Ownen Husney on Managing Prince

In this clip from www.artistshousemusic.org – Owen Husney, a manager, talks about how he discovered Prince, put together the demo, became his manager, and eventually sold his contract. Husney also shares his opinion on Prince’s incredible talent and what the secrets are to the management business.

During the month of February of 2006, somewhere on the Southside of Chicago, four young men danced their way to popularity throughout the Thornridge High School community. J-Dub, Lucky and Reese were a part of a separate dance troupe. Tae, competing professionally apart from the rest of the group, knew the other guys well. They had all attended Thornridge High School. Reese was still a student there when Remy and DayRock attended a show at Kennedy King College where three of the four young men were performing. Initially, Remy thought of utilizing their dance expertise to back other singers with whom he had intended to work. One day while with these young men in the studio, DayRock decided to track some vocals which the group had written on the spot. Remy immediately knew he had something special. He took them to another local Chicago producer and did a couple of tracks on these young men. Along with a video taped in the streets outside of D.. Roc House, Remy decided to send their recorded performance to his ”brother” Steve Russell, in Los Angeles, California. At that point Remy signed the young men to a management contract and stated, ”It’s ”OffiCh-IL”. What this artist group soon discovered was that this was the same Steve Russell that penned hit songs for the artist group ”Troop”, of which he was producer and lead vocalist. They also discovered this was the same Steve Russell that penned numerous hit songs for B2K, Marcus Houston, Avant, Monica, Tyrese, Reuben …
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