Cyrille Aimée vs. Nicky Schrire: booking agents
On how much an artist makes versus their agents, and how to talk about who deserves it
Cyrille Aimée is a French vocalist in her thirties with a strong touring career. She's known recently for her 2020 Emmet's Place appearance, which ranks among the YouTube show's greatest hits, right up there with Patrick Bartley.
Nicky Schrire is a South African-British vocalist now based in Toronto who comes from a similar generation and whom I interviewed last year. Her latest album, right up my jazz/folk alley, is Nowhere Girl. ("Heart Like a Wheel" featuring Laila Biali was one of my favourite new tracks of 2023.)
Schrire works for the boutique jazz booking agency Unlimited Myles, who just signed Caity Gyorgy to a roster that already includes Fred Hersch and Melissa Aldana.
On May 21, 2024, a non-profit arts organization in Minnesota called Campfire Music Foundation published an interview with Aimée on YouTube. The next day, Campfire and Aimée collaboratively posted a clip from the interview to Instagram, where Campfire's bio states their own mandate as having been "Founded to build a new model of music streaming that pays artists fairly and transparently for their music."
Over the past day, Schrire made comments in a comment thread on the Instagram post, including a back-and-forth with Aimée.
I'm not sure if Schrire watched the entire interview, beyond the Instagram clip; thus here is my quote of what Aimée says just within the clip:
