MUSICIANS IN THE INDUSTRY
KEVIN BREUNER - CD BABY | Bruce Adolph
There is an old joke… a young son says to [Kevin Breuner] I took piano lessons and pursue the music business. Not just learn how
his mother, “When I grow up I want to be a all that stuff growing up, but I didn’t really start to play better, but I wanted to be involved in the
musician!” and the mother replies, “Well honey playing guitar until I think I was a junior in high business side as well. So, I went to Nashville
– you can’t do both”. As funny as that may school. I wasn’t ever in a band. I’m a little older to Belmont University and studied music and
seem, we here at [WM] work with musicians’ then people tend to realize, but this was right music business. I was a guitar major.
day in and day out who have a career in the around 1990. In church back then, you didn’t music industry and still have their own music have these full worship bands that are basically [WM] Tell us about you r experience at
be a big part of their life. You can do both. rock bands, where someone could plug in and Belmont?
Today we sit down with the Vice President of play. That was a rarity to ever see anything like Marketing for CD Baby, Kevin Breuner, who that. I was learning guitar, playing by myself. [Kevin] It was the butt kicking of a lifetime
also just happens to be the guitarist for the I had a couple friends who occasionally we (laughs), you can’t imagine. I grew up in San
last twenty-one years for the popular Christian would goof off playing music together. We were Diego and at that time San Diego did not have
band Smalltown Poets. Kevin has some great all in youth group together. By the way, one of a strong music scene. It’s gotten better, but it’s
insights for us all… those guys is a guitar player in Switchfoot. So always struggled because of Los Angeles being
we would kind of mess around on guitar, but so close. Especially at that time in the industry,
nothing like a band or writing songs. if you had anything going on you were going to
[WM] Tell us how you started out as
a musician?
leave and go up to L.A. to play the club circuit
I wanted to pursue music, but also, I wanted to
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and try to get noticed by a label.
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