Rida’s hit, “Be With Me” has been topping the charts since the worldwide radio campaign began by Musik Radio Promotions weeks ago.
Rida does it all: R&B, Dance, Rock, College, Urban –his songs are loved by so many fans!
He writes all his own songs – lyrics and melodies, mixes them, and usually does most of his own music, and directs all his own video clips (sometimes collaborating with assistant producers).
There will be much more to come from Rida!
After a full three years writing and recording this album, Anjali is now on a high-speed train with Musik and Film and worldwide radio promotions.
What would Sade, Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos sound like if they had been raised in India?
Anjali, raised in New Delhi till the age of 10, draws on her extensive training in classical piano, Indian Hindustani classical vocal training, and occasional moonlighting as a jazz pianist to create emotional and haunting melodies. Learning piano through the British school of music since the age of 4, Anjali’s early musical foundation was later strengthened by the contrast of her Indian vocal training, enabling her to begin writing her own songs and communicating in a way words alone never can.
After performing in venues throughout Chicago and Los Angeles, Anjali began a career as an engineer, which enabled her to embrace her greatest gift to date – motherhood. She recently seized the opportunity to create a full length album of songs inspired by her experiences as a wife and mother. Her songs are sonically captivating, blending rhythms and music from east and west. Her lyrics mirror the challenges, struggles and joys we all face in our lifetime, and combine with her powerful, angelic voice to yield a soulful and honest product.
If you could make 1 change to the music industry, what would it be?
The music industry right now is highly corporatized. Streaming services such as Spotify, on the one hand, make music more accessible, which is great for independent artists. But on the other hand it makes it virtually impossible for an independent artist to ever get properly compensated for the effort and work they put into their product. As a result, people are listening to only that which major conglomerates promote, which is low risk and seldom authentic and original. Every new song that comes out is designed to grab your attention within five seconds, and as a result the beauty that is a slow yet glorious build up of a song is no more. Even if we cannot change the corporate model of music, I suppose I would like for these powerful entities to take more chances on artists that have newer sounds, so that music can continue to break boundaries the way it did in the 20th century.
What do you want to always be remembered for?
Above all, as an honest and original songwriter. Secondarily, as a voice for working moms and parents who struggle with the demands of raising kids in a society where help is stigmatized as weakness. This record was created after I emerged from a dark period right after becoming a mom. It does get better.
What advice would you give a music artist who is just starting out?
Practice your craft! Keep playing, keep writing, keep singing. Even if you don’t think there is a reason on the horizon, like a performance or a recording. Because if and when the opportunity does strike, you better be ready.
How would you describe your music?
Hindustani vocal infused classical piano based jazz-influenced pop music with an R&B back line. You know, typical stuff. 😉
When did you realize that you wanted a career in music and what prompted that decision?
An opportunity fell into my lap when I met my producer by chance. I knew then that I owed it to myself, my parents who had invested so much in my musical education, and all the friends who have supported me along the way to make the most of this opportunity and put out the best record that I could.
if you had the chance for the world to hear one song what would it be?
“The best is yet to come”. It is one of the most honest songs I have written, and I believe the theme is universal. It is a song about the enduring bonds of love, but also acknowledges that life isn’t a bed of roses, and that true love deepens through both adversity and joy. Plus, it is a tribute to my husband, and I want my listeners to know how much he has supported me through this entire journey…. Anjali Ray
My email gets blasted everyday with 10 tips or 5 ways to get discovered or some other bs article. All to get you to subscribe to their site , to lure the uneducated musician into believing if they just follow these steps they will have a successful career in the music business, BS. They all say the same thing but in a different way.
Do you really want to know how to succeed in the music business? Then read on I will tell you how without any hype. Do you see the word business? Being a good musician is not enough, you have to be a good businessperson. If you are going into business the first thing you should do is fully educate yourself on the business you have chosen to go into. Then formulate a business plan and make sure you have money to carry out your business plan. If you’rE not prepared to be a business person or hire a manager who is — then get used to playing on your porch to the flies cause that’s all that will ever hear you besides the people at the corner bar.
The record labels are dead they aren’t selling records, music is free now . So why would a record label want to sign you and invest thousand’s of dollars with no way to get it back or make a profit. They don’t. The days of record labels are over. So get over it, forget the ole school way and educate yourself and move on.
Lets take a look a one successful indie artist, Mackelmore . He played all over the country for over a decade and built a huge following. The following drew investors and Mackelmore knew the business so he took the money and played the game very successfully.
OK you’ve read the above articles now read this –promotional dollars spent by Mackelmore were in excess of one million dollars.
The fact is you ain’t gonna hit billboard anytime soon no matter how good you are unless you have at least ½ million to drop into promotion in the US. The whole US and music industry is just as crooked as politics. Fact is you could be Donald Duck and sing out of tune but if you had enough money you could have a hit record. I have heard some awesome musicians and songwriters but unless they learn the business and execute a business plan you ever won’t hear them unless you wade thru the billions of releases on a free streaming site.
OK you don’t have a half a million dollars? Then there are alternatives. Lets begin by crushing some myths. Streaming, the streaming companies advertise free music ,then they try to tell the musicians this is great exposure for them. That BS – how is anyone ever gonna find you among billions of songs. They’re not. Harvard law calls streaming piracy plain and simple. You’ve been ripped off . They have taken the music that you have created and stolen it from you all so they could charge a minimal monthly fee. If Indie musicians would unite, they outnumber the big machine and could crush it. Refuse to give your music away for free. Sell it off your website.
Want a sure fire way to achieve success in the music business? Work your ass off. That’s right work your ass off. First polish your craft so you can hold your own with anyone in the world, develop your product, book gigs even if for free at first if your that good the listeners will know it to and they will tell others and they will all come to see you, get more gigs , work to get them calls , emails what ever it takes even playing acoustically in front of the venue drawing their crowd outside . If you’re good they will hire you. Yeah all this time you are spending several hours a day blogging on social media trying to get fans and if you work your ass off and you are good then you will get fans. That’s success – it’s like a building it’s built one brick at a time- so is your music career.
Then there is radio promotion, essential for all artists. Some produce measurable results some don’t. There’s cheap guaranteed spins, So what if your played on a few internet stations with 4 listener’s each at 4 am. That’s not gonna translate to anything for you. There are some good promotion companies,ones that deal in major charts –ones that deal with the world not just the us or any other geographical area. After all we are all connected now. I’d advise the world, massive affordable exposure. Musik Radio Promotions just happens to offer the largest network of 250,000 stations anywhere in the world.
I leave you with one last word, “The young kid said to his mother ‘when I grow up Mom I want to be a musician‘ Then his mother then said, “You can’t have both son.”
Grow up and go after your dream as a businessperson and make your dream come true.
Stephen Wrench
President, Musik and Film
South African Symphonic Rock Band, Crimson Chrysalis, Sends Shock Waves with Musik Radio Promotions campaign on a global scale.
Crimson Chrysalis has been cited as being “one of the most brilliant surprises of the year” by Terry Thompson of Sonic Cathedral. “The release sent shock waves through the Femme Metal community, music to please, thoughts that go beyond the pale. There’s so much to learn from Africa.”
Rene Van Den Berg of Crimson Chrysalis, set aside some time to share a little about the band and give some great advice:
Personally I think an entertainer’s main focus/forte is pleasing the crowd, while a true artist wants to do what is good for his/her soul, regardless of whether it is the commercial or popular route, or the road less travelled. Some artists are both (without trying to be), and in my opinion that is when they break through the boundaries of time, genre, & trends and touches people’s hearts – because it is true, honest & authentic.
Besides music I love gymming/exercising (I am a total exercise junkie), spending time with good friends, and enjoying some good food – my favourites are lamb or chicken curry, salmon & sushi. Oh and shopping. . .I love shopping! (What woman don’t?)
America used to be known for a lotta pretty cool things. Streamlined cars with super fins, a cheeseburger with everything on it, and rock & roll to name just a few. But those innovations have gone the way of the Dodo bird, they’ve fallen afoul of a corporate need to re-dress everything that was, in order to make it cheaper,and to give it mass appeal; which also happens to make most things produced here today (which are very few by the way) suck! I don’t care about cheeseburgers, and you can’t buy a 1965 Thunderbird convertible anymore unless you go for an original, which’ll probably set you back a couple of hundred thousand bucks. No my beef is with Rock & Roll.
In the 1950’s rock & roll was born from Blues, R & B, gospel, and country music, Elvis thought he was a country singer until some girls saw him swinging his hips and began screaming uncontrollably, and from that moment on the cat was out of the bag so to speak, and it would never be put back. Rock & roll began to evolve.
It used to be that you would record a song, press it to a 45 disc, and take it yourself to your local radio station and literally give it to the DJ. If he liked it he would play it, and his audience would respond, and if they responded en-masse you had a hit on your hands, and you could record more because people liked your stuff, it said something to them, resonated with them, meant something.
Sadly today this is no longer the case, most of those independent radio stations that were run by people who cared about music, have been swallowed up by corporations who need to sell advertising on the strength of their listenership. These companies in turn rely on record labels to supply them with product, and that product is rapidly becoming a mystifyingly over produced hodge podge of insanity that leaves everybody wondering what the hell happened to good songs you can tap your feet to, or get involved with. Well, luckily for us singer/songwriters our local radio stations have now gone global.
I make music because I love making music; I write songs that I want people to relate to; and I am happiest when I have an audience. I’ve tried promoting my music to American radio, and I have good success with independent stations that care about music, but I am shutout of the syndicated stations because their Nashville pop playlists don’t play well with really innovative country rock music.
But it’s okay cats and kittens, we have a friend over at www.musikandfilm.com, his name is Stephen Wrench, he’s a musician himself, and God help him, he cares. He cares enough to have made your local radio station one in Paris, or Budapest, or London, or for that matter in any town or village worldwide. And get this, every time you release a song the last one, or two, or three are still there. So if a DJ suddenly cottons onto your sound, he has other songs he can draw on, and you’ll be getting played. Of course convincing the audience is still your job, and now you’ll get to sweat over the song, the vocals, the arrangement, and the mix. But at least you’ll have an audience, and believe me, that is worth its weight in gold!
Swedish artist Mirvas song “I Am The Sun” is crossing all genres since it’s release with Musik Radio Promotions. The Musik and Film’s production team re-mixed the song with the goal of producing a track to crossover multiple genres. Radio is proving this has been a success!
Give a listen and see if you agree!
NEW YORK, NY – April 7, 2014 – Greenpeace and Morris Music are proud to announce that Award Winning recording artist Ronny Morris will release his first track in support of Greenpeace, taken from his debut album entitled Sweet Silence.
Musik Radio Promotions will release the track in a worldwide radio campaign in support of the project.
The song, titled “Built to Last” which includes the release of three music videos and twelve remixes by artist like Rich Morel (Pink, Depeche Mode, The Killers), DJ Ganga and Leon El Ray, is scheduled to be available via Spotify and all digital retailers from April 7, 2014. Ronny Morris is teaming up with Greenpeace and Spotify on the release of this charity single where all revenue will go to the support of the Save The Arctic movement, which includes prominent names such as Radiohead, Sir Paul McCartney, and Chris Martin from Coldplay, supporting over 5 million people worldwide who has already signed the petition .
Birgitte Lesanner, Head of Communications in Greenpeace Nordic, is pleased to have Morris join their prestigious lineup of musicians who have joined over 5 million people worldwide who have petitioned for saving the Artic. ”We’re grateful for Ronny Morris and Spotify’s support to the Arctic campaign. The livelihood of the unique wildlife in the Arctic is changing rapidly. However, the very same oil companies that caused the ice to melt in the first place do not see it as a warning sign. Unfortunately they see the melting ice as a business opportunity. Only a strong global movement can stop the Arctic oil rush,” says Ms. Lesanner.
Ronny Morris, who is an avid proponent of Greenpeace, is thrilled that he can do his part in addressing this global issue. ”The Arctic is melting faster than anyone could help open people’s eyes to the great danger we are in. Hopefully, some will even join the movement to protect the Arctic,” says Ronny Morris. “Being that the U.N. Secretary-
General is currently traveling to Greenland to inspect the consequences of global warming should definitely raise concern for everyone.” The Save the Arctic campaign works for a ban on offshore oil drilling in the Arctic region, a stop on unregulated and destructive fisheries in the Arctic and a global sanctuary on the uninhabited area around the North Pole.
Morris’s music has been featured in award winning films and major American TV shows such as One Tree Hill, Brothers Sisters and Ghost Whisperer and was recently honored with two HMMA awards. Remixes of his songs are available on more than sixteen compilation CDs sold in 52 countries worldwide, including the world renowned Buddha Bar Compilation.
Do you have a million dollars? Most likely the answer is “no”. Are you trying to make it on mainstream US radio and promote to mediabase stations and hit the top 40? If you don’t have a million dollars to invest then you’re wasting your time. But you can make a good living from your music.
By wanting to make a living out of your music you have decided to go into business for yourself. That’s right, you have now attached the word business to your music. Any smart business person will have a business plan.
STEP ONE: First thing you need is a good song. One that everyone can relate to and has a memorable melody and a good hook line.
STEP TWO: A good recording and production is everything. Radio compresses the file and if you record it on a computer at home, that 24 bit is now 16 bit and after radio compresses it, it’s 6 to 8 bit. Do yourself a favor- go to a professional recording studio with a track record. Record on great equipment and use a skilled engineer / producer to help mix and master.
STEP THREE: Distribution. We are not a fan of digital distribution. We used to be before deals were made to stream music practically for free. It costs you money to create it- why give it away for free? As an alternative, manufacture cd’s and vinyl with some great artwork. Place them on your website for sale and sell them at your performances.
STEP FOUR: All business has to advertise or no one would know they exist and would not have any business. The same goes for you being an artist. You may have the best music in the world, but unless you advertise no one will know you exist. In this case your advertising budget includes going to radio, which is still the most viable way to get heard and to be able to tour. Hopefully you will do your investigation and choose a good radio promoter. One that goes to FM stations in all markets all over the world – not just a few stations in the US. It’s a big world out there. This is your best chance with a limited budget to make the most of your advertising dollars. We say, FM stations, because these stations always have venues that advertise with them.
STEP FIVE: Once your radio promotion has began, you contact the stations that are playing you and thank them. You offer them radio liners, radio interviews and most importantly, offer to send them a dozen promo give- away cds. Radio likes to offer their listening audience give- aways. To give your cds away, they play you more, mention who you are more and increase your exposure. Once you have done this you are that radio stations friend. So ask the stations that are playing you who their advertising venues are. Get their contact information. Call, email those venues. Tell them you are playing on xyz radio station in their town and want to come to their town to perform. Let the radio stations know you are going to do this and they will back you because if the venue hires you the venue will hire them to advertise the performance. This will get you even more exposure on that radio station. Radio will love you because they got the venues advertising dollars because of you. You get a performance date that is well advertised and a radio station that is playing your music and supporting you. Most likely when you go to perform you will have a full house of people who came to see you. You will sell merchandise, gain fans and if you do a good performance be asked to come back again. Everyone wins.
Odds are you will not become a superstar overnight but it will build your business. It will most likely take 3 or 4 single releases. It is a lot of hard work, but it gives you the possibility of building a business off which you can make a comfortable living.
BluesCorp, a rock’n blues-funk dance band from Australia’s Gold Coast, is rock’n on several BBC networks and stations worldwide with release of their new single, ‘Rattle Me’. This is BluesCorp’s second release with Musik Radio Promotions as ‘Who Do You Think Your Foolin’ was released several months ago.
The band was formed in 2010 by guitarist/singer/songwriter Andrew Clark, as a project for developing his own original music. Andrew’s trademark warm, earthy guitar tones, combined with his intimate and emotive vocal deliveries are the heart and soul of the BluesCorp sound. He creates a real rush of energy in his music and has been a “white boy lost in the blues” since his first working band – a 1977 project with blues guitarist Andrew Silver (Dynamic Hepnotics).
In April 2012, Andrew decided to completely rebuild the BluesCorp live band as a 4-piece line-up ahead of returning to the studio for the second album. The new line-up, featuring Jason Klaffer (bass), JJ Otene (drums) and Ben Ferguson (guitar/keys/sax) brought with it a fresher and decidedly funkier sound. Additionally, Andrew also recruited some additional players to rotate in the line-up as circumstances dictated.
Regular live appearances from guests Matt “Harp Dog” Dunn (harmonica), Steve Sinclair (guitar), Brian Elliott (sax), Gil Rasmussen (drums) and Paul Sumner (harmonica/percussion) resulted in contributions from each of them in the studio for the 2013 BluesCorp album release “Don’t Wanna Be Famous”.
“Don’t Wanna Be Famous” has been released to rave reviews:
“The Blues Association of South East Queensland (BASEQ) has selected BluesCorp’s 2013 album “Dont Wanna Be Famous” as it’s nomination in the “Best Self-Produced CD” category for the upcoming International Blues Challenge awards to be held in Memphis early next year.”- Blues Association of South East Queensland (Oct 16, 2013)
“From the start to the end of the album ‘Don’t Wanna Be Famous‘, my foot was a tapping. BluesCorp has delivered a cracking CD. This CD will be in the charts for many weeks and on high rotation on the Fatman Blues show on Southern FM”.- Mick Todd, Fatman Blues, Radio 88.3 Southern FM (Mar 15, 2013)
“Just got hold of the latest release from Bluescorp. This is one that makes you want to play it again and again. A great sound mix with quality production laced with sax and harmonica full of soul ,and a killer guitar tone.”- Barry Maxwell, Blues On The Hill, Radio 3NRG 99.3 FM (Mar 07, 2013)
“Smooth, low down contemporary blues at it’s best.” – Dave Barker, Dave’s Blues Mix, StarFM Radio 98.5 (Mar 04, 2013)
Musik Radio Promotions is proud to present such a seasoned, well-polished band to world-wide radio.
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Rootsy rockn’roll, tinged with blues & alt-country, from Australia, Little Rain pulls you into the emotion, pathos & life of Steve Roach’s songs brought to life by Australia’s fiddle legend Marcy Taylor, great guitar licks & Steve’s evocative vocals. Guitarist Adam Roach on lead guitar is one of the best players to come out of Melbourne. Multi instrumentalist Christopher Sprake plays guitar, keys , percussion and drums. Journeyman bassist Mark Nolasco and talented and eclectic drummer Matt Laing keep it all in a line, with Richard De Kleyn on Piano. Keeping it in the family is Ebony Roach, Steve Roach’s daughter, and Kristy Mellish, his sister. Sarah Clarke, a regular face on television and stage rounds out the threesome on backing vocals.
Little Rain has just released their second album A Long Time Coming following the successful The Revelation, which saw the band get signed to USA record company Musik and Film Records.
Musik Radio Promotions has recently released the singles, Darkness and Salvation, to worldwide radio. The response has been enormous, with the largest radio network in world immediately picking up the band for airplay, The BBC.
Playing an eclectic mix of Rock, Alt-Country, Blues, Folk and Americana, Steve Roach and Little Rain always make you feel you’re hearing something new, but familiar at the same time. Soulful, gutsy, Rockn’roll.