Artist Development |
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To Assist you in securing or establishing a publishing company if applicable. |
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An entertainment attorney for many years, Alan Oken began his music industry career in 1977 as tour manager for Capitol recording artist Juice Newton. His extensive tour experience led him to a position at A&M Records in 1979, where he served as Vice President of Artist Development until 1988.
Here are just some of the artists in Alan's track record: The Police, Sting, Joe Jackson, Oingo Boingo, Supertramp, Styx, Janet Jackson, Bryan Adams, Jeffrey Osborne, Atlantic Starr, George Winston, LTD, UB40, Simple Minds, Suzanne Vega, Squeeze, Split Enz, Al Green, Bill Wyman, Barry White, Peter Frampton, OMD, the Go-Goís, the Carpenters, Chris De Burgh and Amy Grant.
He also had overall responsibility for A&Mis Artist Relations, Special Projects and College Radio and Retail areas.
In addition, Oken was a participant in the development and structuring of marketing plans for all projects during his decade at the label. He was responsible for all video promotion, including MTV, BET and VH-1 and participated in image development for the artist roster.
He currently serves as Senior Vice President of Business Affairs for Innovative Media Productions, Inc., creator of Music In High Places currently airing on DirecTV and MTV and various other television programming. These are all very important parts of the entertainment industry.
IE consultant dept. has been involved in image and development concepts for several world class artists and has proven insight and timing. These commodities are ever so important and IE has over 80 years of successful relationships with numerous world class artists and industry leaders. It is this insight and foresight that we will use to establish the artist and to create a demand. Please contact us if you wish more in depth information regarding artist Development and other tools you need to succeed.