Amy Davidman
Amy Davidman is a veteran agent with more than 20 years’ experience in the music business. 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.
In 2020, a year defined by the global pandemic, Amy launched TBA, a new independent agency as a founding partner. TBA gained instant recognition from the likes of Billboard, Pitchfork, Variety and more being hailed as a new era of agency, marking “the beginning of the deconsolidation of corporate agencies” according to Pollstar’s cover story.
Independently Amy 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.. She has appeared on panels and as a guest speaker at conferences and universities 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. She also designed and moderated a panel for SXSW called “Making Live Music Sexual Harassment Free”. She is a 2023-2024 Women In Music Executive Ambassador, made Billboard’s 2024 Latin Power Player List and was named as one of Pollstar’s 2024 Women of Live.
She brings deep experience in several genres and represents artists including Pink Martini, Hiatus Kaiyote, José González, Cut Copy, The Presets, Caribou, Ana Tijoux, Ed Maverick, Elkka, Devendra Banhart, Boy Pablo, Cuco, Ed Maverick, Tirzah, Adi Oasis, BALTHVS, Madame Gandhi and more.
Amy is based in the Bay Area, CA.
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