Wednesday, April 30, 2014

MUSSBUSSPROJECT: 5 TIPS Every Performing Artiste Should Know

Music Business Consultant,Rashida Rose give you tips & tricks on how to become successful in the business of music, from a Jamaican perspective, If one needs to succeed in the music industry & make money in the entertainment industry, while doing what you love to do, practicing these principles will definitely make or assist you to traverse towards becoming a power player in the business of music.

Who will benefit from this info:
  •  Singers
  •  Songwriters
  •  Music Producers
  •  Deejays
  •  Marketing professionals
  •  Business Managers
  •  Artiste Manager

5 TIPS Every Performing Artiste Should Know

TIP #1:  GET REPRESENTATION (put your best foot forward)
Get a professional’s perspective; get a professional to represent you……
Do you have an idea? Sing, Dance, Deejay, create sounds & play instrument, and you want the world, to know you exist, get council, research, try our tip videos mentorship is available, to whoever that needs it. Talent is important but preparation & presentation is ultra important.
TIP #2: BE RESPECTFUL (first impression is lasting)
When approaching potential investors, producers, radio disk jocks, sound system operators, check the mood of the environment/person, and first use empathy (Put yourself in his/her position) almost EVERYDAY they consistently be bombarded, plagued, stalked, bad up etc. for a chance to have there music featured/played or get put on the latest or happening producer.
Make sure your approach isn’t threatening, nor overly disturbing, make it so interesting as to get there attention, without disrespecting there company/people/person they are speaking to before you interrupted them, introduce yourself quickly, ask how you can send your music & if they’re working on anything that could accommodate you.
Example (Yuh have a riddim yah work pon or yah put out nuh new artiste?) or whatever or whoever you represent in that space & time, VERY IMPORTANT whenever you send your music make sure it is MP3 this will allow the receiver to hear you almost instantaneously, also attach your contact information along with any social media that’ll show you off in the best light…
FINAL NOTE on this tip
  • DO NOT approach a Deejay if you’re a Deejay
  • DO NOT approach a Singer if you’re a Singer
  • DO NOT approach a Producer/ Riddim builder if you are providing the same services ALWAYS do the ALTER approaching same person talent may become problematic.

TIP #3: PREPARE YOURSELF - (put more efforts into what you love doing)Spend time in your craft, properly construct your lyrics, metaphor & melodies so anyone who understand our culture or the type of music your presenting, can understand… test your presentation on friends & family, get there opinion, then ask what they liked or disliked about your presentation also ask how it can be done better or differently.
FINAL NOTE on this tip
  • DO NOT DRINK COLD beverages/drinks before singing/deejay in front of a prospective investor/producer
TIP # 4: PROFESSIONAL PRESS KIT / EPK For whatever reason, record label, newspaper, A&R, stage show promoters, radio/media personnel, etc. make sure your have a professional (PAPK) Performing Artiste Press Kit or a (EPK) Electronic Press Kit, which contains Photographs, CD, DVD, Biography etc.
FINAL NOTE on this tip
If you cannot afford the professional services of a local P.R company, or you choose to solicit here are some
Free & paid resources: 
TIP #5: KNOW YOUR GENRE (where to position your music & what music your represent)
To be taken seriously & marketed properly, when  & if you decide to sell your music, be sure to know what category
Example: (Rising/New/Established) artiste you are, what genre music you represent Example: (Dancehall, Reggae, Merengue, Soca, Funk, Zouk etc.) Music distributors need this information to know, where to place your product.
FINAL NOTE on this tip
  • DO NOT GIVE/SEND your music to Diskjock who plays Gospel    Music, when your music is clearly secular
  • DO NOT FORCE your music unto ANYONE
  • RESEARCH B4/SEND/CONNECT/SELL your music to always be professional, this is your business, you will be earning & will continue to earn
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Location: Kingston, Jamaica

Thursday, May 20, 2010

20 Things not to do while in Jamaica

1.Employ someone and dont pay them
2. Over work someone and not pay them what they're worth
3. Disrespect the DADS ( area leader )'bad people'
3. Disrespect their favorite artiste
4. Speak badly about the prime minister or who ever is in power ( who ever is running the country )
5. Call a bigman BWOY or BOY
6. Call a Rasta dread
7. Diss Bob Marley
8. Talk bad about the person's mother, to whom you speak to
9. Be friends to Homosexuals, thief, crack heads
10. Act like your better than people
11. Disrespect the authority ( security officers, guardie, police officers (blue/Red seem), transport authority)
12. When you see a coaster bus, you drive beside or behind it
14. If you see someone trying to better them self and don't help them if you can
15. Speak to someone while they are in a personal conversation with them self
16. Refer to an artiste (dj, singer, dancer) as no name artiste
17. Don't say to a black man ... he mah nigger/nigga, whether u r black or white
18. Ask a man in the entertainment business to come here
19. Make a promise and don't keep it
20. Make a comment, stare or look at another man / woman, woman/man
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Friday, July 13, 2007

Upcoming & Established Artistes A like

1. Have their money when they finish performing onstage, dub plates, etc.
2. Treat them respectfully (out of the ordinary)
3. Whatever a representative or a member of the entourage says do it
4. Do not try to speak to the artiste directly, without sending message a member of the entourage
5. Allow them to want to speak to u
6. Do not crowd their space
7. TIME MANAGEMENT: If you want to see them at 12midday expect 4pm or tell them a time before, (with exception of others) if they consider you important or what you bring to the previously discussed
8. Don't speak about what you discuss with them to another artiste, or send messages to anyone about them (NOT WISE)
9. Studio time should be ready when they arrive (not before or after)
10. Have comfort or relaxation tools to get good results, creativity is not rushed be patient!!!
11. Be prepared to work both mind, body and concentration, this most of all, this should be taken very seriously
12. If you wish to do a collaboration type work please be careful these artiste doesn't have any form of reason to think something aint going right, everything needs to be clear, between both parties

I f you wish to know more email me at mbp@reggaefan.com or call 876.796.9530

People seem to think that because our above title, we should be used and abuse, but this is not how we operate, we are talented we do the same things and more given the right vibe and opportunity as any other international artistes.
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