Chris Swanson
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Chris Swanson is the co-founder of Secretly Group.[1] He also co-runs Secretly Distribution[2] which distributes for record labels globally.[3]
In 2011, Swanson co-founded the artist management company Fort William Artist Management, with Ami Spishock, Ben Swanson and Darius Van Arman.[4]
In June 2019, Swanson was listed on the "Indie Power Players" list by Billboard magazine.[5] He was also an executive producer on several Rick Alverson films, including Entertainment (2015), starring Michael Cera and John C. Reilly.[6] Swanson continued his work in film by music supervising projects from Joe Swanberg, including: Drinking Buddies, Happy Christmas, Win It All, and three seasons of the Netflix series Easy. He also music supervised two seasons of the Amazon series, One Mississippi, as well as the Emmy-winning docuseries Wild Wild Country, created by Chapman and Maclain Way. His latest music supervision projects include Brett Haley's All The Bright Places and Hearts Beat Loud films, Jeff Tremaine's Mötley Crüe biopic, The Dirt, the Dare Me series for USA Network, and A Teacher, a new series for FX. In February 2020, Chris Swanson and Joe Rudge received a Guild of Music Supervisors Award for best music supervision- television movie for 'The Dirt'.[7]
Chris Swanson attended Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana in the mid-1990s and was a part of the college radio station WIUX.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Not So Secret: The Winding Path Of Preeminent Record-Label Executive Chris Swanson".
- ^ "Secretly Canadian and Jagjaguwar Founders On Celebrating 25 Years and Moving Beyond 'The Sound of White Male Depression'". Billboard.
- ^ "Chris Swanson, Founder of Secretly Canadian Records".
- ^ "Fort William Artist Management Welcomes Three Managers - Music Connection Magazine". www.musicconnection.com. 16 December 2015.
- ^ "Billboard's 2019 Indie Power Players: The Execs Behind Drake, John Prine, Lauren Daigle and BTS". Billboard.
- ^ "Sundance Film Review: 'Entertainment'". 24 January 2015.
- ^ "'Once Upon a Time… in Hollywood' Honored at Guild of Music Supervisors Awards". Billboard.
- ^ "Secretly Canadian Co-Founder Chris Swanson Looks Back on the Label's First 25 Years". www.variety.com. 21 April 2021.