In the world of the music business, there are truly singers who sing and singers who dont, along with talent booking agents who book and those that couldnt sell cotton candy at the circus. Is it drive, talent or a mystical combination of factors that create singers and talent booking agents, or is it yet the pure unexplainable? Lets look at some factors in this article as singers, looking to further their careers, try to find suitable representation.
As a former talent booking agent with the William Morris Agency, I can tell you that there are many factors that determine both effective agents and marketable singers and artists. While there are many explainable factors, there certainly is the element of luck, the right place at the right time and the Who knows, it just happened, phenomenon. Lets start with what we can determine and hopefully you will gain some insight into what effective booking agents look like and your securing one of them.
To begin with, there are many caliber of booking agents out there. As Ive outlined in a previous article on booking talent, that you can find at ReelMusician, there are the order taking agents who book mainly headline acts,...