Robert Singerman

Known for developing talent and new music business/tech, as an entrepreneur, agent, manager, label executive, consultant, producer, and music supervisor, Robert Singerman has represented R.E.M., Gipsy Kings, James Brown, Suzanne Vega, Megadeth, Violent Femmes, 10,000 Maniacs, Smithereens, Professor Longhair, Allen Toussaint, L’il Queenie, Fela Kuti, Bad Brains, Sun Ra, and King Sunny Ade, among many other artists. 

The “father of music subtitles”, his main mission is giving music subtitling solutions, so that music becomes truly global, through the universal understanding of the lyrics. He’s the SVP, International Publishing at LyricFind, licensing and monetizing legal lyrics and lyric translations from publishers, CMO’s like IPRS, and songwriters around the globe, onto 100+ platforms such as Google Search, Amazon Music, YouTube Music, Deezer, Pandora, SoundHound, IHeartMusic, Xperi (for cars/inc. Mercedes Benz).

Robert directed the EU’s European Music Office, US and The French Music Export Office, North America. He represented the Brasil Music Exchange in North America and created CAB; Chile, Argentina, Brazil Music Trade Mission Tour annually from 2016 through 2022. He’s assisted trade missions from many countries to many other countries, working with CIMA, CAAMA, A2IM, ABMI, AMAEI, Sounds Australia, Sounds from Spain and other countries, organizations, conferences and export offices, including in LATAM, US, India, Canada, China, Singapore, Eastern Europe, and Korea. 

Singerman helped write, win and oversee four impactful Canadian Indigenous Language Revitalization and Canadian Export Content grants and three EU grants, with many EU partners. 

He’s given keynote speeches, moderated panels and spoken at music conference events worldwide, in over 40 countries, including many times in New Orleans, Louisiana. 

Robert’s a partner in LyricFind, .MUSIC, Mondo, SyncSummit, YouBloom, Heaven11, Broma16 and other companies. He’s on the Board of Directors/Advisors of SIM SP, Songtradr, VenuePilot, YouBloom, and Make Music New York.