Our special guest for today is Ion Zanca, a violist and the principal founder of the Dallas String Quartet.

In October 2022, Zanca charted at #2 on the Classical Album and Classical Crossover Album Billboard Charts with DSQ's latest album, "Love Always." Under Zanca’s tutelage, The group has played for multiple sitting U.S. presidents, the NFL, the NBA, performed at the wedding of music legends Gwen Stefani and Blake Shelton, released a collaboration with The Piano Guys, charted on Billboard, and acquired over 50 million streams on Spotify.

As of November 2021, the group has more than 600 million streams on Pandora, 6.2 Million views on YouTube, and over 5.8 million listeners on Spotify.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Ion shared why he chose to go to the US rather than stay in Romania. He also explained why he used to hate the phrase “starving artist”.

Ion also has this concept of improvisation in music and the stacking of talents that we need to hear.

Another important takeaway is what Ion believes. He doesn't even care how good you are. If you come unprepared and you're on time, that’s a big X.

Things We Discussed

23ANDME DNA test -  a DNA test with the most comprehensive ancestry breakdown, personalized health insights, and more.

Fake book - a collection of lead sheets. These sheets will have the chord symbols, the basic melody, and notated chords/harmony, generally no more than one or two sheets of music per tune. A fake book could contain hundreds of such sheets, making it a very economical way to learn tunes or bring music to a gig.

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Tiamo De Vettori is the Founder of the Musicpreneur Academy. He is an acoustic-pop singer/songwriter and was recently named as "Singer/Songwriter of the Year" by LA Music Awards.

Tiamo has been featured on FOX, CBS, NBC and MSNBC. He performed live for over 100,000 people, and recently performed on stage at the Jimmy Kimmel Show.

He is also a motivational speaker who combines his on-stage charisma with his inspiring personal stories, original songs, and acoustic guitar to provide "Keynote Concerts".

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, we learn from Tiamo about how to be passionate in your music career and at the same time being open-minded to possibilities that there is a whole other way that they could be doing their music to avoid settling, compromising, and feeling that “that's just how it is”.

He also shares how he ventured into “keynote concerts” and the progression of how he’s telling the story in his concerts.

Things We Discussed

mindset coaching - It means specifically for musicians to move from or transcend being a struggling artist to being an entrepreneur, what I call a musicpreneur, to go from struggling artist mindset to you are a business owner that's making profit, that can scale, that can grow. And the more you scale and grow and profit, the more you can touch and inspire all these people you've been wanting to reach, like, the more freedom that you have to do it because you're no longer struggling, but maybe you're thriving.

Keynote concert - a concert with the combination of inspiring personal stories, original songs, and acoustic guitar

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Our guest for today, Derick Sebastian, is an accomplished international ukulele virtuoso. Derick’s critically acclaimed instrumental album, “From His Heart”, earned a Na Hoku Hanohano 2010 nomination.

Derick has shared the stage with singer/songwriter pop star Jason Mraz, the melodic Raining Jane, powerhouse Trombone Shorty, country star icons Thompson Square and Sara Evans, fellow ukulele ace Jake Shimabukuro and R&B sensations, Boyz II Men and Brian McKnight, and a highlighted private performance and ukulele lesson with Oprah Winfrey.

Along with his star-studded musical collaborations, Derick is a cultural practitioner teaching private ukulele LESSONS at a major island resort, Andaz Maui at Wailea.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Derick shares his goal to create different types of music in the ukulele genre - different types of elements and some approaches to arrangements.

Things We Discussed

Sync licensing - A license granting permission to synchronize a song with moving images on a screen - generally in television, film, or advertisements.

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Our special guest for today is Chris Greenwood A.K.A Manafest. He is a Canadian Christian rapper and rock artist from Pickering, Ontario, Canada. He has won multiple awards for the GMA Canada Covenant Awards, GMA Dove Awards, and has been nominated for multiple Juno Awards.  He is a billboard charting artist with over 1,000,000 monthly Spotify listeners.

Chris Greenwood launched Fanbase University which trains independent musicians to make it in the music industry, with an emphasis on not signing with a label.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Manifest shares how important coaching is and surrounding yourself with the A players.

He will also impart his knowledge on how to get the right course and what to look for in hiring a coach/mentor.

Things We Discussed

Spotify 5-Day Challenge - is Manafest’s EASY SYSTEM THAT GENERATED

1,000,000 MONTHLY LISTENERS ON SPOTIFY. You can join the challenge here.

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Our special guest is a vocal coach, studio owner, singer/songwriter and creator of the Singing / Straw™ & the S/S method which helps singers develop a healthier, stronger and more balanced voice.

She is the Founder and Lead Vocal Coach of Songbird Studios - a premier vocal coaching studio that offers singing lessons, voice lessons, vocal coaching, songwriting workshops, group classes, master classes, summer camps, and performance showcases in-person in San Francisco, California and online all over the world.

What You’ll Learn

Let us discover how The Singing / Straw™ is the next evolution in singing and how it changed Whitney Nichole’s life. She discusses how to use it in all of these more exciting, extreme ways of singing like belting and distortion.

Whitney shares how she came up with her dream product and how impactful and amazing this can be for your voice.

Whitney also shares some insights about retreats and conferences and how you're always going to get something out of it. She has this mindset that “I am going to learn so much and take so much from this, even if it's what I don't want to do.”

Things We Discussed

The Singing / Straw™ - The first of its kind: a patented, reusable, sustainable and customizable straw phonation tool set for singers, speakers, and vocalists that promotes vocal efficiency and reduces tension.

Straw phonation - Singing through a straw is a powerful “semi-occluded vocal tract”(SOVT) exercise, which means that as you vocalize, the air coming out of your mouth is partially blocked. This creates a resistance in the vocal tract, which sends energy back to the vocal folds and helps them vibrate more efficiently.

SOVT - stands for Semi Occluded Vocal Tract. A fancy way to say - the mouth is partially closed.

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Our special guest today is Isabella Bedoya, founder of Fame Hackers, an artist accelerator that helps independent artists establish profitable and sustainable music careers so they can get paid doing what they love. As a former A&R for a label under Sony Music, and working for an award-winning social media marketing agency in the past, Isabella helps artists excel in the new music industry by using strategies that work in today’s social media.

Isabella has been invited to speak at the Musicians Institute, BoldTV, Ticker News, iHeartRadio, NBC, KCAA Radio, Beat The Clock Podcast, and published on Medium, Thrive Global, and many more!

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Isabella shares her story about how she went from being a private chef in Beverly Hills to coaching celebrities, influencers, and award-winning industry professionals and making them online sensations.

Things We Discussed

"A&R" - Artists and Repertoire - is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists (singers, instrumentalists, bands, and so on) and songwriters.

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Jason Lyle Black is an award-winning piano entertainer, published arranger and composer for the piano, having authored three bestselling piano books with the world’s largest music publisher, Hal Leonard.  His most popular book, Disney Medleys for Piano Solo, is an Amazon bestseller, with over 10,000+ copies sold nationwide.

Jason performed on the Ellen Degeneres show in Hollywood, where Ellen called him “Unbelievable!”

What You’ll Learn

Jason Lyle Black shares with us how he started in the cruise industry and some first-hand tips on how to have a career for life on stage. He also emphasized that a good rating is very important so you will always get rebooked by agencies.

In this episode, he also shares some performers whom he loves to watch and considered phenomenal performers.

Things We Discussed

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Aoife O'Leary,  Aoife (pronounced “EE’fa”) is a composer, producer, songwriter, singer and founder of PoppyMoth Productions - a one-stop music production company for music, film, TV, games and session services. Aoife created 3 songs for the movie, Code Name Banshee, starring Antonio Banderas and Jaime King, including Banshee, for the end credits.

She is also the female vocalist of the band Moth Complex. It combines bruising rock with off-kilter electronics – all underlying singer, Aoife O'Leary’s powerful and gentle vocals. The band was featured as “Best Unsigned Band” in major genre-based European magazines and had been touring extensively across the States and playing shows at the infamous Viper Room and The Roxy on LA’s legendary Sunset Strip.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Aoife shares her story of how she landed on scoring a film. She also shared some tips on how to face your fears and overcome anxiety to accomplish your goals.

Things We Discussed

Moth Complex - Aoife’s band

Poppy Moth- Aoife’s production company

Intro to Scoring - a comprehensive course to uncover all you need to know to break into the exciting world of scoring music for media

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Our special guest this week is Kris Bradley, a songwriter/producer who has done some amazingly cool things with Sony BMG, Rolling Stones Magazine, Fox, LinkedIn and Miramax.

She’s the founder of Produce Like a Boss and BoomFox Productions. Kris is a 6-figure musician and a producer business coach.  She teaches musicians how to produce their own music from home, and how to build a business as a freelance musician/recording artist.

What You’ll Learn

Kris shares her story on how it was very challenging for a singer/songwriter who is not technically inclined and didn't grow up in an era or age of smartphones and computers.

Let us know how Kris was able to sit at home, not even have to put on real pants and track vocals, doing jingles for these clients,and making 6-figures as a musician.

Let us also dig into her mantra which is Create, Release, Repeat and learn more about the new music industry, and how to go PRO as a producer.

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Our special guest for today’s episode is Michele McLaughlin. She is a self-taught contemporary solo pianist and composer. She has released twenty-one albums, many of which have received multiple nominations and awards.

She has over 1.5 Billion spins on Pandora radio and has been featured in Rolling Stone Magazine, both online and in print. Her albums “Undercurrent”, “Life” and “Memoirs” all debuted at #5, #4, and #3 on the New Age Billboard Charts.

She has performed in over 200 concerts. She has been featured on radio stations worldwide, including SiriusXM, MusicChoice Soundscapes, Whisperings Solo Piano Radio and Echoes.

What You’ll Learn

In this episode, Michele will share how she self-taught herself to play the piano and how she began her journey as an artist. She also discusses how having the proper mindset as a new musician is very important and how being successful as a musician is all about being patient. She also shares how to overcome the biggest obstacle that musicians face which is failing to believe in themselves. She also talks about how important branding is and how the story of the song makes a huge impact.

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