Backstage Pass

With only 25 years old, Marvin Stroeter is one of Germany's most famous filmmakers. He is the founder of the WEVAME, a media production company and video slug. But that's not it: Marvin is also a storywriter , fotographer and buddy for many national and international artists, mainly focussing on music videos.

Simon Pursehouse, Director of Music Services has been an integral part of Sentric Music Group since the company’s infancy overseeing the signing of Sentric’s first artist in 2006 to its now established community of over 150,000 songwriters. Previously at Sentric, Simon headed up the creative division, which under his supervision was nominated as Best Indie Publisher at the Music Week Sync awards for five years running. Here he has developed relationships with global media organisations, broadcasters and advertising agencies which has resulted in Sentric’s catalogue being placed globally in adverts, films, games, TV shows.

Origami aka "Philipp" is a 22 year old producer from Germany who started making beats when he was 16. More than 164.000 people follow him on YouTube. With 3 released albums and more than 3,4 million streams worldwide, his music career just began.

Emma Blackery is an English singer-songwriter, YouTuber, record producer, and author. She has released EPs, singles, and Vevo music videos since 2012. She has toured with Busted and founded her own RWG Records label. By 2015, Blackery's main YouTube channel had over one million subscribers. She performed and was a panelist at YouTube events (Summer in the City and VidCon) and has contributed twice to the YouTube Rewind video series.

Markus Immesberger is working for Sony Music, Germany. He has over 9 years experience in developing, implementing and managing domestic and international multi-territory marketing campaigns.

Joe Dolman is a singer, songwriter and musical director from Leamington, UK, featured by BBC Radio 1. He is not only an independent artist, but also helps other musicians promote their music career.

Olivia Jones lives in Manchester. Born in Kent. Not sure which side she'd choose if the North South divide actually happened.

Lauren Deakin Davies is a pop/indie record producer and songwriter who recently won the European Pro Sound award for Breakthrough Studio Engineer as well as (for the second year in a row) NMG’s Producer of the Year award. She is currently working for Gary Barlow in his private studio. She has also been added to the top 100 alt music power list for 2018 and 2019. At 24, Lauren has released 2 award-winning albums.

When it comes to music production, there are several mistakes one can make - starting with the wrong gear, mindset or chorus. But which knobs have to be turned to start making music for a living?

Hailing from Leeds, England, Hannah Trigwell is an accomplished singer-songwriter, YouTuber, guitarist, musician influencer and now also the host of Thomann’s new podcast, Backstage Pass.