European Talent Broker is an independent company within the Swedish music industry. Our main activities are to exclusively represent record-artists as tour agents, tour producers and/or as management. The company represents 10 artists today. (enclosure: roster) History/ The company Siljemark Production was founded by Lars Telbrant and Jonas Siljemark in 1992 and grew to one of the bigger agency’s in Europé within it’s niche during the 1990s, with clients such as Ace of Base, Dr Alban, E-type, Haddaway,
Culture Beat, Rednex, Lutricia McNeal and many more. During the autumn of 1997 Siljemark Production merged with Sweden based United Stage and formed one of the largest agency’s in Scandinavia called United Stage Artists 2001. Lars Telbrant sells his stocks in United Stage and founds the new agency and management company European Talent Broker AB Geographic/ The Company is situated in Rosersberg just outside of Stockholm, Sweden, its focus is on the World wide market Activity/ European Talent Broker is a service company for its client.
The agency part of the company’s responsibilities include…
* Booking tours and concerts
* Economising the project
* Renting of technical equipment / hiring of personnel
* Arranging travel, transport and accommodation
* Project direction and co-ordination
* Sponsorships
* Consultation in general management with the project
* Consultation in marketing and copyright legislation
* Consultation with record companies.
Current Roster/
ALCAZAR / Top 3 in Germany, Top 2 in Italy, Top 13 in UK etc during 2001 with the song “Dancing in the discoteque”
ARMY OF LOVERS / New album out “Le Grand docu-Soup”
BOBBY FARRELL / Former member of Boney M with more than 150 million sold units and hits like “Daddy Cool”, “Sunny, Ma Baker”, “Rivers of Babylon”, “ Rasputin”
and many more. Bobby is currently working in the studio on his new album together with parts of the “Army of Lovers/Alcazar/Vacuum” production team. This is something to look up for.
BOSSON / Top ten in 10 country’s in Europé with the song “One in a million”
DEE / The sidekick of E-type has gone solo, now with two released singel’s in the luggage. The new upcoming singel is the titel team from the American movie “Blade”
DR ALBAN / World wide mega star with over 11 million albums sold. Hits: “Its my life” “Sing halleluja”, “Hello Africa”, “No coke” and many more.
LUTRICIA MCNEAL / 1,2 million of the debut album “My side of town” and 1,5 million of the first singel “ Aint it just a way” sold throughout the world. New album released during 2002 partly produced by Brian Rawling (Tina Turner, Cheer, Enrique Iglesias etc.)
REDNEX / Number 1 in the German chart for 10 weeks with the song “spirit of the hawk” autumn 2000. Other hits “Cotton eye joe”, “Old pop in an oak”, Wish you where here”. New singel of the upcoming album is released during march 2002
RICHI M / Released his debut album 1998 and the second album “Songs of tomorrow” the year after. Both of them top 20 in the Swedish chart and was also nominated to the Swedish Grammy Award in the category of “Modern dance”. Richi M makes us dance. A few people are born to make people dance and he is one of them. The first singel of the new album will be released soon.
VACUUM / Biggest territory’s, Scandinavia and Russia. Biggest hit: “II breathe”
Specialization / Dance & pop oriented festivals
Rantarock festival in Vaasa Finland
Beat machine festival / Beiruth, Dubai
Gorgy park dance festival / Moscow / 150 000 in the audience/
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