Sound Advice: The Ultimate Guide to a Healthy and Successful Career in Music

Are you interested in learning how to cultivate sustainable success in the popular music industry whilst prioritising your health? If so, this book is for you. Inside you’ll find research-informed advice and information that aims to help musicians, as well as those that work with them, navigate their way through what can be a challenging and demanding industry. This book covers the mental and physical health problems research suggests musicians might come up against and offers lots of tools and techniques to help aid prevention. You’ll also find information about the structure of the industry, money management, and how to improve your skills as a performer, creator, and CEO of your career. Expect original interviews with leading researchers, health experts, business execs and a host of artists including Laura Mvula, Will Young, Imogen Heap, Wayne Hector, MNEK, Nina Nesbitt, Lauren Aquilina, Ella Eyre, Jonathan Higgs, Lady Leshurr, and many others. You’ll also find quotes and advice from a long list of established artists like Ed Sheeran, Lily Allen, Amanda Palmer, Matty Healy, Gary Numan, Billie Eilish, James Blake, Taylor Swift, Justin Bieber, George Ezra, Loyle Carner, Alicia Keys, Dave, and Mabel. Widely supported by some of the biggest companies in the music business, Sound Advice is the ultimate industry-backed guide for both seasoned professionals and those just starting their career. It has been produced with the generous support of Live Nation, Universal Music UK, Sony Music UK, Warner Music UK, IFPI, Spotify, Hipgnosis Songs, Vevo, PRS for Music, Polydor Records, and PPL.