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NEW SIGNINGS & NEW MUSIC

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works with agency partners to compile a monthly playlist of new music, much of it released by the new additions to their rosters. Among the tracks on May’s playlist are submissions from ATC Live, CAA, ICM Partners, ITB, Mother Artists, Paradigm, Primary Talent, UTA, and WME.

LIRAZ (IL)

AGENT André Marmot

Earth Agency

IMANBEK (KZ)

AGENTS Paul McQueen

Primary Talent;

Simon Clarkson & Paul Gongaware

ICM Partners

© Ronen Fadida F or Liraz’s second album, Zan (‘Women’ in Farsi), she collaborated online with composers and musicians from Iran, meaning everything had to be secretive to avoid the gaze of Tehran’s mullahs and secret police.

Her family, Iranian Jews, moved to Tel Aviv in the 1970s, but Liraz always believed her culture to be Iranian. After moving to the US to act in several movies, she found a huge Iranian community in LA.

“There are a million Iranians there, so many I started to call it ‘Tehrangeles,’” she says. “I heard this music from before the revolution and I started to collect it. Some was by women who didn’t stop singing after the revolution, as they were supposed to do. I heard the courage in their voices. That made me realise I didn’t want to act, I wanted to sing.”

In 2018, Liraz released Naz, writing and singing in Farsi. When the album was done, she knew she wanted to take things even deeper – to work with Iranian musicians and let her music resonate further. As a result, Zan is underground music in the very best sense: true political pop with names withheld for safety. Clandestine collaborations that mix traditional Persian instruments, club beats and call-to-action melodies.

Having miraculously broken all possible music charts with his multi-platinum Roses remix, Imanbek Zeikenov (from Aksu in Kazakhstan) despite being just 20 has already changed the history of EDM by becoming the first Eastern European musician to enter the top 5 of the Billboard HOT 100. SAINt JHN’s single, Roses, remixed by Imanbek, was originally an unofficial upload to YouTube before he was signed by Russian label Effective Records in 2019. However, Imanbek won a Grammy for the remix.

Roses has clocked up more than one billion streams on Spotify and topped charts around the world, making Imanbek one of the most popular musical collaborators on the planet, with projects alongside the likes of Usher, Tory Lanez, Sean Paul, and DJs Marshmello, Don Diablo, Afrojack, Martin Jansen, VIZE, Zara Larsson, Trevor Daniel, Goodboys, Fetty Wap and more, while superstar J Balvin also joined the Roses remix bandwagon with his Latino Gang version.

ARTIST LISTINGS

1-800 GIRLS (UK) A1 x J1 (UK) ADELINE (FR) Allison Russell (CA) Angel Haze (US) Armand Hammer (US) ArrDee (UK) Astrid Canales (ES) Batida (AN/PT) Beren Olivia (UK) Brynn Elliott (US) Cashh (UK) Cassandra Jenkins (US) Cherym (UK) Coco & Clair Clair (US) Conor Albert (UK) Cookiee Kawaii (US) Deyaz (UK) Dreya Mac (UK) Ducks Ltd. (CA) Eddie Benjamin (AU) Editrix (US) English Teacher (UK) FEET (UK) Gaff (IE) Gaidaa (NL) General Levy (UK) GIRLI (UK) girlpuppy (UK) God’s Hate (US) Jason O’Regan, Earth Agency Max Lee, Earth Agency Beth Morton & James Wright, UTA Rob Challice & Olly Hodgson, Paradigm Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent Serena Parsons, Earth Agency Craig D’Souza, Primary Talent Felipe Mina Calvo, ATC Live Clementine Bunel, Paradigm Ryan Penty, Paradigm Nick Matthews, Paradigm Craig D’Souza, Primary Talent Alice Hogg & Will Church, ATC Live Olivia Sime, ITB Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent Steve Nickolls & James Wright, UTA Sally Dunstone, Primary Talent Alex Hardee, Paradigm Sam Gill, Earth Agency Guillaume Brevers, Hometown Talent Noah Simon, UTA Graham Clews & Sarah Besnard, ATC Live Matt Bates, Primary Talent Skully Sullivan-Kaplan, ATC Live Nikos Kazoleas & James Osgood, UTA Kevin Jergenson, ICM Partners Darren James-Thomas, FMLY Agency Rob McGee, FMLY Agency Graham Clews & Will Church, ATC Live Tom Taaffe, Paradigm

HOTTEST NEW ACTS

APRIL 2021

THIS MONTH LAST MONTH ARTIST

1 17 YOUNG STONER LIFE (US) 2 21 YOT CLUB (US) 3 - BIG SCARR (US) 4 1 MIMI WEBB (UK) 5 11 SOFAYGO (US) 6 22 POUTYFACE (US) 7 5 MASKED WOLF (AU) 8 - LAURA LES (100 GECS) (US) 9 34 DRY CLEANING (UK) 10 - IAMDOECHII (US) 11 30 TAI VERDES (US) 12 10 SPOTEMGOTTEM (US) 13 6 A1 X J1 (UK) 14 29 FRED AGAIN.. (UK) 15 9 CENTRAL CEE (UK)

PREDICTIONS FOR MAY 2021

CHLOE GEORGE (US), MOOSKI (US), PARIS TEXAS (US), LAKEYAH (US), DAINE (AU) Artists not in the current top 15, but growing quickly Gotts Street Park (UK) Here at Last (UK) Indigo De Souza (US) Jerro (BE) Joe Turner (UK) Kassa Overall (US) Kessler (UK) Kinkajous (UK) L’Objectif (UK) Le Couleur (CA) Sam Gill, Earth Agency Ryan Penty, Paradigm Matt Pickering-Copley, Primary Talent Kevin Jergenson & Paul Gongaware, ICM Partners Michael Harvey-Bray & Cris Hearn, Paradigm Naomi Palmer, Earth Agency Michael Harvey-Bray, Paradigm Darren James-Thomas, FMLY Agency David Exley, Paradigm Rob McGee, FMLY Agency

Lea Heart (IE) Linda Diaz (US) Lucy Gooch (UK) Malady (UK)

Alex Hardee, Paradigm James Wright, UTA Dave Jennings, Art & Industry Matt Bates, Primary Talent MPH (UK) Lauren Kaye, Earth Agency Nix Northwest (UK) Felipe Mina Calvo & Marlon Burton, ATC Live Opus (UK) Danny Misell, Earth Agency Oscar Welsh (UK) Andy Clayton, Paradigm Phoenix Laoutaris (UK) Max Lee, Earth Agency Poutyface (US) Noah Simon & Jules de Lattre, UTA Ratboys (US) Graham Clews, ATC Live Reuben Gray (UK) Sol Parker, Paradigm Rosehip Teahouse (UK) Nikos Kazoleas, UTA Rosie Alena (UK) Roxane Dumoulin & Sarah Joy, ATC Live Sophia Kennedy (DE) Roxane Dumoulin, ATC Live Spirit of the Beehive (UK) Graham Clews, ATC Live Tanerélle (US) Kevin Jergenson, ICM Partners Tarzsa (UK) Alasdair Howie, FMLY Agency Teenage Halloween (US) Ed Sellers, Primary Talent The Rills (UK) Steve Taylor, ATC Live Theon Cross (UK) Darren James-Thomas, FMLY Agency Tiberius b (CA) David Exley, Paradigm Touching Bass (UK) Alasdair Howie, FMLY Agency Tygapaw (US) Simon Clarkson & Paul Gongaware, ICM Partners Visionist (UK) Peter Beer, FMLY Agency WheelUp (UK) André Marmot, Earth Agency