As part of the ongoing Music Industry Incubator Workshop series, Phil Chard from Point Black Entertainment spoke to a group of artists from Bulawayo in a full-day workshop to help them develop and harness their digital skills.
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Zimbabwe-born and now Los Angeles-based Grammy-nominated musician Daecolm flew into Bulawayo to be part of The Music Industry Incubator Workshop to speak on Songwriting. The charismatic vocalist and writer shared information on song structure, maintaining your identity, branding and promotion with the artists.
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Point Black Entertainment and Unplugged Zimbabwe held the first in-person edition of The Music Industry Incubator. The all-day workshop was attended by both established music industry professionals and up-and-coming artists and managers.
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Spirit Fingerz is one of Zimbabwe’s most celebrated and talented producers, musical directors, an accomplished performer and session musician. He has worked with some of Zimbabwe’s most accomplished artists such as Tamy Moyo, Janet Manyowa, Ammara Brown, Takura, Nutty O and more.
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As part of The Music Industry Incubator workshop series, we invited artist manager Jack Mashala (Mas Musiq) to fly in from South Africa to have a 1 on 1 conversation with Phil Chard on how best to build a brand, what managers should be aware of and what artists can do to work with their management to build a revenue generating brand.
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As part of The Music Industry Incubator Workshop series, we had DJ Tamuka - one of Zimbabwe’s most accomplished and successful producers and composers come to speak to our artists on the intricacies of his process and how best to prepare a song. He then gave a live session on how he made one of Jay Prayzah’s biggest hits to date titled Dangerous.
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As a leading Music Festival Director in Southern Africa, Walter Wanyanya has been privileged to witness the rise of some truly exceptional artists who have gone on to become internationally booked and respected across the world. Most notably he worked with the late Dr Oliver Mtukudzi.
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This week The Music Industry Incubator hosts Aurelia J. Schultz who is an international copyright expert with 15 years of experience in African Copyright.
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The Music Industry Incubator project consists of a series of online workshops open to all artists. The workshops are currently being held on Tuesday and Thursday evenings on Twitter Spaces. The workshops will run until September 2022.
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This week we had artist, event promoter and content creator Game “Zeus” Bantsi to talk to us about his creative journey and how artists can come out of the pandemic with their best foot forward while also putting safeguards in place to ensure their careers are not completely derailed by unforeseen circumstances
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Mutsai Musa has been running the creative incubator, Quiet Riot Media for 15 years. Quiet Riot Media has consulted for both international artists and large entertainment companies on intellectual property and copyright management, paying attention to protecting income streams and generating long-term revenue for creative projects. Recent clients include Apple Music Africa, Universal Music Publishing Group Africa, Sony Music Africa, Interscope Records (USA), Platoon Africa, LVRN Records (USA).
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Carol Ndosi is an entrepreneur who runs The Nyama Choma Festival, one of East Africa’s largest festivals. It draws the continent’s most prominent musical talent once a quarter to a one-of-a-kind food and music extravaganza. It has been running for 11 years and remains the main attraction on Dar-es-Salaam’s social calendar.
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Munya Chanetsa is a well-known music executive and founder of M.O.T.I with more than 10 years of A&R and licensing experience. He has worked with mobile operators, CAPASSO and Sony Music Publishing amongst others. He has also been a featured presenter on music copyright at leading forums and conferences in South Africa, Angola, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria and Zimbabwe.
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RayDizz is one of Zimbabwe's leading DJs and performers who has graced the stages of The Ministry of Sound, Marquee Las Vegas, Big Brother Africa, Vic Falls Carnival, HIFA and opened up for some of Africa's biggest stars.
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The first of The Music Industry Incubator workshops kicked off on June 9 with Zimbabwean-born superstar producer Mr Kamera. In our chat, we covered a lot of topics that would be incredibly helpful to Zimbabwean musicians of all kinds.
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