‘Ask Angelo’ Now Available
10/6/16 Good Reads Ahead…
…You’ve been sitting around scratching your head and arguing with yourself about what to get everyone during the upcoming holidays, and with such big fall & winter sales days pending.
What’s the ideal stocking stuffer? One that doesn’t smell like Axe™ this year or even something cheeky like Poo~Pourri™ but instead resonates with the cerebral senses.
You needn’t fret because Amazon has just officially published the riveting… page-turning… memoir-laced… industry go-to book for all seasons. What better way to resolve toward success in 2017 than with this valuable tome written by media master, Angelo Ellerbee.
Why, pray tell, would you want or need a 127 page book written by such an elegantly appointed PR guru?
- Because it tells you an important story, not just about the entertainment industry then and now but about the socio-cultural backdrop of significant music eras.
- It speaks to the struggling artist and their equally struggling handlers alike (and may even save their bacon).
- It talks directly to the directionless, manger-seeking upstart, while it reassures the talents long-held by industry vets reinventing their own.
- It educates any seeker who stands at the door of any business, all dressed for the show yet about to be given the business.
funny and succinctly brilliant. (Besides if NASA has now screwed up everyone’s astrological charts {click here if you missed that: http://the-daily.buzz/nasa-astrological-signs-changed/ }, does that mean we are all a month late on the new birth-day sentiments? If so, what a nice way to catch up with this compelling book, all wrapped up with the best of intentions.
He explains everything from his tenets of artist development; to why having an ‘OG’ who has been around the block on your team is a wiser choice. The book is cheeky, heartfelt, and at times poignant; other times knee-slappingly real-just like the man himself. It is a compact and nifty toolbox full of titanium nuggets that will add mettle to anyone wanting to know the ins and outs, while avoiding the ups and downs. This mind-stirring masterpiece shows why so many… like Mary J Blige asked Angelo… DMX asked Angelo… Dionne Warwick asked Angelo… Moreover, what his compelling answers can deliver to us all.
Excerpted from the Book:… Whether through interviews, shows, classes, lectures, or even my syllabus being used in university courses on artist development, I want to reveal another view of the ‘truth’. One that contains the five w’s of the entertainment industry-who you have to be inside, what zaniness you are up against, when not to make certain moves, where to invest your focus, and why you need to educate yourself. Maybe in the end you an add it all together to see how this business can be survived with your soul intact. It’s about getting in, staying in, and succeeding to whatever extent you are able, but only if you can hold YOU together.
…. I teach survival skills to my artists because I think that people need to know how to take care of themselves. Self-preservation is the first law of nature in a business where the laws are written in gold and blood. Many of us get it by what they call ‘paying dues’.
… He has to want it bad. You can want fame, money, and success but you have to want to LIVE too. Wanting it and doing the things consistent with it may not be the same action though. If you indulge in everything that is bound to kill you and also dump the stress of trying to make it on top, what are you odds even when you want it so bad?
… At some point I tell those urban hustler-turned-artists to put the 40 ounce beers down, sweep the blunts off your nightstand, tell your entourage to get the hell out, and get serious about making it even if you’re a young rapper starting out with no ‘dues paid’. Is there a future for them? Only time will tell but they have to make it out first. Live to tell the tale and rhyme another day. Therefore, I encourage artists in my workshops to apply the same drive my mother pushed into me-to survive because you have to. Not just because you need to keep the gravy train fed, but because life is to be lived for the artist long after he drops the mic.
Why settle for a nibble? Here… savor the whole plate
Beginning October 15th – Celebrity guests… community leaders, emerging artists… and YOU!(so call in 917-932-1078 and be welcomed into the conversation).
