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Amy Davidman

Partner/Founder/Agent
TBA Agency

Amy Davidman is a veteran agent with more than 20 years’ experience in the music business. Davidman is a founding partner of TBA, a company she helped launch in 2020 during the global pandemic. TBA has quickly established itself as an exciting new force in the talent space with a roster that includes Jungle, Big Thief, Courtney Barnett, Faye Webster, Remi Wolfe and more. Davidman herself also personally represents some of the world’s most beloved and respected artists including Pink Martini, Hiatus Kaiyote, José González, Cut Copy, Caribou, Cuco, Ana Tijoux, Ed Maverick, Mexican Institute of Sound, Devendra Banhart, Boy Pablo, Y La Bamba, Tirzah, Adi Oasis, Madame Gandhi and more.

Davidman has been featured in Rolling Stone, Pollstar, The LA Times, Billboard’s 2020 Pride List, Music Business Worldwide’s Inspiring Women Series, and made Billboard’s 2021, 2022, and 2023 International Power Player Lists and the 2024 Latin Power Players list and was named as one of Pollstar’s 2024 Women of Live.

She has appeared on panels and as a guest speaker at conferences and universities internationally including IEBA, Wavelengths: Global Music Conference, Folk Alliance: Folk Unlocked, Women In Music: Driving Change, Women In Music: Know Your Worth, Pollstar: The Future of Live, ILMC, FIMPRO in Guadalajara, The Clive Davis Institute at NYU’s Tisch School of Music, and UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music.

Davidman is also committed to social justice issues and reforms within the music business. She designed and moderated a panel for SXSW called “Making Live Music Sexual Harassment Free”. She was a 2023-2024 Women In Music Executive Ambassador

She began her career at the legendary Bowery Ballroom and went on to work with esteemed David Lefkowitz Management before focusing on the live business working at High Road Touring before becoming an agent at The Windish Agency and then Paradigm.

Amy is based in the Bay Area, CA. She participates annually in endurance cycling events led by the non-profit Climate Change which helps raise money for climate justice initiatives. And she chairs the Mira Vista Elementary School PTA’s Fundraising Auction Gala.

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Events featuring Amy Davidman
Events featuring Amy Davidman