Why Cleo Sylvestre? Cleo is a renowned film and TV Actor, and a Blues singer who continues to work with ’60’s icons including Donovan. Cleo is passionate about race and gender equality as a black female singer in a business still working towards inclusion for all. “It’s never too late!” Having worked with The Rolling Stones in the 60’s, and had an invitation to record with Brian Jones of the Stones, Cleo Sylvestre embarked on a successful career as an actor. Cleo has appeared in many epic films including Poor Cow and in many TV series as well as on stage. Just before the age of 70 years, Cleo decided to go back to her music career setting up ‘Honey B Mama & Friends’. In this episode, Cleo shares some delightful stories about her friendship with The Rolling Stones and how she feels as a black woman in the industry and the recent #BlackLivesMatter campaign: Having a passion about your music is essential. Cleo says “something happens to me when I hear the blues. I went beserk when I heard boogie woogie prayer”. Does your music make your listeners feel like this? Find out how to get your name into print. Cleo has featured in Bolder, a book about inspirational older women and in ‘Gaspard the Fox’, a children’s book by broadcaster and author Zeb Soanes Hear great exclusive stories about Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones, and Cleo’s recent recordings with Brian’s son Joolz and the legendary Donovan Cleo explores what it is like as a black blues singer in a white male dominated genre and the lack of black blues singers Hear more about the blues at legendary ‘The Eel Pie Club’ and the ‘Blues Kitchen’ “If you’re passionate about it - keep going! Don’t be defeated”. Keeping mentally and physically fit by . . . (- listen to find out) Useful links to click for even more: https://www.facebook.com/HoneyBMama https://www.instagram.com/honeybmamafriends/ http://eelpieclub.com https://www.simonandschuster.co.uk/books/Bolder/Carl-Honore/9781471164354 https://www.gaspardthefox.com Please let us know your thoughts about this podcast at: [email protected] Thank you

Why Rachel Sellick?

Rachel founded Scarlet River Management, a full-service artist management company specialising in Modern Country Music. Rachel’s artists have regularly achieved top ten positions in Country Music Charts including the coveted number One slot!

Scarlet River Management provides a full suite of services to benefit artists from the UK and abroad which include artist management, getting bookings, promotions and social media support.

In this episode Rachel talks about her journey as an artist manager and what great artist support is, including:

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https://www.scarletrivermanagement.com

https://www.instagram.com/scarletrivermanagement/

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Why Rachael?

Rachael ran some of the seminal black music nights of the early 90’s as well as presenting on youth Radio & TV.

She went on to launch the MTV Lick Parties and specialise in urban marketing working for Universal and Sony before joining Def Jam UK as General Manager. She later managed Ladies First (Polydor) and Aaron Soul (Def Jam).

Rachael is now the owner and CEO of ILUVLIVE, a not for profit live music and artist development platform supported by Arts Council England.

ILUVLIVE’s sister company ILUVMGNT looks after Izzy Bizu (Sony), Emmavie, Anjelo Disons, Damn Shaq and Vibbar.

In this episode Rachael tells you about:

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ILUVLIVE: https://www.iluvlive.co.uk

Insta: https://www.instagram.com/rachael_iluvlive/

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Why Liza Buddie?

Liza Buddie is founder of Chaos and Bedlam, a company that specialises in marketing, A&R, Self Releasing Music and Creative Campaign Strategies. Liza is an expert Funding & Business Investment Application adviser and writer as well as a Board member of the Music Managers Forum (MMF).

In this episode with Liza Buddie, you will hear how to be successful in getting funding for your career in music and also how to market yourself or your band for little or no cost.

Liza will talk about:

After we stopped recording, Liza mentioned using SubmitHub as a great way to get on playlists

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[email protected]https://chaosandbedlammanagement.wordpress.com/about/https://www.helpmusicians.org.uk

https://themmf.net

https://www.submithub.com

https://qjam.com/artists

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Why Stephen Budd?

Stephen represents some of the most successful and influential producers, songwriters from Europe and the USA, is a long term artist manager and has co-founded festivals in India, Korea and the UK.

Most recently Stephen co-founded the Passport Back to Our Roots as part of the #saveourvenues campaign (https://www.passportbacktoourroots.org), where major artists including Elbow, Pet Shop Boys, Metronomy, Passenger play in small venues, raising money to save grassroots venues.

Stephen has also served as Co-Chairman of the Music Managers Forum (MMF).

In this episode with Stephen, listen to how he reflects on his journey in the music industry working with artists such as Motorhead, The Magic Numbers, Damon Albarn and Gang Of Four; as well as co-founding events such as Damon Albarn’s Africa Express and War Child’s “Passport Back to the Bars” shows (which later became Brits Week):

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Twitter: @stephenbudd

https://www.record-producers.com

http://www.africaexpress.co.uk

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