Find Your Frequency

EKENE grew up in Lagos on gospel music and choir, moved through rap groups and poetry, and started sharing songs on Instagram because they needed somewhere to go. His debut EP Little Us is seven songs of genuinely...

Rob Sealy spent 30 years in insurance and financial services before he noticed something the music industry does that no other industry would tolerate: artists barely know who their fans are. So he co-founded Openstage...

Sissy Ford moved to London on her own at seventeen and has spent six years turning bedroom recordings into a catalogue with millions of streams. She's breaking right now, and this conversation catches her mid-climb...

Nicola Gunby is a two-time founder who built and sold a beauty marketplace before she turned thirty, then set out to fix a problem she couldn't shake... how hard it is to actually meet people and build real community in...

Katie Debrah started exactly where a lot of you are now. Making music, uploading it, hoping someone on the other side of a screen would care. She ended up on the inside, spending years at Google and YouTube shaping...

Keith Jopling has spent 25 years inside the music industry: IFPI, Sony, EMI, Spotify, MIDiA Research, sitting in the boardrooms and reading the data. He's the host of The Art of Longevity (80 episodes and counting) and...

David Ronan is the founder of RoEx, which builds tools that give artists the confidence to release their music: corrective mixing, mastering and audio cleanup that clears the technical hurdles so you can focus on the...

Max Busin is the founder of GoToBeat, the live music company on track for half a million tickets this year across 16 European countries. His pitch to artists is a simple one: tour with us and earn around 40% more than...

Maria Stavrou has been an optical engineer, a circus aerialist on three world tours, a therapist, and a festival producer. She's visited 52 countries and built everything from cabaret shows to 15,000-person events. The...

Lizzie Esau has gone from open mics in the Northeast to Radio One's Big Weekend and Glastonbury. No label. No viral moment. No shortcut. Just great music, relentless live shows, and zero-hour jobs to keep it all going...

Ibrahim Kamara gave Nines, Brent Faiyaz, and J Hus their first ever magazine covers. He built Guap, one of the UK's most influential creative platforms, from a camera and a student overdraft. It took six years before...

Chris Herbert put together the Spice Girls when everyone around him was telling him to make another boy band. He looked at the market, saw it was saturated, and went the other direction. He cast them like a TV show...

Matt Spetzler has closed over $5bn of music deals including Kobalt and Native Instruments. He now runs his own fund backing independent music companies. He's seen how the money flows from every angle, and he says most...

Josh Denzel went from a recruitment job he hated to presenting for the BBC, Sky, Amazon, and Netflix with over a million followers. He started by filming on Snapchat for seven people. Nobody handed him a microphone. He...

Fraser T. Smith has produced some of the most important records in British music. Gang Signs and Prayer with Stormzy. Set Fire to the Rain with Adele. Psychodrama with Dave. Black at the Brits. A Grammy, multiple Ivor...