One thing that I love about writing bios is that they often don't have bylines. It's a collaborative craft that reaches the public as part of something greater; context, prose, and style in service of the artist's vision.
I'm grateful to work with musicians and be trusted with their stories. A successful bio articulates and honors that vision, while meeting the world where it lives, still accomplishing the foundational marketing objectives: to compel, inform, and inspire.
My experience working within both record label teams and editorial positions has allowed me to view the medium from several vantage points, understanding the various destinations these words reach, including press, DSPs, retail, and social media.
In addition to my in-house role as communications director, narrative lead, and press strategist, I’ve also written bios in a freelance capacity. Clients include Dais Records, Dead Oceans, drink sum wtr, Ghostly International, Nettwerk Music Group, RVNG Intl., Touchtheplants, Secret City Records, and Western Vinyl, spanning releases across electronic, hip-hop, indie, jazz, pop, R&B, and beyond. Selected works below:
Annahstasia - Tether
Brijean - Macro (and more)
Braids - Euphoric Recall
Cindytalk - Camouflage Heart
crushed - no scope
Deem Spencer - Pain & the people around me
Dua Saleh - I SHOULD CALL THEM
Elori Saxl - Drifts and Surfaces
Elujay - A Constant Charage
Emeralds - Solar Bridge (reissue)
Galcher Lustwerk - 100% GALCHER (and more)
Ginger Root - SHINBANGUMI
Goya Gumbani - Warlord of the Weejuns
Halima - SWEET TOOTH
Hana Vu - Public Storage
Joviale - Mount Crystal
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore
Julie Byrne - The Greater Wings
JEMS! - GEMS IN THE CORNERSTORE II
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith - The Mosaic Of Transformation
Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith & Emile Mosseri - I Could Be Your Dog / I Could Be Your Moon
Kate Bollinger - Look at it in the Light
Khotin - Release Spirit (and more)
M. Sage - Tender / Wading (and more)
Mary Lattimore - Goodbye, Hotel Arkada (and more)
Matthew Dear - Preacher's Sigh & Potion: Lost Album
NEIL FRANCES (Club NF)
quickly, quickly - I Heard That Noise (and more)
Shigeto - Cherry Blossom Baby
St. Panther - Strange World
Studio - West Coast (reissue)
The Album Leaf - Future Falling (and more)
THEY. - LOVE.JONES
TOBACCO - Hot Wet & Sassy
TOPS - Bury the Key
Toro y Moi - Unerthed: Hole Erth Unplugged
Yaya Bey - do it afraid
Whatever The Weather - Whatever The Weather
Various Artists - Ghostly Swim 3
Various Artists — Thousands of Eyes in the Dark