MANAGING MUSOS NOT MODELS THE LIFE AND TIMES OF FEMALE MUSIC MANAGERS.

Hey Ms Music Manager! (from left) Sharon Osbourne, Janet Billig Rich, Cheryl Bogart and Erin Beck

I’m going to kick off by saying that this was the hardest blog so far to research. There seems to be less on the Internet about women music managers than women music producers. But here are the few women music managers I did manage to find out about.

Denise Stiff managed both the musicians Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch. It is interesting to note that Denise Stiff was also the executive music producer of the film ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou?’ where both Alison Krauss and Gillian Welch featured on the soundtrack including singing a couple of the songs together! (But then I haven’t come across a soundtrack from a Coen Brothers movie that isn’t totally awesome!)

Before Kris Jenner hit our airwaves there was reality TV rock matriarch Sharon Osbourne. After successfully managing her husband Ozzy Osbourne’s career, she went on to start her own music management company, which she runs entirely on her own. Sharon Osbourne’s clients include Motorhead, Lita Ford and the Smashing Pumpkins.

Janet Billig Rich is another lady manager who started her own music management and production company Manage This! in New York during the early 90s. Manage This!’s music clientele includes or has included Lisa Loeb, Courtney Love and Hole, Guided By Voices, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion and many more.

Cheryl Bogart is another female music manager who has started her own management company, Spider Artists Management. Unfortunately I have never heard of any of the acts that this company manages.

And then there’s Erin Beck who has worked closely with the band LMFAO including being the band’s publicist and working as their sales manager on their 2011 tour.

And if you were to ask me who my favourite lady band manager is well then I would have to say Summer from the School of Rock movie!