Tony Boswell

Director of Strategic Content & Artists Development, Dead Famous Artists International

Tony has a coursework towards an Electronics Engineering Baccalaureate, has served in the US Navy as an Electronics Tech, and has also authored titles like The Secrets of Free Radio Advertising. He is also no stranger to music production and event planning as he was an integral part to Kansas City based "Ma & Pa Productions" while putting together a huge annual event called the Marten City Meltdown that brought in acts like Jackyl, Steelheart and many of the areas local acts. In May of 2007, on a whim, Tony contacted Alexia Erlichman, a former employee of Tribeca Productions and currently the CEO for MusicGorilla.com, where he negotiated himself a position as an independent contractor serving in an A&R capacity to find and recruit artists for licensing and publishing opportunities, as well as some of the largest live label showcases in the U.S. for the likes of RCA Music Group, Virgin, Geffen, Epic, Hollywood Records, Epic, Octone, Disney Studios, Lava, Reunion/Essential and many others. Out of this contract, his internet marketing skills and his natural ear for talent, PlayItForTheLabels.com was born. In early August, while routinely returning contacts from the PlayItForTheLabels.com website, Tony happened to dial the number of Mike Puskas, CEO of Astral Records and Music in Melbourne, Australia. After a few hours of conversation and several more phone calls like this, Mike and Tony found they had many similar ideas and concepts about ways to change the music industry that was currently consuming itself. Out of these many correspondences the structure for a brand new kind of record label began to take shape and three weeks later, Tony began building the DeadFamousArtists.com website. And the rest, as they say, is history…or so we are hoping!! From those humble beginnings, Tony is now the CFO and Director of Strategic Content & Development for Astral Records / Dead Famous Artists International with partner and CEO Mike Puskas, their global partners and other subsidiaries spread throughout the world. Tony is the creative and technical element behind the Dead Famous Artists website and in every page you'll find the evidence of both Mike and Tony's vision, along with the passion and love for what they do are doing. Simply said, Tony knows talent when he sees and hears it and can take a step back to objectively analyze in great detail, any artist that is put on his desk from both an A&R perspective as well as a Marketing & Sales perspective.