Phil Vassar
Phil Vassar has teamed with Amy Millslagle to launch management company i 81 Entertainment. The management company’s first artist signing is Sarah Darling.
Among 81 Entertainment’s offerings are internal publicity, social media, recording, and production teams, available for artists on a full-time or ad-hoc basis. The company aims to build lifestyle brands around artists in the country and Americana genres, holistically supporting careers via traditional and non-traditional mediums.
Sarah Darling
As an artist and songwriter, Vassar has notched 10 No. 1 singles and 26 Top 40 songs during his career, including the singles “Carlene,” “Just Another Day In Paradise,” and “That’s When I Love You.”
Millslagle earned her chemical engineering degree from the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and has her MBA from Harvard. She practiced brand management at Procter & Gamble and served as Marketing VP of the Olympic Operations Unit at Dow Chemical. Following that, she started and later sold Frosted Affair, a gourmet bakery in the Green Hills area of Nashville.
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