Erika Montes
Erika Montes is the Head of Artist Relations at SoundCloud. Based on the west coast out of SoundCloud’s Los Angeles office, Montes is responsible for building and maintaining SoundCloud’s relationships with artists, managers, producers, and agents at varying levels of success and across genres. In addition, she educates the creator community on SoundCloud’s differentiated business model and best practices to help them drive success on the platform. Prior to SoundCloud, Montes was the Director of Label and Artist Relations at LoveLive, coordinating musical talent for major productions with Show Cobra clients including Amazon, AOL, Spotify and Verizon. Earlier in her career, she was the Vice President of Music Programming and Development at Fuse Networks, where she helped to launch the network’s YouTube channel, in addition to booking all Fuse linear and digital shows such as United States of Hip Hop, Hustle After Party, The Mixdown and CrateDiggers.
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