Sony Music Publishing Italy
Lectures, 1 on 1 feedback, briefings from the whole Sony Music Publishing Italy team
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.
Main music collaborations
Céline Dion , David Guetta, Taylor Swift, Tim McGraw, Wyclef Jean, Soprano , TAL, Zaho, Grand Corps Malade, Hippocampe fou, Ralph Beaubrun, Olivier Dion...
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 he’s currently an author and producer in 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.
Federico Cirillo
Label director Island Records Italy
BALTIMORA
Edoardo Spinsante aka 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.
BMG Rights Management
Meet and get classes from A&R's from the whole European BMG team
Ramon Ginton
Musician, Producer : Drake, Bizzey, Ronnie Flex...
Vincenzo Colella
Vincenzo Colella è un autore Sony Music Publishing, ha scritto canzoni per Marco Mengoni, Annalisa, Rosa Chemical, Giorgia, Gianna Nannini, Gaia, Luca Carboni e molti altri. ?Ha anche un progetto artistico, LACRAY, con Sony Music Italy.
Erroll Antonie
Music Publisher - Head of A&R BMG Benelux
Chiara Gallerani
Chiara Gallerani is Italia Music Export’s project manager.
Before working at Italia Music Export she was head of marketing and promotion at Indipendente Concerti (Live Nation Italia) which organized, among many concerts, I-Days Festival. From 2015 to 2016 she was marketing and promotion assistant at Vivo Concerti, a music promoter company in Milan. From 2015 to 2022, she worked also as artists liaison manager at MI AMI Festival, the popular Italian independent music festival held in Milan every year in spring.
From 2020 to 2022 she was the communication manager for EMEE, European Music Exporters Exchange, the network gathering all music export offices in Europe.
Chiara has a bachelor’s degree in Foreign Languages and Literature and a master’s degree in Design and Production of Cultural and Arts events.
Iacopo Sinigaglia
Iacopo Sinigaglia (1990) , aka BRAIL ? ?, is a composer, music producer and sound designer. He studied sound engineering and music technology at Saint Louis College of Music and graduated in "Electronic Music" and "Audiovisual Composition" at the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone.
Some of his works have been selected and screened within the most prestigious festivals around the world such as the Oscar ceremony, Venice Film Festival, David di Donatello awards, The International Computer Music Conference and the New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival.
He works mainly as a music producer and has collaborated with several Italian artists including Aiello, Ariete, Fulminacci, Galeffi, Giorgia, Giuse The Lizia, Madame, Mannarino, Motta, Nuvolari and Psicologi.
In 2021, he curated the production and orchestral arrangement of the song "Ora" by artist Aiello, also conducting the orchestra during Sanremo. He returns in 2023 to the Italian Song Festival with the song "Il bene nel male" by Madame.
In 2022 he works as music producer for X Factor Italy in the Fedez’s team.
He is an author and composer for Sugar Music, a historic label founded in Milan in 1989 by Caterina Caselli.
Kahina Khimoune
Coming from a family of artists, Kahina had the chance, from an early age, to be immersed in this privileged environment. At the age of 8, she began the piano at the National Regional Conservatory of her city and, throughout her schooling, joined classes offering students the opportunity to follow school programs as well as reinforced artistic education, the expected extension of which is the Professional orientation.
With a General Literary Baccalaureate in hand, she studied Modern Literature at the Sorbonne Nouvelle in Paris, but she quickly understood that she felt more at ease and above all more useful, behind the scenes than on the front of the stage.
Already perceiving, within his family, the problems with which artists and actors in the cultural sector are confronted in administrative and relational management; these difficulties that hinder them in the accomplishment of their artistic and creative work, the idea of ??offering services to artists is gaining ground.
She then joined a renowned school of communication and press officer in Paris, after which she worked for 5 years at Radio FG as a relationship manager with international resident artists.
After a two-year stay in London, in 2009 she joined David Guetta's team, where she is the administrator of many companies.
At the same time, she takes care of organizing all his professional and artistic meetings, organizes writing workshops, accompanies him in the studio, thus assisting in the genesis of many worldwide successes.
Kahina acquired international expertise in the development of artistic careers, in the management of production and publishing companies specializing in music.
During her 12 years spent alongside David Guetta and through her many encounters, she will find that the musical field is not the only one concerned but that other sectors are just as affected by the difficulty of collaborating with reliable people. , serious and trustworthy.
Aware that digital has considerably transformed culture and in particular music with streaming, and fully determined to help all these artists find themselves in the jungle of these new codes, both administrative and digital, in 2021, she decided to create Kahin@ gency a structure in harmony with an evolving and ambitious context, but responsible, at the height of its convictions.
Davide Ruffini
Mixing engineer : The Voice, Soul & Noamle, Supa Dupa, NAVY, Nelson Dialect, Leelo, MAJAN, Kilian & Jo
Coco Bans
American Iowa-born, Paris-based singer-songwriter Coco Bans, aka Allyson Ezell, has been carving out an impressive path with her epic and tender alt-pop since her 2019 debut EP, Fantasy & Parables, garnering early support from MTV, Earmilk and The Line of Best Fit. Rolling Stone named her a live artist to watch and she has since opened sold-out shows for Mike Shinoda (Linkin Park) and Brittany Howard (Alabama Shakes). Follow-up single “Pray” was synced in Grey’s Anatomy, in parallel with major editorial playlists and European radio play. Signed with Warner Chappell Music Publishing, Coco Bans has already written for artists such as Woodkid, Lil Wayne, Kiddy Smile and French star GIMS. Her debut LP Chronicles of an Altered Life, co-written with Grammy-winner Hue Strother and K Major (Playboi Carti, Future) and produced by Coco Bans and London-based producer Jo Pereira, is expected in 2022.
Allyson Ezell is a musician and songwriter in total command of her powers. Think Annie Lennox and Shakespeares Sister meets St Vincent and Paloma Faith, but in a 21st century blend of optimism, nostalgia and vintage beats.
Malik Berrabah
Malik Berrabah is owner of Wisseloord and founder of the Wisseloord Academy. His track record as a songwriter, composer, arranger and producer is rich of countless national and international records in various genres. He has contributed to the production of numerous albums, singles, television programs, etc., and regularly advises the Majors in a neutral way on the level of new musical projects in development. Malik is also Adviseur of the Amsterdam Fonds Voor de Kunst the organisation providing state grants to the main cultural projects of the dutch capital. His love for sharing with growing talents leads him, when his schedule allows, to participate as a jury for international conservatory exams.
Since the beginning of his career 25 years ago, Malik has decided to do all his musical work under various pseudonyms in order to keep his career detached from any stylistic labels, to keep his creative freedom and to stay away from the ego games of the music industry.
Noah Smits
Noah is one of the most recognized music marketeers and data analysts of The Netherlands. Working as consultant for numerous artists and labels, Noah is one of the figures of the field that cannot be missed out.
Reaubeau
ReauBeau’s sonic journey started at the very roots of his present future bass undertakings. Due to a strong love for hiphop during his formative years, his passion spurred into the restless fiddling and fine-tuning art of conveying finer (and often ineffable) emotions through the craft of composition. His sound has emerged into a versatile blend of (future)bass and trap with a touch of euphoria.
ReauBeau's funky, hiphop influenced productions are always spot on. With shows at festivals such as Tomorrowland, Amsterdam Dance Event, Aalborg Festival, SXSW and Distortion Festival, his tracks have been supported by radio stations worldwide, including BBC Radio1 & 1XTRA (' ignition mix ', GB), SLAM FM (NL), KISS FM (DE), Diplo's Revolution Channel, Hardwell on Air and more.
Eventually evolving his music asperations into two new dimensions called CASUAL (Pop, Funk, Soul ) and DOWORK (Hiphop instrumentals ) His music has landed syncs with America’s Got Talent , Mercedes ,Lincoln,JBL, Adidas,Victoria’s Secret and he has composed for major game trailers like FIFA 20 / Need For Speed HEAT and Apex Legends.
Daimy Lotus
Since early childhood singer and songwriter Daimy Lotus (24) has been involved with music, singing and dance. Even at the tender age of five she could be found performing at the yearly cultural market in her home town. In 2009 she decided to pursue a career in songwriting as well.
In May 2015 she released her debut EP named ’15’ including her first single Saturday Girl and second single Cannonball which she got acknowledged for by Dutch radiostation 3FM by naming her Serious Talent. Other radiostations followed along.? For this EP she worked closely together with Martijn Konijnenburg (aka Tienus). She played at many festivals and did a Dutch tour through twenty different cities.
Now her focus is on songwriting. After writing songs and performing them for her solo project for several years, she decided to focus on writing for other artists as well. Therefore she has written with a variety of songwriters, producers and artists like Filous, Janieck, Joshua Hardy, Kameron Grae, Marlon Roudette, PollyAnna, Roxanne Emery and TV Noise. Nevertheless she is working on solo material too which will be released in the course of 2020. In the meantime, there will be songs getting released in which Daimy plays a part by either singing the song, writing it or both.
Brynja Mary
Brynja Mary is a Singer and a Songwriter and a performing artist, She’s been singing and dancing since She can remember and started writing songs from a very Young age. There’s nothing She loves more than writing personal storytelling songs and getting up on stage to perform them.
When She was 13 She was in a Danish tv show called “En sang Fra hjertet” and recorded a song with one of Denmark’s biggest producers, and at 14 She signed her first publishing deal. Then when She just turned 16 She competed in the Icelandic national final for the Eurovision Song Contest 2020 with an original song that She had written at the age of 14.
She’s been working with people all over the world in Denmark, Iceland, Norway, Los Angeles, London, Canada, Spain and the Netherlands and in February 2021 She signed a record deal with Universal music group as a duo with her sister (sara Victoria) called EYJAA, their first single (Dont forget about me) charted as nr 3 on Denmarks airplay chart top 100 for over 16 weeks and it became the song of the week in Denmark and along with their second single (The Wrecking Crew) that got 4th place on the airplay chart top 100.
And their 3rd single (Ultraviolet) did also very well and ended up getting 3rd place on the Icelandic radio for most popular played songs of the month in April 2022.
She’s always loved performing and it’s one of her favorite things to do besides writing. She’s performed a lot, in LA and spain and on live television for the Eurovision Song Contest national final and performed support shows as her duo EYJAA and a few festivals in the summer of 2022, She also studied herself at the Wisseloord academy from 2020 - 2021 and after that She’s been studying professional dance and performing in Copenhagen and Los Angeles.
Nouri Avery
Noah Avery is a singer, song writer, producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He studied vocals at the Herman Brood Academy, and now writes for different artists. He thinks stories are the most important part of a song and the instrumental should be a perfect fit.
Noah has worked with artists such as: Wulf, De Hofnar, Miss Montreal, Thomas Nan, George Holliday, Collin Jax and Robbie Mendez.
Chrystelle Nammour
Artist, author, composer, Chrystelle graduated in Music Business from Berklee College of Music, and from Paris Dauphine PSL and specialized in the development strategy of artists. Marie-Madeleine from the musical "Jésus" by Pascal Obispo in 2018, she released a first album with her group Hushh in 2015 financed by Internet users on My Major Company (€100,000 collected in crowdfunding). She currently serves artists at the Guild of Music Artists, the artist services agency Kahin@gency, and Groover while working on her artist project.
Ever Mihigo
Producer, Topliner (Aya Nakamura, Oboy, Kimberose…)
Julien Cholewa
Directeur of LA PLACE HIP HOP and head programmeur of the festival PARIS HIPHOP