Members of Lamna (founded in 1988) and NARIP (founded 1998), are able to more quickly the perception, knowledge and contact details need for professional development and career enhancement.

The success of both organizations extends well beyond their names – and both have NARIP Lamna members across the country and around the world. They have opened offices in Canada, New York and London, with other cities to get in line.

Before the development of Taylor of these influential organizations, there was no official entity that directed the creation of educational networks or mentoring functions necessary to nurture a new generation in the music business. Each of these factors is important, but there is no doubt that one Taylor values most: "Networking is what this business – any business, actually – it is, "he said." If you want to get ahead, you have to know people. You can be a genius but remain entrenched in obscurity and poverty unless you go out there and let people know who you are. "

Lamna:

Lamna is a multifaceted resource for newcomers to the business music, as well as a way for students to learn more about the industry and how they could enter it. Lamna sponsors industry meetings, workshops and seminars with senior executives from all areas of the music business.

NARIP:

To qualify to become a member of NARIP, you must be a professional in the music industry. "I realized that, beyond organizations like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), which is a body advocacy that focuses on legislation, was not an organization that serves the needs of those whose careers are completely in the music industry " Taylor said.

The beginnings.

"The idea of the Network of Music in Los Angeles back to my first job in the business, with Avalon Attractions, a major concert promoter in Southern California, "says Taylor." All spoke of the music industry wheel comes together to make a concert happen. Here I was, fresh out of college, and I had access to almost all possible types of professionals – from radio to press to record company staff, managers artist to the artists themselves. "

Taylor looked for an association through which she could meet the people who interacted with the phone. "I I was very surprised not to find anything of real value, so we started putting together little meet and greet the crowd that I was facing, "he says." At first, there were only three or four of us, but it grew. That was the seed that led me to building professional relationships I have today, not to mention the Bank Working and my mailing list. It's the best in the business. "

Something that Lamna NARIP and do overlap, and Taylor regularly employs panel members NARIP Lamna and other functions, and to mentor members Lamno. However, she is willing to provide the right kind of experience of each group.

For members NARIP, his approach is to assume a role of training. "We must never stop learning and, no matter how much experience we have, there's always something else or another point of view we can absorb and appreciate, "said Taylor.

Pianist become enforceable:

A classically trained pianist, Taylor also is an instructor, music business lecturer and speaker at institutions like Harvard Business School, University of New York, the Caltech / MIT Enterprise Forum, Berklee College of Music, University of California at Los Angeles (Entertainment Studies and Performing Arts), University of Southern California, the Academy of Contemporary Music (Guildford, London), University of California at Chico State, Middle Tennessee State University, Symposium of Music Education Association and the Entertainment Industry International (2000 and 2002), University of Hawaii, California State University Pomona, College of Pepperdine University Business and others. A popular guest speaker and participant in industry conferences internationally, she served as President of the Conference of Musicom4, a music technology symposium (1998), and as keynote speaker Berklee College of Music Summer Conference (2003)

She is a consultant for InsideSessions, a joint venture between Universal Music Group and Penguin Putnam, and sits in international charity and numerous boards of directors of the industry. She is a frequent judge U.S. talent and international talent competitions and has recently participated in panels Universal Talent for Prague (Czech Republic 2003) and Golden Magnolia International Song Festival (Baton Rouge, 2003).

As a writer and collaborator, their analysis have appeared recently in Billboard magazine, today Radio & Records, USA, Newsweek, Source Magazine, the Chicago Sun Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Los Los Angeles Daily News, Daily Variety, Musician Magazine, Wired Magazine Lip Service, Los Angeles Business Journal and news agencies like Reuters Ltd., and the international business press (Capital Magazine [Spain], Challenges / Le Nouvel Observateur [France]). She has been a leading expert in "Setting the National Public Radio's Hollywood" Fox News Channel, SAMM Brown "For The Record" on KPFK 90.7 FM, Ira Fistell radio program on KRLA Talk 1110-AM and the news media.

Contact:

Tess Taylor can be reached at (818) 769-7007 or by email to tess@narip.com .

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