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Amanda Blide

Dir of Pub
LaFamos PR

With over 14 years experience in publicity, management and booking, Amanda Blide is a diverse music industry veteran. For the past 9 years, she has lead the PR team at LaFamos PR & Branding as the Director of Publicity. Campaigns include Karmin, Magic Giant, Tim Myers (Co-founder of OneRepublic), Tessanne Chin (NBC’s The Voice), Mitski, Smoke Season, Emily Keener (NBC’s The Voice), and Boy Epic, servicing Hollywood Records, Capitol Records, Distiller Records and many more.

Prior to her role as a publicist, Amanda was an Artist Manager (The Prospect, The In Crowd, Farewell Verona) for several years, which eventually lead to managing tours on Vans Warped Tour, Hot Topic Tour and more. Her experience also includes time at The Firm (Snoop Dogg, Korn, OneRepublic, Mandy Moore) and Modern Artist Management (Unwritten Law, Jason Mraz, Burning Brides). Amanda later became a Junior Booking Agent at Atomic Music Group, working on tours for The Dwarves, LA Guns, Reverend Horton Heat, Supersuckers and more.

Amanda has received degrees from the University of South Florida and State College of Florida, in addition to Music Business certificates from Musicians Institute and Berklee College of Music.

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