ABOUT US:
David Swartz
(Founder / Managing Director)
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David Swartz founded Singular Arts Group (originally in partnership with creative director Matt Lambert) in the Spring of 2019. David is originally from Los Angeles and has been based in Berlin since 2015. He has worked around music for two decades going back to the early 2000s, primarily as an independent entrepreneur, although he has done some stints working as part of bigger companies. Live music served as the foundation of his initial love of music and it was within the live sector of the business that David spent the early part of his career — he worked as a concert promoter and then booking agent from 2001 through 2009 before settling into the space of artist management where he felt most well-suited to thrive.
After a year of living in Berlin, in September 2016, following the advice of a longtime friend and mentor Merck Mercuriadis, David took a position with !K7 Music who were expanding their artist management division. During the years that followed while David was at !K7 where he was the most senior member of the artist management team, he looked after a roster of artists which included primarily Mykki Blanco and the legendary English trip hop pioneer Tricky; whilst at !K7, David also signed in avant-garde electronic artist Lotic to the management roster, helped to bring in Kele Okereke (of Bloc Party) as a signing to the label services side of the !K7 business, and also helped to contribute in advising on other management clients on the !K7 roster (incl. FaltyDL, Niklas Paschburg, and LAFAWNDAH).
In early 2019, after a chapter of about 2.5 years with !K7, David decided to move on to go back to his entrepreneurial comfort zone again with starting his own new artist mgmt business (at first, in partnership with creative director Matt Lambert). Shortly after David’s decision to depart !K7 to go back out on his own, Mykki Blanco as well as FaltyDL (both artists who had previously been working with David at !K7) made the decision to leave to follow him, and the two of them became the basis of the original roster (along with young singer-songwriter gem Finn Ronsdorf) of Singular Arts Group.
In October 2021, the management relationship with Mykki Blanco came to an end. Following the closing of that 5+ year of managing Mykki, David subsequently opted to take a brief sabbatical to do some intentional and thoughtful reflection to determine the path he wanted to chart on ahead with for the next chapter of the business.
In April 2022, Matt Lambert officially exited the business to focus on the pursuit of his high volume of other personal creative endeavors; this has now put David fully in the driver’s set as the sole proprietor of Singular Arts Group — enthusiastically energized to continue on with the work of managing Finn (and releasing Finn’s music via the Singular Arts Group label imprint via their deal with AWAL), as well as navigating the expansion of the scope of the business to include the further service offering of work strategic business consulting to select projects in the arts & culture sector.
Further Team
With the expertise and hustle of two decades working primarily as an entrepreneurial independent in the culture sector, David drives the strategic development and overall vision of the business; but, in addition to David, there is a diverse network of external project managers and freelancers who are involved with making contributions to support the work of Singular Arts Group.
