Twentysomething in the Music Biz

On Thursday, I spent the whole day talking about $$$, meeting interesting people, and tweeting for SoundCtrl, so thanks a lot to Billboard for my free pass (valued at $1200)!!!  Also, I finally got to meet Alex White from Next Big Sound who I interviewed for SoundCtrl.  It’s always great putting a face to a voice.

Another one of those interesting people was Shefali Kumar who conceived and developed Emotitones.  Essentially, Emotitones is SMS text messages containing a 20 second clip of an actual song which is supposed to convey the emotion of the sender.  Anyways, I told Shefali about FlashFwd on around 3PM on Thursday afternoon.  She followed up with me on Friday afternoon around 4PM to say she started hustling for nominations and at 12:30AM she said she confirmed 50 nominations (note:  she ended with 54).  It’s that sort of dedication that drives a great idea into a successful execution.  Regardless if Emotitones is a winner, please please please check it out.

Expect an in depth post about the conference Monday morning on the SoundCtrl blog (UPDATE:  post is up).  In addition, we announce the Flashfwd winners on Monday afternoon!!!