Stig Rästa
Stig Rästa has been in the music industry for over 20 years, establishing him as one of the top songwriters in Estonia. He has his own solo project and is also a part of electronic music duo ‘Kisma.’ Their first single ‘We Are’ was released in 2017 by No Copyright Sounds and has been played over 7 million times on Spotify and Youtube.
In 2015, he represented Estonia in the Eurovision Song Contest with his song ‘Goodbye to Yesterday’, which placed 7th in the final. The song has over 12 million streams on Spotify and won ‘Song of the Year’ award at Estonian Music Awards in 2016. Stig has written for many award-winning artists such as Victor Crone, Joakim Lundell, Elina Born, Traffic and Karl-Erik Taukar.
Stig co-wrote ‘Storm’ by Victor Crone, which represented Estonia in Eurovision in 2019 and kick-started Victor’s further career.The song was played over 15,000 times on Swedish radios. Stig was also the writer for ESC 2016 Estonian entry song ‘Play’ by Jüri Pootsmann.
Karl Killing
Karl Killing, at mere 22 years old, has immensely proven himself over the past few years in the Estonian music scene. He is actively working with many loved Estonian hip-hop and rap artists such as 5MIINUST, säm, Pluuto, nublu and villemdrillem.
Two years ago, Karl participated in the Eesti Laul contest (Estonia’s national selection for the Eurovision Song Contest) where he placed 7th with his song ‘Kiss Me’. His solo project kick-started in 2020 when he released his debut single ‘High Heels’, which came out with Canadian record label found/red. This year was massive for Karl as he signed to Warner Music Baltics, released a video single ‘powerless’ with them, and intends to release his first album in 2022. While his solo project is on the softer, pop side, for his producing, he definitely has a weakness for hip-hop.
Giorgio Spedicato
Giorgio Spedicato, born in 1992, is an Italian musician and music producer. He’s been making music since 2012 with the moniker Machweo and is currently an author and producer within Sony Music Publishing Italy.
In the last ten years he released music for many independent Italian and American music labels (Lefse, Hyperjazz, Maciste among others) and he played more than 200 live shows in Italy and other European countries. In 2019 he played at Eurosonic Nooderslag and in the summer of the same year he imagined and conducted a radical impro concert with a band composed by James Holden, Emma Jean Thackray, Populous, Any Other, Bienoise and many more.
Giorgio signed with Sony Music Publishing in 2020 and he devoted his music career to writing and producing music as an author since then. He won a golden album in 2021 as the author for Cuore Amaro, which is the song sung by Gaia at Sanremo Music Festival in 2021.
Baltimora
Edoardo Spinsante, also known as BALTIMORA, is a singer, songwriter and producer from Italy. At 14 years old he started recording local artists in his house which later became a reference studio for his home town, Ancona. After school he moved to Milan and signed a publishing and recording deal with Sony Music Italy, also due to him winning the 15th edition of X Factor Italy. Since then he’s been working in the industry with various artists, published his own EP, dubbed a Pixar movie and more.
Kristine Kebbinau
Kristine Kebbinau has been active in the Estonian music industry for ten years, taking on roles from label management, marketing & PR to organizing festivals and events. She was the organizer of the Estonian Music Industry Awards (2021) and developed the youth music scene via Estonian Youth Band Award (Noortebändi konkurss). Kristine has also been involved with festivals like Tallinn Music Week, Black Nights Film Festival (seminars Music Meets Film) and Intsikurmu Festival, where she was the CEO.
Since Kristine has taken on many different roles in the industry – being an artist, working with artists, organizing events and done strategical marketing and PR, she really understands the different parts of the sector. Nowadays Kristine mainly focuses on bringing the Baltic Music Markets together to broaden the opportunities for the talents of the region.
Therry M-L
Therry M.L. is a French multiplatinum music producer, songwriter and artist. Discovered by David Guetta’s management team, Therry wrote some of the biggest urban pop hits of the last decade in France with his producer duet LNT. He is now embarking on a solo journey, working on his own artist project « Johsef » and using his A&R skills to help artists define their sound and vision. His main music collaborations are with Céline Dion, David Guetta, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Wyclef Jean, Soprano , TAL, Zaho, Grand Corps Malade, Hippocampe fou, Ralph Beaubrun, and Olivier Dion.
Erroll Antonie
Music Publisher – Head of A&R BMG Benelux
Shakil Bholasing
Live and Mix engineer: Ronnie Flex | Frenna | Jonna Fraser | Fresku | Winne