A Conversation with Sony Music Producers

Date
Thursday, January 14, 2021
7:00-9:00PM PST

Remote/Virtual Location
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About the Speakers
Bruce “Automatic” Vanderveer & Ebony Rae Vanderveer are co-owners of InRage Entertainment—a multi-genre, full-service entertainment company with a focus on artist development in Los Angeles. Producing The team has been working in K-pop since 2012 starting with their first collaboration with K-pop idol XIA JUNSU and his first English release, Uncommitted. The video for Uncommitted debuted at #1 in Korea and China and held the #1 spot on charts worldwide. His second collaboration with XIA, Incredible, debuted at #1 on Japan’s Tower Records Charts and iTunes charts and it debuted at #5 on Billboard’s World Album Charts. Rock The World and Twice’s I’m Gonna Be A Star, co-written by the Vanderveers have both gone on to top charts and become fan favorites in Asia and abroad.

Automatic got his start in production working directly with Michael Jackson and MJJ Records having developed female R&B group, Brownstone and hip hop duo Quo. He was also an apprentice under songwriting and production team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, and had a production deal with their label, Perspective Records/A&M. Automatic has worked with artists such as Pink, Pussycat Dolls, Nicole Scherzinger, Christina Aguilera, Cher, James Brown and Raven Simone. He has produced songs for Interscope, Polygram, RCA, A&M Records, Prospective, Morgan Creek, Fox Searchlight, American Airlines and the WB Television Network. Ebony has worked with The Dream, Cristina Milian, Floetry and Aaron Neville. As a magna cum laude alumna of USC’s Thornton School of Music, she has presented her research on gospel music at Yale University. The duo is currently focused on developing artists for InRage Entertainment and growing their team of A&R's for the company. You can learn more at www.InRage.com or www.instagram.com/inrageent.