We were lucky to catch up with Stephanie C recently and have shared our conversation below.

Hi Stephanie , thanks for joining us today. Alright, so you had your idea and then what happened? Can you walk us through the story of how you went from just an idea to executing on the idea

Getting into the music business was not my actual plan. I wanted to be a restaurant owner and went to school for restaurant management. As a young child I was separated from my family and put into the system and all my siblings was split up. About 27 years later we reconnected via Facebook in 2016 and also found my mom. One of my brothers was always freestyle on Facebook and we started bonding over music. The more I got into it, I started watching music shows trying to learn the business and then decided to go back to school to learn Artist management. So, safe to say my brother was my first Artist that I called myself managing. I started reaching out to different people in the industry to learn the business and a few people helped me such as CaRoc and Bryan Hood. Things was going good I was learning a lot had support from my family and we was bond strictly off the music. Me and my mom was not bonding well because I held some Resentment towards her because of her I was put in a system where I was abuse as a child and I just wanted her to take some responsibility for her part and I allowed that to stay between us. After a year of knowing my mom she went into a coma and fell in my while I was driving and never woke up she dead from a Animism. The night before she died she told me I was her Music Queen and she was proud of me and that was all she left me with. I went full force into the music industry and let’s say it was not easy! I went thru a lot of people that was there just to take advantage of Artist and if you was not part of it then the industry was against you. At one time I was the most hated person because I spoke up about how the Artist was being scammed and we was allowing it to happen by being quiet because if we spoke up then we would be threatened to be blackballed. I became a voice for the independent Artist and didn’t care about backlash. During CoVID I moved to Atlanta to be closer to the music scene and went back to school to get my Business consultant license and on September 4th 2023 I will officially open Limelight Music Academy a creative space for Artist while teaching them the proper way to be successful in the music business.

As always, we appreciate you sharing your insights and we’ve got a few more questions for you, but before we get to all of that can you take a minute to introduce yourself and give our readers some of your back background and context?

My main focus is Artist development. I believe in taking things back in the day where Artist were really developed and people took their time and made real music. I also have a license in consultant and during Covid since I was able to have contact with anyone, I was able to do phone consultation which was very successful.

How’d you build such a strong reputation within your market?

What help build my reputation in the music industry was when I spoke up about a known scammer in the industry. Being new the industry the last thing you want to do was make enemies and since the music industry circle was so small you definitely didn’t want to make enemies with major Artist or with “Gatekeepers” and some how I did just that!……In the area I lived it wasn’t a lot of resources for Independent Artist. Anyone that was connected to one major or had a little pull in the industry. Artist would give up all their money for a opportunity that clearly wasn’t going to help them. This was forcing young desperate Artist to take to the streets to have money to gave up just to be scammed at the end. I started speaking up about it and was attacked for doing so via social media and people was told not to work with me. They made fun of me for having cancer , made post about me on Facebook calling me out my name and I was by myself taken it on. I had warn everyone not to do a tour that they was charging $1500 for and nobody listene because I was label “bad for business”. The next day after the “tour” early in the morning my phone was going off. The person I had warn everyone about had left 30 Artist stranded in Atlanta with no transportation or hotel. Long story short I Orchestra and raise money to get every single Artist home. After that my name and reputation spreading within the Independent Market as being a honest and good person to work with

Where do you think you get most of your clients from?

Instagram and word of mouth been the best source.

Contact Info:

• Instagram: Limelight_music_consultant
• Facebook: Stephanie Limelight

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