Robbie Hancock
CEO - Emotive Music
Robbie Hancock is a singer/songwriter, composer, producer and music supervisor with thousands of placements in film, television, documentary and commercials. Some of his recent songs and composer credits include music placed on NBC, CBS, ABC, BBC One, Netflix, Amazon Prime more credits …
Robbie recently did an interview with The Grammy Awards giving his take on sync licensing in today's modern music business. You can Learn more about the networking and educational community he owns and operates called Sync or Swim Music . The Sync or Swim Music community is led with kindness and empathy with inclusion and diversity at the forefront as a safe environment to connect, create and collaborate. It is community of songwriters, composers and producers focused on sync licensing wanting to learn how to place their music on TV, films, ads and other media through education and networking online.
Robbie has also been an industry pro mentor and is passionate about speaking on panels and giving back through industry pro mentor sessions with songwriters, composers and producers wanting to learn more about sync licensing. Some of these conferences and events include: The Hawaii Songwriting Festival, The Northwoods Songwriters Retreat, The Rifflandia Festival and The Hillside Festival.
He also offers services to give back and pay forward to others including coaching, mentoring, consulting, sync licensing workshops and masterclasses.
Dean Krippaehne
A&R - Emotive Music
Dean Krippaehne is and an award-winning songwriter and music producer with dozens of artist cuts including gold and platinum records with Universal Music’s recording artist, Stefanie Heinzmann. With over twenty years of experience in the Production Music business, Dean has garnered thousands of music placements on hundreds of TV shows, Films, Ads and Apps. His music can be heard on most every major network from ABC to Netflix, as well as in thousands of “environmental music” venues worldwide.
Some highlights include: Dancing with the Stars, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Parenthood, K-Pop Demon Hunters, Younger, Duck Dynasty, Vampire Diaries, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, The Today Show, The Kardashians, RuPaul’s Drag Race, NFL on CBS, Amazon, T-Mobile, and many, many more.
As a published author, Dean’s Best-Selling Production Music books include: “Demystifying the Cue,” and “Demystifying the Genre,” as well as, “Write, Submit, Forget, Repeat,” and “Cue Tips.” A speaker and mentor at various major music conferences, Dean has had the privilege of helping guide hundreds of composers and artists on their musical journey. Discovering a new song that just, “lands perfectly,” for sync, or a composer that superbly captures the essence of a mood or emotion in their work is, “the stuff I live for in this business.”
When Dean is not working in music he consults with the few diverse businesses he owns or is in partnership with. Dean and his wife currently reside in the greater Seattle area along with their dog, “Wasabi,” and cat, “Pippen.”
