Tate McRae's Breakthrough Year — And What Comes Next
In the spring of 2019, Nashville-based managers David Conway and Dirk Hemsath, along with New York-based Matt Feldman, decided to swap their annual getaway to Coachella for an excursion to the Walt Disney World Resort. It was a business trip: Multiple industry members were there to watch Tate McRae perform two songs in between acts during a hip-hop dance competition and try to ink a management deal with the teen phenom. âThere were definitely a bunch of other awesome managers there that we were looking around at,â says Conway, a partner at Hard 8 // Working Group along with Hemsat...