If so we could use your help making the grocery money!
Did you know:
According to Spotify, the artist receives a payout somewhere between 6 tenths of one cent up to 8.4 tenths of a cent ($.006 and .0084) per "stream" of that artists music?
It depends on the agreement between the artist and Spotify, but that being said you'd need well over a million "hits" listened to for a minimum of 30 seconds to count as a "stream" to make your pay off of $6,000. That's not too good for over 1,000,000 streams of ones music.
Here's how you can help: during your listening process please consider doing a search for Suzi Stern and stream some of my tracks. They were all lovingly crafted and the brilliant musicians on every track would be honored to know that the music is being heard. The perk for me will be getting a check from CD baby for Spotify and Pandora streams.
It might bring in enough $ to take George out to dinner or put a little bit of gas into our hybrid Volt...and knowing that the music is indeed being heard makes me happy.
Let me know what you think about the tracks.
What you'd like to hear more of?
Share your listening habits with me.
I'm curious about what works and what doesn't and how jazz musicians can keep making a living with out necessarily touring and selling T-shirts and the merchandise that goes along with that route.
If you still actually listen to physical CD's I have 8 releases to date that can be purchased on Amazon.com or cdbaby.com or Viewpointrecords.com or visit my website where there are sound samples so you can make an informed decision!
www.suzistern.com
Thanks for reading all of this and considering locating and listening to my tracks!
I am so grateful to all of you beautiful music lovers.
Musically Yours,
Suzi
Time off from work with my grandson!
Teaching a clinic in Pasadena. This continues to be such a joy! Helping aspiring singers find their voices!
Another wonderful outlet recently: Singing with the new music orchestra "decisive Instant" in L.A.
I keep writing and recording...so far it's not making us rich but it's part of this unstoppable process!
My involvement as assistant director of Lulufest in Austin Texas is so important to me. Meeting and working with remarkable women like Jane Bunnett and Maqueque from Cuba, Ingrid Jensen, Allison Miller, Dawn Clement, Emily Gimble, Helen Sung, Carrie Rodriguez to name only a few. I'm stoked about Lulufest 2020 where the line up will be equal inspiring.
More joys of being a working musician: Networking with ridiculously talented and wonderful women like pianist / composer Peggy Stern, Jazz vocalist / composer Jay Clayton and saxophonist / composer Claire Daily.
