Backstage Spotlight™
December 2003 Talent Agent Scott Pang
Scott Pang has worked in the music industry for 24
years and has been an agent at both ICM and William Morris. Artists he’s worked with
over the years include Rod Stewart, Barry Manilow, Diane Reeves, David Lee Roth, and many
others. Scott Pang was also the director of touring for the Ice Capades and Harlem
Globetrotters. Currently he is an agent at ICM.
MBADC: When you’re looking for new artists, where do you
usually look?
SP: There are a couple of places to look. You look at what is popular regionally
around the country. You’re not going to find the next major star in a club in Los
Angeles, but you may find them in a club in Charlotte North Carolina. But they will also
have established themselves as a good regional attraction in Charlotte North Carolina,
with a following. A regional attraction with a following leads to a national act with a
following; because if they’re good enough to get a regional following, they’re
sure as hell good enough to get a national following. And I think that may be a little of
the old fashioned way to do it, but that’s really where you’re going to find an
act with staying power. Everything else that can be manufactured in a studio, those types
of acts you’re going to find through an attorney or through a manager who may grab
something just on a lark and then get lucky.
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