In our latest roundup, we present eight rising professionals from various parts of the biz whose dedication and effort make their superiors look good.
This week's entrants will also find their faces in our latest mag, which could make for a great (or dismal) conversation during
Grammy week.
Stephanie AristakesianAgent, Wasserman Music
Since inking
Disco Lines in 2022, Aristakesian has booked him on two sold-out tours and in 2023 alone, 20 festivals. She had
Omar Apollo—who’s scored campaigns for lifestyle brands
Loewe and
Youth to the People—on
SZA’s arena outing last spring. Up next: DL’s residency at
Wynn Las Vegas, OA’s international festival run,
Elderbrook’s
Red Rocks headlining gig, road shows for
Nicky Youre,
ALLEYCVT and
AYYBO and work with Aussie
Pretty Girl and Kiwi
33 Below. While at
USC, Aristakesian booked
Diplo—then had to chase him down for her charger. People tend to chase us away.
Tyler Eilenberg Director, Creative Innovation, Republic
After weeks of planning, Eilenberg got to witness the “beautiful moment” last July when
Post Malone emerged from the
TSX billboard in Times Square to perform for thousands of fans. Eilenberg has lately been all about artificial intelligence and what it means for the creative community. He and his team are using the technology to release one of the label’s platinum songs in multiple languages. In his spare time, this innovator writes poetry and is planning to publish his first book this year. We’ve been banned from the release party well in advance.
Lysa CardenasGlobal Music Program Manager, TikTok
Cardenas worked on
TikTok in the Mix, the platform’s first concert, which starred
Cardi B,
Peso Pluma,
Anitta,
Niall Horan and
Charlie Puth and attracted 34m+ viewers to TikTok LIVE and 17,000 attendees IRL―(including her mom). Among other endeavors, the programming ace is developing the Latin-music spotlight
#Rompiendo. It’s featured
Daddy Yankee,
Yahritza y Su Esencia,
Feid,
Camilo and
Maria Becerra and in 2023 generated 16.6m+ views. Cardenas nearly ditched music for culinary school. Most people wish we’d quit. Not that our cooking’s any better.
Noah SimonGlobal Music Agent, UTA
Simon has been thanked by
Jacob Collier at the
Grammys and learned a Buddhist chant from
Herbie Hancock and Swedish pickup lines from
Quincy Jones. He’s now launching a global campaign for the fourth edition of Collier’s
DJesse (
Interscope/
Decca), due 2/29, and will bring the artist’s live show to
Radio City Music Hall, the
Greek Theatre,
O2 Arena and other venues. He’s also handling live plans for artists like
The Kid LAROI,
Masego,
Snoh Aalegra,
Teezo Touchdown and
Cimafunk. Simon recently ran his first marathon in NYC. If only he could run from this.
Claudia SchumannDirector, Artist Management & Strategy, S10 Entertainment
Schumann will never forget when, after a steady climb, S10 artist
Myke Towers’ “LALA” hit #1 on
Spotify global. The longest-running #1 Latin solo track on the platform, it’s now sextuple platinum, with 3.5b+ streams across DSPs and 12m+
TikTok videos. She’s presently working with Towers on his feature-rich Q2 album, world tour, streaming strategy for latest hit “LA FALDA” and, with his creative team,
Nissan-sponsored pre-
Super Bowl performance on
Univision. Schumann is fluent in four languages (English, German, French and Spanish), which is four more than us.
Tom PhillipsDirector, Marketing, 10K Projects
During a three-week trip with 10K Projects’
iann dior last year, Phillips joined him onstage in front of 35k fans, ate some of “the best sushi in the world” and caked someone in the audience at a
Steve Aoki show. This year he’s focused on spreading the word about emerging artists
Rich Amiri and
YTB Fatt, promoting the next moves of
Ice Spice and
Trippie Redd and finding creative ways to develop 10K’s catalog. In 2022 Phillips crowd-surfed to the stage at
Coachella and got to play guitar with punk act
Skegss. People generally want to crowd-surf away from us.
Amy Zaglauer VP, Brand Management, Bravado
After their
Saturday Night Live performance, Zaglauer partied with
twenty one pilots until 8:00 in the morning. The self-described foodie also got to hang out with chef
Eric Ripert while dining with
Young the Giant at New York’s famed
Le Bernardin. More recently she’s been working on
Olivia Rodrigo’s upcoming world tour and building on new music by
Ariana Grande ahead of her
eternal sunshine, due 3/8. Zaglauer broke up with her identical twin sister’s boyfriends for her until the two were 19. To return the favor, she could send her sister to deal with us.
Felipe FavelaCEO/Founder, Boom.Records
Favela has managed dance artist
Austin Millz since 2019, booking him at the
Miami Grand Prix and helping produce his takeover of the first official
Spotify x Boiler Room playlist for his headlining show in Brooklyn. He’s also inked acts like
Darci,
JELEEL!,
Paul Russell,
Frex and
Chandler Leighton early in their careers. Today he’s working on Millz’s 2024 tour, building imprints with brands like
Beat Stars and preparing for new albums by Darci, Leighton and
Nate Traveller. Favela was a pro video-gamer at the age of 15. We’re still learning how to use the VCR.
