I met Didier at Mu:con in Seoul in 2017. We talked for a while about the industry. He had context I didn’t, and the conversation went longer than either of us probably planned.
He started out wanting to be a sound engineer. That didn’t happen. He ended up at BMG, then EMI, then Warner, working through sales and marketing before eventually moving into artist management. He helped set up MMF France, and later got involved with the International Music Manager Forum (IMMF), the global body that represents artist managers.
This episode covers how that path actually happened — the early label years, the move into management, and why so much of his time now goes toward advocacy and building support structures for other managers rather than just managing artists himself.
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