Nordic music export and the role of the manager

Owner, Camp Raven Management

Christian Taagehøj owns and runs the music company Camp Raven, which among other things works with management (Luster, Sleep Party People, Collider, and more), fundraising and strategic use of big data. As a manager Taagehøj works on a daily basis with a long list of labels, booking agents, promotors and media abroad. Taagehøj teaches regularly the Music Management course at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen.

ATC Management

Rasmus Damsholt finished his BA in Music Management from the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in 2016. Shortly hereafter he started his own management company with artists such as Chinah, Lowly and Sekuoia. In 2017 Rasmus started working with the British ATC Management, managing artists like PJ Harvey, Nick Cave, Faithless and many more. Today Rasmus runs ATC’s Nordic office in Copenhagen, while also continuing to manage his own artists, now also part of ATC.

Manager

Fulltime manager for both Phlake and School of X. Stefan has a past as head of talent with the biggest Nordic influencer and media house, Splay Networks, and is a former product manager with Warner Music Denmark. Besides his daily work with Phlake and School of X, Stefan is launching the new HOPS festival in May 2018, with him as co-founder as well as head of booking. Stefan has been taught Music Management at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen

Manager, Mandelbaum

Karen Norbakk is a manager at Mandelbaum with a background in music journalism. Mandelbaum represents artists such as Cashmere Cat, Bearson, Digitalism, Anna of the North, Rytmeklubben, Hasta and Jasper Harris, where Karen does management for the acts Digitalism, Jasper Harris, Hasta, Rytmeklubben (Hi Tom, Henrik the Artist, DJ Karaoke). She was also part of the elite program founded by Music Norway, and was part of the 20 under 30 music industry talent in scandinavia.

Nivy AB

Kristian Riffo started his career in the music business in 2010 as an intern at Sony Music Sweden. After almost a year in one of Swedens biggest labels he started working as a Creative Director for Fantabolous Music and artists such as Lazee and Norlie & KKV. After a couple of years as a Creative for Fantabolous Music, Kristian moved on and started working together with producer iSHi and his Publishing label 2Stripes Music. They worked with producers and songwriters such as Eric Turner, Dhani Lennevald, Charlie Bernardo and Jeff Roman. A lot of great songs came out from that label, Tinie Tempah’s hit song ’Written In The Stars’, Lupe Fiasco’s ’Stellar Light’ and Professor Green’s ’Read All About It’ ft. Emeli Sande, just to name a few. In 2014 Kristian Riffo, mostly known as ’Riffo’, decided to start his own label together with producer Jeff Roman. Their first signee was swedish rapper Denz. In a short amount of time they gained millions of streams and views. In late 2015, they started working with the young swedish rapper/singer Jireel. They started working independently and named the label ’Nivy’. Today Nivy has over 60 million streams on Spotify and 15 million views on Youtube. Jireel has won an award for ’Best New Artist’ at Grammis and ’Artist Of The Year’ at P3 Guld. Nivy just signed a joint venture deal with Universal Music Sweden.In 2014 Kristian Riffo, mostly known as ’Riffo’, decided to start his own label together with producer Jeff Roman. Their first signee was swedish rapper Denz. In a short amount of time they gained millions of streams and views. In late 2015, they started working with the young swedish rapper/singer Jireel. They started working independently and named the label ’Nivy’. Today Nivy has over 60 million streams on Spotify and 15 million views on Youtube. Jireel has won an award for ’Best New Artist’ at Grammis and ’Artist Of The Year’ at P3 Guld. Nivy just signed a joint venture deal with Universal Music Sweden.