Seeker Music, the brand new music rights and publishing firm headed up by hit songwriter Evan Bogart, has employed Jennifer Blakeman as Chief Rights & Royalties Officer.
At Seeker, she’s going to lead and oversee the enlargement of their rights administration, administration, and royalty platforms.
In accordance with Seeker, Blakeman’s profession started within the 80s “as a university pupil aiming for a profession as a session keyboardist”. After coming to the eye of Eddie Van Halen who enlisted her to “create a signature keyboard sound” for him, she spent a number of years working with him on a number of tasks.
After her recording profession (which additionally included time on the highway performing with artists like Billy Idol), she served as an government at firms together with Atlantic Information and Common Music Publishing, the place she was liable for the publishing of artists together with Justin Timberlake, T-Ache, and Linkin Park.
She joins Seeker from her earlier function as President and CCO of the boutique music writer one77 Music.
Blakeman can be at the moment an adjunct professor of music publishing at NYU, and serves as a member on the Board of Trustees of the Recording Academy, alongside Seeker Music CEO, and chart-topping songwriter, Evan Bogart.
Together with Bogart, Blakeman joins an government staff composed of Seeker CFO Jennifer Scher, COO Rob Guthrie, Head of Artistic Steven Melrose, and Board Chairman, John Smith (representing key buyers M&G).
Her appointment comes two weeks after Seeker acquired the total masters and publishing catalog of Grammy-winning American singer-songwriter Christopher Cross.
In January, Seeker Music acquired of the catalogs of pop songwriters John Ryan and Jon Bellion.
“As a musician and songwriter myself, I’ve all the time advocated for the creators inside the trade. That sense of ‘songwriters come first’ is what drew me to Seeker.”
Jennifer Blakeman
Blakeman mentioned: “As a musician and songwriter myself, I’ve all the time advocated for the creators inside the trade.
“That sense of ‘songwriters come first’ is what drew me to Seeker, and I’m excited to proceed advocating for and ensuring that songwriters get their justifiable share on this new function.”
“Jennifer is a rockstar within the music publishing world.”
Evan Bogart
Bogart added: “Jennifer is a rockstar within the music publishing world. She actually cares about, and advocates for, songwriters, artists and their music in a means that I believe you possibly can solely really perceive in the event you’ve been a songwriter or artist your self. Her huge expertise engaged on each the artistic and administrative aspect of the enterprise aligns with the creator-first, creator-led imaginative and prescient that we’ve constructed Seeker on since day one. I’ve needed to work along with her for a very long time so I’m thrilled that point has come.”
