Some of my highlights with the magazine in 2015! Needless to say, it's been an incredible year with a lot of exciting opportunities - I hope to make 2016 even better. Take a look at the quotes and links below & let me know what your favorite is!
“I really enjoy problem solving, whether it’s an artist problem, a strategic problem, an employee problem. ... I enjoy deal making. I enjoy working with the labels. That’s the most fun part,” Anthony says of her current role as EVP of Recorded Music at UMG. Talking about her childhood, she remarks, "the Fillmore East and Gloria Steinham were the soundtracks to my teenage years."
Looking at the lack of females in the industry, Greenwald says "people like me that are in power [that can] move it forward, need to move it forward. It’s not something that you want to do, it’s something that you have to do."
"I'm really excited to see where [Light Up The Dark is] going to take me," Aplin says. "I was 100% happy with it when I finished recording it so anything else is an amazing bonus!"
Though she may have to go give Joan Baez a medal in Berlin or jet off for some similar adventure, she generally gets coffee, writes for a couple of hours, and is just "killing time until there's something good on TV."
Talking about her goals, Shorr said "I would be happy to either be the person in the arena singing the song, or be the person sitting in the front row watching someone else sing a song I wrote." No matter where she ends up, she knows she'll have the girls of Song Suffragettes out there championing women, as she says "I think it's just so important to have that culture of girls supporting each other in the industry."
Being in one of the first groups of CMT's "Next Women of Country," Ballerini notes, "people always say 'where are the women in country music?' and it was so awesome to be able to show them 'we are RIGHT here!'"