Tess Taylor Email & Phone Number

Tess Taylor is president of the National Assn. of Record Industry Professionals (NARIP.com) which promotes career advancement, education & good will in the record industry & related music fields. She is creator of NARIP's Music Supervisor Pitch Sessions which have yielded over 3,000 music placements for participants and sold out in LA, New York, Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, Berlin, Paris and London. She created NARIP's Synch Agent Pitch Sessions, yielding 35 talent rep signings. A leading authority on careers in recorded music, Ms. Taylor has been called The Job Whisperer & has connected countless people to jobs & opportunities through her work in the U.S. and abroad, cultivated business & creative collaborations for almost three decades, helped launch hundreds of projects & several companies. She has consulted for leading businesses such as InsideSessions (a joint venture between Universal Music Group & Penguin Putnam, Inc.), The Walt Disney Company, BMG Ent. (formerly Sony BMG) & Concord Records. Ms. Taylor works with international music associations to connect their members to opportunities in major US music markets. She is a vigorous defender of IP rights & lectures throughout the US & around the world, including at the Harvard Business School, in Berlin, Bangalore and elsewhere. Ms. Taylor is President of the LA Music Network (LAMN.com) & creator of the LAMN Jam Music Contests which launched the Mowglis who won in 2011. LAMN Jams helped launch 2006 winner Tim Fagan who then won a Grammy & 2007 winner Aloe Blacc. From 1988 to 1993 Ms. Taylor was employed at MCA Records, Inc., last serving as Associate Director of Marketing. A classically trained pianist, she studied music at the University of Vienna and is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Redlands' Johnston College where she received her BA degree in music, German language & literature. A coffee snob, she enjoys reading, fine fountain pens, and hiking with her beloved hounds.

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