Over a 12 months since increasing into Australasia, Los Angeles-headquartered expertise administration firm Milk & Honey introduced that it’ll begin providing scholarships within the US for Australian and New Zealand feminine writers and producers.
The brand new scholarship program will begin in February 2023 and recipients will have the ability to stay, work and create music in Los Angeles for 2 months.
They may even be given assured entry to Milk & Honey’s roster and in-studio classes throughout their Los Angeles residency, the corporate stated this week.
Milk & Honey named Sydney-based Chelsea Warner, a producer, songwriter, vocalist and multi-instrumentalist who specializes within the R&B, pop and hip-hop genres, as the primary recipient of the scholarship program.
She has collaborated with Australian artists like Emalia, Tentendo and Vetta Borne.
By way of the scholarship, Warner will work alongside producer/songwriter Oak Felder and Jenna Andrews, who would be the mentors for the inaugural 12 months of this system.
Felder has labored with artists like Demi Lovato, Lizzo, Kehlani, Alicia Keys and John Legend, whereas Andrews has labored with BTS, Noah Cyrus and David Guetta.
Milk & Honey says that it launched this system to assist world writers and producers who journey to Los Angeles within the hopes of touchdown collaborative studio classes with established writers, artists and producers. The corporate will likely be offering monetary help and entry to its crew to recipients of the scholarship.
“We’re extraordinarily excited to supply this distinctive scholarship to empower superb feminine producer expertise from Australia and New Zealand and plan to supply this on a perennial foundation.”
Lucas Keller, Milk & Honey
“We’re extraordinarily excited to supply this distinctive scholarship to empower superb feminine producer expertise from Australia and New Zealand and plan to supply this on a perennial foundation.
“We stay up for serving to to raise these younger skills on the worldwide stage as they arrive to work with our nice inventive groups on the Milk & Honey workplaces in Los Angeles, Nashville and London,” stated Lucas Keller, President and Founding father of Milk & Honey Music + Sports activities.
Keller created the scholarship alongside Milly Petriella, Managing Director of Milk & Honey Australasia, and Peter Coquillard, Head of Worldwide at Milk & Honey.
It’s considered one of Petriella’s first initiatives as Managing Director of Milk & Honey’s Australasian crew as her precedence is growing a stronger feminine presence within the Australasian author/producer neighborhood, the corporate stated.
“Lower than 20% of our business is feminine and the variety of girls in manufacturing is significantly much less, it’s time to create actual experiences, connections, and supply monetary assist if we’re to actually going to vary the long run panorama of the music business. Those that have the sources and capability can actually step up and make a significant contribution,” Petriella stated.
Peter Coquillard added: “It’s been a spotlight of our firm and shoppers for a while to seek out an efficient strategy to promote feminine producers. We’re thrilled that Milly has taken the lead and introduced this incentive to fruition.”
The launch of the scholarship comes as Milk & Honey celebrates its eighth 12 months in enterprise.
Keller based Milk & Honey Music + Sports activities in Los Angeles in 2014 and it has since expanded to London, New York, Nashville, Dallas, Amsterdam, and Australasia. Its sports activities division is an company and advertising firm representing over 20 athletes within the NFL.
The corporate’s music division represents a roster of songwriters and producers like David Hodges, Oak Felder, Sir Nolan, J. White Did It, Noah Goldstein, Jenna Andrews, Jamie Hartman, Andrés Torres and Mauricio Rengifo, in addition to prime 20 world DJs like Oliver Heldens, Benny Benassi and extra.
Milk & Honey Music has over 125 shoppers spanning each style of music. Its shoppers have had a few of the greatest world hits together with Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” BTS’ chart-topping “Butter,” Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito,” James Arthur’s “Say You Gained’t Let Go,” and extra.
Earlier this 12 months, the group launched Milk & Honey Labs, a digital inventive studio specializing in NFTs and all areas of Web3 representing blue chip model names in Hollywood.
