A Career in Music: Building Your Inner Circle

A follow-up to the successful "A Career in Music: the other 12 step program", this book focuses on how to build your team as an artist. "A Career in Music: building your inner circle" answers the questions: How do I get a manager, a booking agent, a record label, a publisher, a producer and other important people and companies to help my career? What do these business relationships look like? What do deals with these different players in the music business look like? Bob D'Eith has worked in the music business for more than 25 years as a two-time JUNO Award nominated artist, music lawyer, author, label and publishing company executive, and studio owner. For 14 years, Bob was the Executive Director and CEO of Music BC, British Columbia's trade organization for the music industry. Bob D'Eith was a co-creator of the award winning PEAK Performance Project, a program that helped to launch the careers of number of amazing Canadian artists.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Bob D’Eith has been involved in the music industry for twenty-five years in various capacities: entertainment lawyer (D’Eith & Company), two time JUNO Award nominated recording artist (Rymes with Orange and Mythos), studio owner, label and publisher (Adagio Media). For eleven years (2001-2015), Bob was the executive director of the Music BC Industry Association (Music BC), a non-profit society dedicated to the development of music and the music industry in BC. Music BC administered the award winning Peak Performance Project and is also the FACTOR affiliated office for BC. Bob was on the board and executive of the CIMA (Canadian Independent Music Association). He also sat on FACTOR’s National Advisory Board for 14 years (past chair). Bob was the executive chair of the Host Committee for the Vancouver 2009 JUNO Awards. Bob was a founding director of the Canadian Council of Music Industry Associations (CCMIA) and the Western Canadian Music Alliance (WCMA and BreakOut West).