Downtown-owned B2B distributor FUGA has promoted Renato Vanzella to Normal Supervisor, LATAM.
Previously FUGA’s Normal Supervisor of Brazil, Vanzella will oversee the entire firm’s enterprise actions within the LATAM area, together with Argentina, Brazil, Columbia, and Mexico.
In his new function, Vanzella might be liable for driving the distributor’s enterprise improvement efforts within the area, overseeing shopper relations, DSP accomplice relations and managing FUGA’s workforce.
He continues to report on to LA-based Sarah Landy, FUGA’s Senior Vice President for the Americas.
FUGA says that the announcement of Vanzella’s promotion follows a “string of profitable signings and campaigns” for FUGA in Brazil over the previous few years, led by Vanzella.
The corporate entered into a world distribution and advertising partnership with Londrina-based AgroPlay in 2022, which the corporate says, noticed AgroPlay’s artist, Ana Castela end 2023 with “the No.1 Artist rating” and No.1 tune on Spotify and YouTube Music in Brazil. Nosso Quadro has generated over 438 million streams on Spotify thus far.
Ana Castela is now nominated for a 2024 Latin Grammy award for Greatest Sertanejo Music Album, alongside FUGA shopper, Valetes Information, whose artist Gabriel Sater is nominated for Greatest Portuguese Language Roots Album.
Since becoming a member of FUGA as Enterprise Growth Supervisor in 2019 and his promotion to Normal Supervisor of Brazil in 2022, Vanzella has expanded FUGA’s workforce on the bottom throughout a number of disciplines, together with advertising, operations and YouTube administration.
Throughout his five-year tenure on the distributor, Vanzella has been liable for bringing on the nation’s key purchasers, together with Elemess, house to Home of Fresno, MC Tha and Jaloo, MJC Music, the label imprint of broadcast community RecordTV, Beeside Information, the brand new label from Bruno Martini and Rick Bonadio and Radar Information, who’s catalog contains releases from Charlie Brown Jr. , Nenhum de Nós, KLB, Edu Ribeiro and Pique Novo.
With a profession spanning over 15 years within the music trade, Renato Vanzella started as a advisor for creating artists and labels earlier than transferring into established roles together with as Normal Supervisor for Brazilian distributor, Movieplay the place he oversaw the Publishing, Label and Distribution divisions.
“His distinctive strategic imaginative and prescient and management have been instrumental in constructing a robust basis for FUGA in Brazil, and his influence now might be felt throughout all the Latin American area.”
Sarah Landy, FUGA
Sarah Landy, FUGA’s SVP of the Americas, mentioned: “Renato’s promotion to Normal Supervisor, LATAM is well-deserved. His distinctive strategic imaginative and prescient and management have been instrumental in constructing a robust basis for FUGA in Brazil, and his influence now might be felt throughout all the Latin American area.
“Renato persistently has demonstrated a deep understanding of the native music panorama, and his ardour for collaboration and shopper service has earned him the respect of our workforce and our companions. I’ve little question that he’ll proceed to drive compelling development and success in his new function, and I stay up for celebrating all of his achievements to come back.”
“To be main FUGA’s enlargement in LATAM is extraordinarily rewarding because it represents the popularity of laborious work, belief in management capabilities, and the chance to instantly affect the route and success of the group.”
Renato Vanzella
Renato Vanzella, Normal Supervisor of LATAM for FUGA added: “The final 9 years have seen important double-digit development within the LATAM area, pushed by digital revenues.
“The LATAM music trade affords a wealthy cultural heritage and a variety of genres that affect world traits and promote the expansion of the worldwide market.”
Added Vanzella: “To be main FUGA’s enlargement in LATAM is extraordinarily rewarding because it represents the popularity of laborious work, belief in management capabilities, and the chance to instantly affect the route and success of the group.
“I stay up for working in my new capability as Normal Supervisor, LATAM, persevering with to increase and consolidate the presence of artists and report labels in Latin America, adapting methods for a various and culturally wealthy market and making certain sustainable development and innovation within the sector.’
FUGA says that its shopper base in LATAM now exceeds 130 and stretches throughout genres from Sertanejo to Funk Brasileiro (Brazilian Funk), MPB (Música Widespread Brasileira), EDM and Forró genres in Brazil; Urbano, Cumbia, Rap and Lure in Argentina and Gospel, Vallenato, Salsa, Regional Mexican and Colombian Música Widespread in Colombia and Mexico.
Downtown says that it has seen a “important interval of development” in Müsica Mexicana and Latin Music, together with Downtown Music Publishing’s latest signing of Double P Information, the label and publishing arm based by George Prajin and Música Mexicana star Peso Pluma.
Downtown’s Artist & Label Providers additionally expanded its partnership earlier this yr with Kartel Music, whose shopper Luis R. Conriquez, hit No.1 on Spotify’s Prime Albums Debut with album Corridos Bélicos, Vol. IV.Music Enterprise Worldwide
