The music supervisor who was portrayed by Hint Adkins in I Can Solely Think about says expertise alone is not sufficient to reach Christian music and {that a} singer’s character and character play greater roles.
Scott Brickell, who helped MercyMe get its begin and who has labored with the largest names within the business, advised Christian Headlines that for each award handed out on the main exhibits, there are “so many extra gifted singers on the market that only for no matter cause it did not work.”
Brickell’s new ebook, The Enterprise Behind the Storm, is a behind-the-scenes how-to guide for singers and artists navigating the music enterprise.
“You gotta be the identical particular person onstage as you’re off stage. That is one of many issues that’s necessary to me,” Brickell advised Christian Headlines. “I do not subscribe to the, , [you] have an onstage persona, and [you’re] someone completely completely different offstage.”
Generally, he stated, artists are “amazingly gifted,” however they “cannot get together with individuals” or they are not a “good hold.”
“Expertise is not primary, for positive,” he stated.
His firm, Brickhouse Leisure, presently manages MercyMe, Micah Tyler, Mitchell Lee and Micah Christopher. It beforehand managed and consulted with artists resembling Audio Adrenaline, Switchfoot, Phil Wickham and Rend Collective.
His artists have reached greater than 50 No. 1 singles.
Brickell graduated from Baylor with a bachelor’s diploma in enterprise administration and obtained concerned within the Christian music business due to his ardour for music.
“What I’ve realized is that there are lots of people that come to city with the hopes and desires of being an artist, being a songwriter, being a producer or being a studio musician or a background vocalist,” he stated. “And I haven’t got any of these aspirations. I am only a enterprise man.”
Music, he stated, is a “key to your soul” that “nothing else can open.”
“Songs are time machines. They’ll take you again to once you had been a child. They’re virtually a form of scratch and sniff – , you possibly can scent smells [from] once you had been a child, once you hear a track.”
Christian music, Brickell stated, has a singular energy that different songs do not.
“I feel hope is one thing that all of us want,” he stated. “… Christian music can raise you up and form of make it easier to see across the nook the place possibly you possibly can’t see, and make it easier to get there to the place you possibly can see some daylight. That is what I’ve seen Christian music do for thus many individuals.”
Brickell and his firm have skilled – and survived – huge adjustments within the music business over the a long time. When he began, CDs had been the medium of selection. Even so, he stated, the music business stays largely the identical.
“I rise up each morning and ask God what I am purported to do right this moment,” he stated.
The music business, he stated, is “exhausting work,” identical to it was when he began.
“It is getting up, it is busting your can,” he stated. “It is returning cellphone calls, returning emails, and being diligent. Do not let issues fall by way of the cracks. Pursue each alternative. And that requires exhausting work and diligence. That is what it is all the time been. And that is what it in all probability will all the time be.”
Photograph courtesy: ©Simon and Schuster, used with permission.
Michael Foust has lined the intersection of religion and information for 20 years. His tales have appeared in Baptist Press, Christianity At present, The Christian Post, the Leaf-Chronicle, the Toronto Star and the Knoxville Information-Sentinel.
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