~ Can Music Make You Sick?

SALLY ANNE GROSS - THE IMPACTS OF BEING A MUSIC ARTIST ON MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.

Can music make you sick? Is being a music artist detrimental to a musician's wellbeing and mental health? What are the impacts of saturation caused by the digital age on the music maker and the consumer?

⁠Sally Anne Gross⁠ is both a music industry practitioner and an academic who in 1993 was the first women to work as an A&R manager at Mercury Records and in the same year she chaired the first ever panel on women in the music industries at ‘In The City’ music conference in Manchester.

She was also a founder member of Out on Vinyl the first ever UK record label for the LGBTQ community. Sally Anne has been working in the music industry for three decades as an artist manager, record label director and international business affairs consultant.

In her current role at the University of Westminster, she is the program director of the MA in Music Business Management where she teaches Intellectual Property and Copyright Management, Artist & Repertoire and Music Development.

In 2016 she founded ‘⁠Let’s Change the Record⁠’ a project that focuses on bridging the gender divide in music production by running inclusive audio engineering and song writing workshops for people identifying as women or non-binary.

Sally Anne is interested in working practices in the music industries and the conditions of digital labour and specifically how they impact on questions of diversity, equality and mental health.

VOICE CHOICE Listen to Sally’s favourite vocal performance ‘Nothing Compares To You' by Sinead O'Connor on the VocalScope Podcast Guests Playlist on Spotify: ⁠https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4pjclKQVRnnUnMW0vgu0H0⁠