Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Summer season Walker, Love Renaissance Information (LVRN) exec. vp/GM Amber Grimes and Atlantic Information senior director of A&R Sammye Scott are ASCAP’s 2023 Girls Behind the Music honorees. Introduced by the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul division, the 15th annual celebration will happen on Nov. 16 at The Atrium in Atlanta.
In a launch saying the 2023 honorees, ASCAP senior vp of membership and ASCAP Basis government director Nicole George-Middleton stated, “ASCAP Girls Behind the Music is such a particular occasion for us as a result of we get to acknowledge extremely gifted girls who’ve made an affect by way of their artwork, contributions and management whereas connecting in individual with our group. We’re proud that we are able to proceed this effort to encourage girls to pursue careers in music, whether or not they’re creatives or executives.”
Walker, whose 2018 breakthrough single “Ladies Want Love” has reached six-times platinum, launched her debut studio album Over It in 2019. The R&B challenge additionally featured the multiplatinum singles “Come Through” and “Enjoying Video games. She landed her first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 2021 sophomore set Nonetheless Over It and has since launched two EPs: Clear 2: Gentle Life and Ladies Want Love (Ladies Combine).
Grimes, who can also be a companion in LVRN MGMT, oversees the day by day operations of LVRN’s varied divisions in addition to the advertising methods for its artist roster. Previous to becoming a member of LVRN, she was senior vp of worldwide inventive at Capitol Music Group and earlier than that senior supervisor of artists & label advertising at Spotify, creating and executing campaigns for varied labels and artists similar to Migos, Lil Child and Paul McCartney. Grimes can also be CEO of her personal full-service advertising agency, The Cardi Model Company.
Earlier than segueing to Atlantic, Scott was president of A&R at BuVision. Throughout her Atlantic tenure, she has signed rising rap star Kaliii (breakthrough single “Space Codes”) and served as co-A&R on A Boogie wit da Hoodie’s 2018 double-platinum album Hoodie SZN.
Walker, Grimes and Scott will be a part of earlier ASCAP Girls Behind the Music honorees similar to Grammy-winning singer-songwriters Kandi Burruss and Kelly Rowland, Roc Nation label co-president Shari Bryant, Interscope Geffen A&M president of A&R Nicole Wyskoarko and hip-hop icons Salt-N-Pepa.
