He arranged for Musgraves - who, like many female country acts, gets little radio airplay - to expand her fan base by opening for Harry Styles on his summer tour. Owen prefers to keep the spotlight on his clients, and over the past year has negotiated a number of innovative opportunities for them from his offices in Nashville’s Green Hills neighborhood, where he employs a staff of 17 and shares a floor with former Vice President Al Gore. Mike Huckabee Resigns From CMA Foundation Board Following Outcry in Nashville In a respectful but impassioned letter to CMA CEO Sarah Trahern and its foundation’s director of community outreach, Tiffany Kerns, Owen - who has a 3-year-old son and 1-month-old twin daughters with his husband and partner of 12 years, Sam Easley - wrote that the former Arkansas governor’s anti-LGBTQ rhetoric “would suggest my family is morally beneath his and uses language that has a profoundly negative impact upon young people all across this country.” A day after the media revealed the letter, Huckabee huffily resigned from the board. He thinks globally, respects but is not bound by the traditional methods of breaking artists, sees the genre’s potential as -limitless and advocates for what he believes is right, as he did in March when he protested the Country Music Association’s appointment of Mike Huckabee to the board of its philanthropic foundation. In the nearly eight years since he founded Sandbox, Owen’s personalized, creative approach to his artists and the example he has set as a powerful, openly gay talent manager in a traditionally conservative town has made him the effective leader of country’s progressive new guard. I need to get a full picture so I know how to navigate things.” “I vacation with them sometimes I’ve been through divorces. “I’m really close with my artists,” says Owen. It’s a responsibility that the 41-year-old president/CEO of Sandbox Entertainment, which manages or co-manages a roster that includes Faith Hill, Little Big Town, Kacey Musgraves, Kelsea Ballerini, Dan + Shay and Devin Dawson, takes seriously. You’re literally putting your life in their hands.” His pants back in place, Wystrach explains in all seriousness that Midland, which took home the Academy of Country Music Award for best new vocal duo or group in April, signed with Owen because “you have to be surrounded by people that you can trust and with whom you share the same vision.
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