A TASTE OF RAINMAKERS:
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David Byrne and Diane Warren have noms as well. (1/24a)
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Sisters doin' it for themselves (1/24a)
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The astonishing first half-century of a world-rocking genre.
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in the catalog game is...
INDIE BREAKOUTS
More independent music rises at the DSPs.
THE GOP CONGRESS
At last, America can focus 24/7 on Hunter Biden's laptop.
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WHAT IT IS: Pegged as one of the most mysterious men in music, Rayman has been praised for his genre-bending style, with the Bible hailing his ability to “fuse R&B swagger with hip-hop grit all while spinning compelling stories much like a country artist.” The arrival of five-track EP Courtney last November follows 2017’s R&B-leaning LP, Roadhouse 01, which focused on the artist’s dark alter-ego. Rayman’s racked up an impressive 70m+ streams on digital platforms since his first release and had one of the most-played songs on Alt radio in Canada in 2017 with track “13.” Currently, “13” can be heard throughout California as a sync for the California Lottery.
ALBUM: TBA
RELEASE DATE: Fall 2018
SINGLE: New single coming this summer
LIVE: Recently completed 35-date headline tour in the fall, selling out venues across U.S., Canada, Europe and U.K.; summer festival run will cover Napa’s Bottlerock, Montreal’s Osheaga, Cincinnati’s Bunbury, more TBA; fest perfor-mances last summer at ACL, Bonnaroo, Lollapalooza, others
INTERNET: 500k Spotify monthly listeners; 18k Facebook likes, 20k Instagram likes
RADIO: Top 5 Alt Commercial Radio in Canada
PRESS: Paper (“Songwriter and powerhouse vocalist Allan Rayman is on the verge of shaking the music industry to its core”); included on Elton John’s Beats 1 show
BOOKING: Adam Sylvester Worldwide/UTA
PUBLISHING: Allan Rayman
MANAGEMENT: Logan Kearns