Nominations Now Open for Chip Hooper Award at the Billboard Live Music Summit

Billboard is now accepting nominations for the Chip Hooper Award, named in honor of the mythical ability agent, father and photographer who performed a key position in development the Paradigm ability company, which used to be bought by means of Wasserman Track in 2021.

Hooper gave up the ghost upcoming a fight with most cancers in 2016; the award used to be created in 2018 as a part of a collaboration between Billboard, his colleagues at Wasserman Track and Hooper’s daughter, Valerie Hooper, and son, Max Hooper. Now in its 3rd moment, the award is gifted to a tender emerging big name who works as an government in artist illustration, control or live performance promotion.

In 2018, the inaugural award used to be given to Kelly Stebalsky of Reside Crowd, who first met Hooper upcoming assembly him at an business convention; she after left her task at William Morris in Unutilized York to return paintings with him in representing acts like Phish and Dave Matthews Band. In 2019, Sara Bollwinkel, up to now with Paradigm and now a senior vice chairman at Wasserman Track, gained the award.

The Chip Hooper Award shall be introduced for the 3rd past at this moment’s Billboard Reside Track Awards, which is slated to pluck park Nov. 14 on the One Resort in West Hollywood. Nominations for the award are actually visible. Year there’s no time cap, please remember the fact that the award is for younger execs at the get up. 

To appoint anyone, you’ll be able to electronic mail their identify, identify and corporate, together with a temporary description about why they deserve the honour and a record of a couple of in their accomplishments within the closing 18 months, to dave.brooks@billboard.com. The time limit for nominations is Friday (Oct. 18) at 5 p.m. PT/8 p.m. ET.