meet our team
Liza Lee
Co-CEO, Founder
Background: Born in Reading, PA. NYC, based for 20+ years. 15 years of grinding and growing in the Artist Management and Development game.
Best Musical Moment: I can't pick just one, so in no discernable order - Hanging with Naughty By Nature and them performing a set with The Roots at The Roots Picnic. - Watching my up-and-coming artist open for Nas. - Anytime I get to eat at Basta Pasta with Whoo Kid. - Whenever new music from Kevin Andreas showed up in my inbox. - The day a client got an EMMY nomination! - Being in the studio with F.Stokes and Bastille in London. (Love you, Polly.)
Favorite TV Shows: Lovecraft Country, I May Destroy You, 1899, Julia, Power, Hart of Dixie, Game of Thrones, Succession, The Diplomat, Rome
I Bet You Didn't Know: I love David Bowie more than anything else in life, but if you do know me, you do already know that.
Brian Waller
Co-CEO, Manager
Background: Born and Raised in Brooklyn, NY. 8+ years of music industry experience specializing in artist management and development.
Best Musical Moment: Being involved with the Juneteenth movement with former client Niko Brim. Working with Ms. Opal Lee, the mother of the Juneteenth movement, we collaborated with Serato to make a commemorative shoe that ended up being added to the first-ever hip-hop public auction. After setting a petition record for the movement, we attracted enough awareness that Juneteenth was added to the federal calendar the following year.
I Bet You Didn't Know: I played professional baseball for a short amount of time in Puerto Rico.
I Got Into The Music Industry Because: I was determined and persistent. I also have a work-hard mentality that keeps me humble so that I never feel like any task is beneath me.
Olivia Gonzalez
Senior Director of SYNCWELL Licensing
Background: Born in San Francisco, based in New Orleans. Loyola University New Orleans graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Popular and Commercial Music and Industry. Professional musician, songwriter, accompanist, and private instructor in piano, voice, cello, ukulele, and music theory.
Best Musical Moment: Seeing Billy Joel and Stevie Nicks perform “Stop Dragging My Heart Around” in Nashville. Two of my favorite musical icons performing an iconic song? Say less.
My Hobbies Include: songwriting, playing anything and everything on the piano, reading, drawing, painting, and rereading the Lord of the Rings for the millionth time.
Greatest Memory: Gavin Bennett from Bad Suns saving and listening to my EP.
Nicole Trampin Abrantes
Artist Manager
Background: Born and raised in Brazil, with a deep passion for music. Arts and Entertainment Management major at Pace University, NYC, and completing a professional program in Artist Management at Berklee College of Music.
Best Musical Moment: The new album "Escandalo Intimo" of the Brazilian artist Luisa Sonza, a perfect mixture of feelings and sensations.
Favorite Food: Sushi or french fries
How I Unplug: Listening to my favorite R&B playlist and lighting a candle