Emmy Feldman

Senior Director, Creative A&R,
Sony Music Publishing

A moment in your career when you really backed yourself.

“I left my comfortable corporate job at 25 to go work behind the counter at a record store.

My formal musical education began there, where I played vinyl all day and asked my teachers (co-workers) to fill me in on the lore of each record and the musicians playing it.

The notes I took then laid the foundation for what would become a lifelong obsession with unearthing more talents like these with their own stories to tell.”

One thing you’re proud of in your career.

“I am proud to have been among the first to believe in some of my clients, to have been able to give them their first significant check for their art, to have empowered them to keep going.

I love the beginning. ”

Name another woman in music who inspires you, and why.

“My mentor and attorney, Gillian Bar.

In over a decade of friendship, she has never given me one bad piece of professional advice."