is one of the most accomplished writers in Nashville with 10 #1 songs and more than 125 cuts. Some notable hit singles penned by Marty include "Fire It Up” by Joe Cocker, “Everybody Wants to Go to Heaven” by Kenny Chesney, “Must Be Doin’ Somethin’ Right” and “Let Me Down Easy” by Billy Currington. His songs have been recorded by numerous other artists including: Blake Shelton, George Strait, Carrie Underwood, Rascal Flatts, The Plain White T’s, The Oak Ridge Boys, Don Williams, Johnny Reid, Billy Ray Cyrus and Big & Rich. Marty’s self-professed “greatest achievement” in his songwriting career to date was knocking artist Psy (“Gangnam Style”) out of the #1 spot in South Korea and winning “Song of the Year” honors for South Korea and all of Asia with his song “Bounce” recorded by Cho Yong Pil. Marty currently resides in Nashville TN with his wife Candy. He is a partner and co-founder of SongTown.Com and is a writer for Sail Away Music.
As president of PEN, Michael Eames oversees all aspects of the operation as well as focuses on pitching the catalogue to all media and business development. Immediately prior to starting PEN, Michael oversaw the international and film & TV departments of Don Williams Music Group and also worked previously for Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys and the management and music supervision firms The Derek Power Co and Seth Kaplan Entertainment. Michael currently serves on the Unclaimed Royalties Oversight Committee (UROC) of The Mechanical Licensing Collective (MLC) and on the Independent Publishers Advisory Council (IPAC) of the National Music Publishers Association (NMPA). He served as the National President of the Association Of Independent Music Publishers (AIMP) from 2015-2018 and served as its National Vice President from 2013-2014. Michael co-authored (with Bobby Borg) the new book Introduction To Music Publishing For Musicians, is a frequent guest speaker in both real and virtual classrooms and panel discussions worldwide, and co-teaches (also with Borg) the online UCLA Extension class Music Publishing: A Creative And Business Perspective.
Fett is an independent music producer and engineer, author, music career coach, co-founder of the Azalea Music Group in Nashville, and recording/mixing engineer for the 2015 Australian #1 Album: Jason Owen’s Friday Night. He is the author of the popular book Fett’s Mixing Roadmap: A Step-by-step Guide To Mixing Music In The Studio, host of EmpoweringWomenInAudio.com and teacher of hands-on recording and production clinics for women. He is the former Technology Editor for Performing Songwriter magazine, and occasional journalist for CMA Close Up, Drum! and Keyboard magazines. Fett’s diverse list of clients includes Davy Jones of the Monkees, Grammy-winning songwriter Don Henry, and international guitar virtuosos Tommy Emmanuel and Muriel Anderson.
Robin Frederick is the author of top-selling songwriting books, including Shortcuts to Hit Songwriting and Shortcuts to Songwriting for Film & TV. She is a former Director of A&R for Rhino Records and Executive Producer of more than 60 albums. Over the course of her career, she has written and produced more than 500 songs for television, records, theater, and audio products. She is also the creator of online courses for songwriters in Film & TV songwriting and contemporary lyric writing. Visit RobinFrederick.com for Hit Song Guides and more.
Jeff Freundlich is the COO of Fervor Records, known for one-stop licensing of authentic period recordings and select indie artists. He mentors up and coming songwriters through a rigorous A&R process at Fervor. Jeff is also a composer and songwriter with a wide range of credits across film and television.
Peter Greco is a composer, arranger, producer, multi-instrumentalist, music supervisor, former advertising industry executive and audio technology specialist...but still just a guitar player at heart. His musical talents led him to the world of advertising where as Senior Vice President/Executive Music Producer at Young and Rubicam NY where he produced iconic, award-winning campaigns for Accenture, AT&T, SONY, Bacardi, Jaguar, Xerox, US Army, Citibank, among others. He was also given the title of AT&T Global Music Director. After a 17-year run at Y&R, in 2009 he started his own media industry consultancy focusing on music production, supervision, and Brand partnerships. He continually works with Saturday Night Live Music Director Leon Pendarvis on a wide range of projects and has served as music supervisor for NBC’s Content Innovation Agency. He was instrumental in landing sponsorship deals for Lil Wayne and the Atlantic City Commission, Blondie and H&M, Passion Pit and USA Network, The Who 50th Anniversary Tour, Motley Crue / The Final Tour, Imagine Dragons and C Spire…..and just recently produced ESPN’s 2021 Hockey Theme. For the last 10 years he has served as Senior Advisor for Bongiovi Acoustic Labs, a revolutionary digital audio technology company founded by old friend and legendary producer, Tony Bongiovi. Leveraging Bongiovi technology, along with colleague Andrew Knox, he launched ReMasterMedia - which is a series of professional audio mastering platforms designed to restore fidelity to streaming audio and other digital media formats.
Ron Harris is a former A&R Executive for Epic and Sony Records, and a Record Producer whose credits include artists like Christina Aguilera, Hoku, Christopher Williams, Adina Howard, Orianthi, and Allison Irehata.
Chuck Henry is a recording artist, producer, composer, and publisher with credits that range from radio, television, commercials, and films. His company, 10 West Music, has signed over 200 composers from around the world - many of which are TAXI members, and the library is now sub-published in over 20 countries. The music that he has written as well as discovered from the many talented composers and artists signed by 10 West has appeared in over 10,000 episodes of more than 1,000 different television shows and can be heard daily on reality TV, talk shows, game shows, documentaries, entertainment news, sports, etc. Chuck also does the music for international burlesque star and renowned fashion icon Dita Von Teese. He was also a long-time TAXI member for years who was among the first wave of members to selflessly share his knowledge and experience with newer members.
Brenton Hund’s musical journey began in the 1990s, singing and playing guitar, performing as many as 150 shows per year, sharing the stage with acts like the Charlie Daniels Band and playing clubs from CBGB in NYC to the Barns of Wolf Trap in DC to Smith's Olde Bar in Atlanta. He later moved into music law and now leads the Atlanta-based Music Group at WarnerMedia, focusing on HBO, TNT, TBS, Turner Sports, CNN, HLN, Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, truTV, and a variety of foreign networks and digital platforms. He serves as Assistant General Counsel and handles negotiation, dealmaking, and advising clients on legal and business risk from concerts to fair use. He works regularly with major labels, major publishers, top level performing rights organizations, and household name artists. Brenton is also the host of the “Brenton Hund Podcast,” a program that is part master class and part long-form interview, where he talks to movers and shakers he’s met in his three decades in the music industry, including TAXI’s own Michael Laskow.
Kali J is an LA-based songwriter/top liner passionately pursuing the world of sync and her artist career simultaneously. Her efforts have earned her placements with Coke, Pepsi, Google, Samsung, Verizon, Intel, Chase Bank, Bumble, Bose, Best Buy, Nintendo, Nestle, Hyundai, Rite Aid, Glade, Volkswagen, United Healthcare, Facebook, Famous Footwear, Maybelline, Degree, TikTok, Clorox, Coors, Pizza Hut, Target, Nordstrom, Peloton, and more. In addition to writing music for some of her favorite brands, Kali J also works closely with several DJs in Brazil, (Liu, Dang3r, and PYNNO). Together, their collaborations have amassed millions of streams, which led to several of their songs being performed at Brazil’s Lollapalooza in 2018 and 2019. Whether writing, recording, or bouncing back and forth between LA and Atlanta, Kali J is always on the lookout for new and exciting brand collaborations and artist features. New music coming soon!
Erin M. Jacobson is an internationally recognized attorney, experienced deal negotiator, and a seasoned advisor of intellectual property rights who protects musicians, songwriters, music publishers, and a wide variety of other music professionals. Ms. Jacobson’s clients include Grammy and Emmy Award winners, legacy artists and catalogues, heirs and estates, and independent artists and companies. Ms. Jacobson regularly handles all types of agreements within the music industry, with an emphasis on music publishing, licensing, and catalogue acquisitions. In addition, she is one of the leading attorneys on copyright recapture and termination issues. Ms. Jacobson has been named as one of the “Top Music Lawyers” by Billboard, as well as a Super Lawyers Rising Star and one of the Top Women Attorneys in Southern California. In addition, Ms. Jacobson is a frequent author and speaker, and has been featured in publications including Billboard and Forbes, and on networks including ABC and the BBC. Ms. Jacobson is the author of the book, Don’t Get Screwed! How to Protect Yourself as an Independent Musician. She also founded and owns Indie Artist Resource, the independent musician’s resource for legal and business protection.
For nearly ten years, Marc Jovani has been working at the highest level of film, providing music for many major studios such as Lionsgate, Syfy, FOX, and most recently NETFLIX and AMAZON STUDIOS. He has also composed music for television shows and movies distributed on leading, nationally broadcasted television channels, including Lifetime (USA), TF1 (France), the Hallmark Channel (USA), Canale 5 (Italy), Antena 3 (Spain), HBO (USA) and more. His scores have been recorded with some of the best orchestras and have been conducted by the composer himself in renowned studios such as the historic Eastwood Scoring Stage at Warner Bros studios in Burbank, The Eastwood Scoring Stage in Hollywood, The Bridge Recording in Glendale, and the Village Studios in Los Angeles, among others. In addition to conventional musical composition, Marc specializes in contemporary hybrid scores. In combining modern electronic elements with the now-standard orchestral pallet, Marc creates a unique and identifiable sonic identity for every project. Besides the international recognition as a composer, Marc has been teaching for more than 15 years, from teaching young kids to Orchestration, Film Scoring, and Virtual Orchestration on Berklee Online. In 2017 he launched his own Online Musical Composition School called Cinematic Composing, where with a team they are teaching to more than 10000 students.
Author, educator, and music journalist Dan Kimpel contributes feature stories and interviews to a variety of media including magazines, podcasts, websites, television shows, and documentary films. Working with labels, publicists, marketing, and management companies, Dan is an established music industry resource for the creation of industry standard artist and composer bios. The author of six-best selling books about the music industry, over a five-year period, Dan conducted weeklong master classes on networking and personal presentation skills for artists, songwriters, and composers at Sir Paul McCartney's Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA) in the UK. Stateside, he lectures at colleges, universities, and conferences across the U.S., Canada and Japan. For twelve years, he taught as an award-winning member of the Musician's Institute faculty in Hollywood, CA. Since 2017, he has interviewed artists, songwriters, producers, composers, and executives for the Storyophonic music industry podcast.
Ty Knox is a music publishing executive with over 30 years’ experience in the music industry. A former rapper and producer who was affiliated with West Coast Hip Hop pioneers “LA Posse”, then went on to become A&R executive for two of the greatest music producers in American history, Grammy winning David Foster and Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds. After securing a production deal with Jive Records/Sony & joint venture publishing deal with Rondor/Universal in the early 2000’s, Ty purchased one of Los Angeles premier recording studios, Can Am Recorders, which housed Dr. Dre and his Aftermath team of producers. Ty is the Co-founder of MAS & Co., a music administration and licensing company who currently administers and represents a variety of artists & companies like NBA’s Damian Lillard P.K.A. “Dame Dolla”, 1501 Entertainment (Megan Thee Stallion, Ericka Banks), Brandy, Gatorade, and Victoria Secret.
Dean Krippaehne is a veteran songwriter, music producer and author. His music has been heard on hundreds of TV shows, films and new media around the world including: Oprah, Dancing with the Stars, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Scorpion, Duck Dynasty, Parenthood, The Today Show, Biography A&E, The Kardashians, Vampire Diaries, Lucky Dog, One Life to Live, T-Mobile, Amazon Connect and Muzak to name a few. He has also earned gold and platinum records as a songwriter and has been recorded by numerous diverse artists such as Stefanie Heinzmann (Universal), Quickie (MCA/Music Blitz), Sarah Burgess (PME), Mycle Wastman (The Voice), Sarah Lenore (AGT), and Scott Krippayne (SpringHill/Word). His decades of experience in the music industry, founding both Seattle's Tri-West Recording Studios and the boutique production music library, “All Screen Music” as well as co-founding the advertising company Spektrum and partnering in the Tech company NXT CHNL, have made him a sought-after creative advisor. In addition to being the author of the (Amazon Best Seller) books, Demystifying the Cue and Demystifying the Genre, as well as Write, Submit, Forget, Repeat, Dean has had his musical thoughts etched in many global publications.
Trevor Lewallen is the owner of Get It Done Music. With over 10 years of experience in the Production Music industry, Trevor has used his production experience and business knowledge to build and grow over 10 different catalogs.
Michael Lloyd was Vice President of A&R for MGM Records by the age of 20, and for more than 50 years has been producing hit records and soundtracks, earning more than 110 gold and platinum awards and selling over 170 million records. Some of the artists he’s worked with include, Barry Manilow, Mike Love and the Beach Boys, Sugar Ray, Lou Rawls, Sylvie Vartan, Shaun Cassidy, Belinda Carlisle, The Monkees, The Bellamy Brothers, The Osmonds, Stryper, Sammy Davis, Jr., Bill Medley, The Righteous Brothers, Debby Boone, Kimberley Locke, Air Supply, and a special charity selection with Frank Sinatra, just to name a few. He was the Music Supervisor for the film Dirty Dancing, wrote the Latin dance music for Patrick and Jennifer to dance to - and produced the Dirty Dancing soundtrack album. For many years there have been Dirty Dancing, the Musical companies touring all over the world. He’s done the scoring, music supervision, songwriting, song placement, and/or music producing for over 220 motion pictures, TV movies, TV specials and television series. His chart records span SEVEN decades, from the ’60s to the present.
Keith LuBrant is a songwriter/composer from New Jersey. He has performed at several music conferences and festivals, and also has had tracks used in more than 1,100 TV shows on 200+ television networks such as HBO, NBC, CBS, ABC, MTV, VH1 and many others. Keith also created music for Mattel Hot Wheels television campaigns, Philips Lighting, the movie Cats and Dogs 3 and several online commercials. He is also the creator and CEO of Composer Catalog, the popular software that helps musicians keep track of their music catalog.
Yvette Metoyer started her career in the film & TV music industry as an assistant and later a music coordinator on a number of critical darlings, including the Emmy-award winning AMC series, Breaking Bad, as well as the equally compelling follow-up, Better Call Saul, and zombie apocalypse ratings juggernaut, The Walking Dead. Yvette currently works as the music supervisor on the acclaimed courtroom drama series For Life - created by Hank Steinberg and executive produced by Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, and she has just started production on the third season of the smash hit Amazon original series, The Boys, executive produced by Eric Kripke.
Clay Mills is a 12-time ASCAP hit songwriter and two-time Grammy nominee with over 160 major artist cuts across multiple genres. Clay has penned #1 hits for Darius Rucker (“Don’t Think I Don’t Think About It”), Diamond Rio (“Beautiful Mess”), and Kimberley Locke (“Fall”). More hit singles soon followed by Darius Rucker with “History in the Making” and “I Got Nothin’.” His cuts include songs sung by Lady Antebellum, Little Big Town, Baby Face, Clay Walker, Reba McEntire, Easton Corbin, and Andy Griggs. Mills is a mentor to thousands of writers and artists world-wide at SongTown.com, the definitive online community for songwriters. Clay is co-author of The Songwriter’s Guide to Mastering Co-Writing and his new book #1 best-seller Mastering Melody Writing.
Nancy Moran is an independent singer/songwriter, international touring and recording artist, and a former member of the musical comedy troupe, The Four Bitchin’ Babes. She performs in coffeehouses, premier listening rooms and performing arts centers and has released four of her own solo albums. She’s also an experienced artist development coach, an energy healer focusing on abundance issues for musicians and other creatives, and co-founder of Azalea Music Group in Nashville, where she helps artists, writers, composers and other music-moguls-in-training get out of their own way so they can make a living with their music. She specializes in working with the not-quite-mainstream and “second-timers” coming back to music after a long hiatus.
Ronan Chris Murphy is a multi-genre record producer and engineer that works around the world. His diverse album credits include Gwar, King Crimson (several albums), Terry Bozzio, Steve Morse, Ulver, Pete Teo, Jamie Walters and hundreds more. His video game credits include Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood, Yoku’s Island Express and Mafia III. He recently mastered the score album for Jordan Peele’s hit film Get Out. He works in studios around the world as well as his own studio, Veneto West, just outside of Los Angeles. Ronan also pioneered many concepts in alternative recording education with his recording business, Recording Boot Camp, which offers workshops and consulting around the globe.
Jacob Nathan is head of A&R for Fervor Records. He has lived and worked in Los Angeles for over 10 years, working across various sync-related roles. At Fervor Records, Jacob works tirelessly to pursue leads and chase down great songs, by great artists, to add to Fervor's extensive catalogue of vintage music. As a Music Supervisor, his credits include films such as No Man of God, Flower and Archenemy. In addition to his Supervision work, he has served as a consultant on the Halloween franchise for Blumhouse Productions, and to both established and up-and-coming artists and labels.
Laurel Ostrander is a television editor with over a decade of experience in unscripted entertainment. Her most recent credits include Rhythm+Flow, Wipeout, RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, and Married at First Sight. She has created content for networks including Netflix, Disney+, Paramount+, Fox, CBS, MTV, and many more. From family-oriented docufollows to horror-themed game shows, she uses music as a tool to create compelling and entertaining stories.
Frank Palazzolo has worked on over 1,000 episodes of television during his 15 year career as a music supervisor. A start in the Universal Pictures Film Music department primed him for a successful collaboration alongside former KCRW DJ and Emmy-nominated music supervisor Liza Richardson. While at Mad Doll Music, he co-music supervised Locke & Key (Netflix), American Gods (STARZ), The Path (Hulu), About a Boy (NBC), The Leftovers (HBO), The Morning Show (Apple+), and Spenser Confidential (Netflix), among others. He’s currently working on Netflix’s In the Land of Make Believe, The Weekend Away, and season three of Locke & Key.
In his spare time, Frank is one half of the production duo dirty Monster, an alternative rock/electronic band who has released two full length studio albums and two EPs.
From the ‘90s to the early 2000s, John Pearson toured worldwide with many chart-topping country artists such as Billy Dean, Mel McDaniel, John Berry, Deana Carter, Suzy Bogguss and Sherrie Austin as both bass player and background vocalist. He’s played the Grand Ole Opry dozens of times and even played bass for Freddy Fender on a live TV appearance. In 1997 he received a Grammy for his bass playing on the compilation, A Country Salute to Gospel. John is also a multi-instrumentalist who collaborates with top-tier vocalists from around the world to create emotive songs for artists and Film/TV usage. He writes and produces male and female vocal Indie Rock & Pop, Neo Folk & Singer-Songwriter. His recent TV placements include Diary of a Future President, Netflix’s Outer Banks, ABC’s The Rookie and many placements on CBS’s The Young and the Restless. His recent national ad placements include FedEx and Cricket Wireless. He has also had many vocal and instrumental placements on television shows and in commercials in Europe and Asia.
Craig Pilo has a busy session schedule as both a drummer and a producer/composer. In addition to several major touring credits (Frankie Valli, Jefferson Starship, Edgar Winter, Player), Craig’s drumming has been featured in Dirty Dancing: Havana Nights, Basic, Sabrina the Teenage Witch, Boston Legal, and Ally McBeal. In 2018 he served as the Music Supervisor for Double Dare Live (touring show) and was responsible for selecting the music for the show, editing the audio, and negotiating direct licenses with several Los Angeles-based music libraries. As a producer/composer, his music has been featured in hundreds of TV shows. Some recent credits include: Keeping up with the Kardashians, Catfish, MTV’s The Challenge, Project Runway, RuPaul’s Drag Race and Mama June.
Randon Purcell is a full time composer and sound designer. Having composed for several top tier publishers around the world, he now works exclusively for Brand X Music, composing trailer and production music as well as creating custom sound design content. He has enjoyed placements in various television shows and networks around the world as well as some movie and video game advertising campaigns, including World of Warcraft, Call of Duty, Godzilla vs. Kong, and Separation. When he is not composing, he is creating unique sounds and building custom Kontakt instruments for his company, Fallout Music Group.
Award-Winning Music Supervisor Mary Ramos has helped create the musical identity for over 100 films in nearly 30 years. She’s helped to shape the music for blockbuster features, award-winning independents, passionate documentaries, and episodic television. She’s worked on Grammy-nominated soundtracks and won two Guild of Music Supervisors Awards for Django Unchained and The Hateful Eight. And while she might be best known for her work with Quentin Tarantino, what makes Mary Ramos fascinating to us is the wide range of projects she’s worked on, including Happy Gilmore, Bride of Chucky, South Park: Chef-Aid, Kill Bill (1&2), Mrs. America (Emmy nominated score), Little Fires Everywhere (Emmy nominated score), Wu-Tang: An American Saga (Season 2), Wasteland 3 (video game) Stillwater, and many, many more.
Dennis Sands was born and raised in Los Angeles, Calif., and graduated from the University of Southern California in 1969 with a B.S. degree in Psychology. He started work in music and film at MGM Recording Studios in 1971, where the legendary Ed Greene was Chief Engineer). A few years later, in 1977, he became co-owner of Group IV Recording Studio. Sands has recorded and mixed numerous jazz albums for Norman Granz, including artists Ella Fitzgerald, Count Basie, Sarah Vaughn, Joe Pass, and Oscar Peterson. He also recorded and mixed music for hundreds of episodic television shows including Hill Street Blues, Dallas and Chips, along with numerous television variety shows including Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme (Emmy Award for best sound), Liza Minelli, Carol Burnett, and many more. His film work at Group IV included On Golden Pond, Tootsie, Romancing the Stone, Back to the Future, and others. Dennis has recorded and mixed more than 300 film scores, including Spiderman, Forrest Gump, Avengers – End Game (largest box office sales in history). He has four Academy Award Nominations.
Paul Taylor has almost 30 years of experience composing, orchestrating, and conducting in the field of Film/TV, Video Games, and trailers. Recent and all time favorites are orchestrating the video game scores for the Fallout series, Lord of the Rings series, the Syberia series, Star Wars: The Old Republic, Avatar, Fantasia;Music Evolved, the Dead Space series, and the upcoming Bethesda flagship game Starfield. Another Fantasia highlight was an orchestration of Jimi Hendrix’s Fire, with legendary producer Eddie Kramer (Jimi Hendrix, The Beatles). Paul has also worked with live orchestras all over the world including the Video Games Live concerts, and has conducted session orchestras in Los Angeles, Seattle, San Francisco, Nashville, Budapest, and London. Recent projects include Heavyocity’s acclaimed brass and woodwind sample libraries, FORZO and VENTO, as well as orchestrating the video game scores for the latest installment of The Elder Scrolls franchise, The Outlast Trials, Outriders, Pub G mobile, Bandai Namco’s JumpForce, and Capcom’s Monster Hunters World. Trailer placements include Knives Out, A Christmas Carol, and The Shape of Water. TV/Film work include 100s of library cues, a full length feature, commercials for Beats and the US Marines, and Academy Award Winning short film “West Bank Story.”
While barely out of college, Andrea Torchia began working in A&R, promotion and publicity at Chrysalis/EMI. As Creative Manager at Rondor Music Publishing, she represented contemporary and classic catalogs including the iconic songs of Gerry Goffin and Carole King. As Senior Creative Director of Zomba Music Publishing, she placed songs, connected writers and artists, and facilitated a roster with Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys, Macy Gray, and Justin Timberlake. At Universal Music Publishing, named Senior Director of Creative Services, she formulated relationships for Ron “Neff-U” Feemster, Harvey Mason Jr., and Lamont Dozier among others, while attaining covers for the company’s extensive repertoire. Her valuable industry experience led to her appointment as Vice President, A&R for TAXI Music, where Andrea achieved multiple label, film television and commercial placements for the company’s songwriters. Tapped as Vice President, Creative, with Razor & Tie Music Publishing, she worked the company’s multiple format catalogs, while guiding creative input and fostering partnerships both domestically and internationally. Two long-term consulting endeavors – with pop powerhouse Rock Mafia Recordings, and 1111/Universal Music Publishing, a co-venture with 16- time Grammy winner David Foster, preceded her tenure as VP Creative with the U.S. division of the Japanese company Avex. Andrea expedited a diverse roster ranging from the legendary Burt Bacharach to her signee, hit songwriter-producer Tommy Brown, whose number one Billboard debuts included “Thank U Next” and “7 Rings” for Ariana Grande, plus songs and productions for Juice Wrld, Meghan Trainor and many others. It was at Avex that Andrea signed The Attire, sparking their transformation into a modern pop duo. Post Avex, she continued the artist development process as co-founder and Senior VP, Creative at Base Station Media.
A classically trained musician, Matthew C. Vander Boegh is a full-time composer for film and television. Looked up to as an industry heavyweight, Matt’s music is in high demand and plays somewhere on TV, somewhere in the world, every hour of every day. In his 11 years of making music for TV, Matt has amassed a staggering 15,000+ placements on over 600 TV programs, including various major sporting events, Hollywood movies, high-profile reality TV shows, soap operas, commercials, and daytime & evening talk shows. He has nearly 4,000 cues and hundreds of full-length songs signed to oodles of high-end and boutique music libraries. He is a regular presence at multiple music conferences, and was honored to be a speaker and mentor at the TAXI “Road Rally” in 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2015, as well as a panelist at the Ontario International Film Festival in 2020.
As CEO of Disc Makers, Tony van Veen has spent over 30 years helping independent artists release, distribute, and promote their own music globally. In this era of music streaming, Disc Makers is the world’s largest provider of physical media – CDs, vinyl records, and USBs – to help emerging artists monetize their music. Tony negotiated the 2008 acquisition of CD Baby, the largest independent digital distributor in the world, and its eventual sale in 2019. Tony has created hundreds of his Indie Music Minute videos with artist advice on YouTube while continuing to run Disc Makers. The company is also a leader in independent book publishing through its BookBaby division.
Pat Weaver is a veteran music industry professional with expertise in music-for-picture production, audio branding, production music libraries and entertainment marketing. In February of 2019, Weaver joined Warner Chappell Production Music as head of production operating out of Los Angeles, CA and overseeing production teams in Nashville, TN and Los Angeles, CA. She is responsible for the custom music division as well as curating content for the catalog’s 165K+ unique music tracks via original music commissions, partnerships and acquisitions. Previously, she served as creative director for Discovery, Inc.’s Global Music Services where she oversaw a team of music supervisors sourcing music for The Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, TLC and I.D. At Discovery, Weaver was responsible for the curation of a large internal production music library, Discovery MusicSource, consisting of over 130k tracks. Her training ground for original music production included long-term stints at some of L.A.’s top music production houses including Emoto (formerly Admusic) and Musikvergnuegen where she oversaw custom music for award-winning commercials for Nike, Microsoft, Sprite, the Gap, Lexus and Mastercard. Later, as VP New Channels for Elias Arts, she was instrumental in the launch of their licensing division, Elias Plays, which eventually sold to Universal. Having begun her music career as an Editorial Assistant at Rolling Stone Magazine, Weaver became heavily involved in marketing and public relations early on, heading up the West Coast Press and Publicity division of Capitol Records where she helped develop the public profiles of such diverse artists as Tina Turner, Duran Duran, Thomas Dolby and Iron Maiden. She served as Manager of Public Relations for Turner Network Television during its first-year launch and, later, Director of Marketing for Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab -- a revered audiophile label.
Colin Arthur Wiebe is a singer/songwriter/entrepreneur with 6 nationally released CD’s. Colin was the lead singer, keyboardist, and guitarist for Canadian rock legend, Randy Bachman of The Guess Who and Bachman-Turner Overdrive, for almost two decades. Colin is currently the CEO of Sessionwire.com an all-in-one platform for remote recording. Colin is passionate about helping musical artists and entrepreneurs and lives in the Vancouver area with his wife and two beautiful daughters.