Speakers - UD Music

Tolu Elusadé, Analogue photographer

Tolu Elusadé is a Nigerian Londoner, visual artist, poet and curator of accessible and reflective creative spaces. For over five years, she has collaborated with prestigious clients, including Tate, Netflix,…

Samuel Adjaye – Multidisciplinary artist, filmmaker & creative director, swrv.studios

Samuel Yaw Adjaye is a multidisciplinary Artist, Filmmaker and Creative Director from Hackney, of both Ghanian and Italian descent. Samuel uniquely blends mediums together utilising skills in Graphic Design and…

Hyperfrank – Photographer, archivist, producer (TRENCH)

Nayana.AB – Artist, UD Progamme Associate & writer

Following a whirlwind 2024 – supporting RAYE with her Flames Collective crew at BBC Radio 1 Big Weekend, Reading & Leeds Festival, the BRIT Awards, a trip to Morocco for…

RBC – Progamming Manager

RBC is the programming manager at High Roller and puts talent (mostly DJs and musicians) forward for large scale events including Recessland and smaller parties. His love and understanding of music…

Lodina Agyeman – Project manager

Lodina Agyeman is the project manager at High Roller and regularly works on strengthening High Roller’s relationships with brands, just last month she supervised Recess’s takeover of Powis Square for…

Jojo Sonubi – Co-Founder, High Roller

Jojo Sonubi is the co-founder of High Roller and in charge of the company’s visual identity which is elevated by his background in graphic design. A staple of Jojo’s work…

SK – Co-founder/ A&R, Finesse Foreva

SK is one of the three co-founders of Finesse Foreva, a leading independent record label from Croydon, specializing in Drill, Trap, Rap, RnB, and Afro-swing. He has been instrumental in shaping the…

Mel Ijeh – Artist Manager (formerly A&R Manager, 5k Records)

Jay Radia – A&R at Relentless Records, Sony Music UK

Jay Radia is an A&R at Relentless Records. Initially studying at the Notting Hill Academy of Music, he has now worked in A&R for the last two years and has…

Adele White – Senior A&R Manager, Atlantic Records UK

Malika Ferguson – Sounds Write Consultancy

Malika Ferguson (known mononymously as Malika, previously Meleka) is a writer and topliner, with stylistic preferences ranging from Pop to Soul and R&B and over 300 million streams across her…

TK – Manager & Co-Founder, Finesse Foreva

TK is one of the three co-founders of Finesse Foreva, an independent record label based in Croydon, specializing in Drill, Trap, Rap, RnB, and Afro-swing. Known for developing chart-topping artists like…

Shanice McConnachie – Artist manager

Roxanne Oak – Relationship Manager for Dance Music Genres at PPL

Roxanne Oak is the Relationship Manager for Dance Music Genres at PPL, the UK-based collecting society for recorded music. With over a decade of experience in the music industry, Roxanne…

Paul Trueman- COO at un:hurd