Welcome to Episode 66 of The Business Lockdown. 

We are today joined by a true creative at a time when the creative industry has been somewhat destroyed by lockdown. Kerri Layton is a jazz singer, and the founder and director of Dixiebird records, a collective of musicians focusing on jazz, organising events and live music. 

Coronavirus means the effective end of live events and weddings This could not come at a worse time for Kerri, as she celebrated her first part of profit – she tells us how she lost ‘every single penny’, and had to take time out to regroup mentally and come back stronger than ever.

We discuss how COVID has affected the creative and events industry and Kerri’s business, and how a year of extreme adversity ended with the singer unable to sing, or even talk. What happens when you are denied your greatest passion in life? For Kerri it meant she was mute over Christmas and had to use other methods to communicate.

Kerri looks to the future to maintain hope: once we’re over the coronavirus pandemic, it’s back to the roaring twenties and Kerri tells us that human interaction will feel better than ever. We can come back from this, but only by mutual support and gratitude; it is through the power of one another that we can become stronger together.

View Kerri’s platforms below: 

Winter Wedding Package link  - https://www.dixiebirdrecords.com/winter-wedding-micro-offer-1

Dixiebird Records main website link - https://www.dixiebirdrecords.com/

Facebook - Dixiebird Recordse

Insta - https://www.instagram.com/dixiebirdrecords/

Kerri Layton Insta - https://www.instagram.com/kerrilaytonmusic/

Kerri Layton Facebook - Kerri Layton

Spotify -  https://open.spotify.com/album/2sU4AA4YZTVgaBbvBoLw6x

YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4WS8Xk1Dhbdd8t3RbIhvAQ?

Soundcloud – https://soundcloud.com/kerri-layton