Kobalt has signed of a worldwide administration deal with a music industry power couple: successful music producer, Adam Anders (Glee, The Passion, Rock Of Ages) and vocalist, writer and television personality, Nikki Anders.
Kobalt will administer the Anders’ existing catalogs (Little Fireball Music and Adam Anders Music) as well as all future works.
Additionally, Kobalt will have exclusive administration of all new writers signed by the Anders’ via Deep Well Publishing Group, the recently-launched publishing arm of their Capitol Music Group label imprint, Deep Well Records.
Adam Anders has written and produced tracks for the likes of Tori Kelly, Hilary Duff, Cee-Lo Green, Jonas Brothers, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Backstreet Boys, CeCe Winans and Nick Lachey among many others.
He has racked up four Grammy nominations, two People’s Choice Awards and an ARIA Award.
Nikki Anders has written songs and lyrics for numerous artists including Sheryl Crow, Selena Gomez and Billy Crawford, as well as serving as an on-air mentor, judge and vocal producer for The Glee Project and lending her talents to projects such as Hannah Montana (The Movie,) Glee, Evan Almighty and The Wedding Planner.
“Adam and nikki have shown a great creative support of their artists and writers which aligns with kobalt perfectly.”
Sas Metcalfe, Kobalt
Commenting on their new venture with Kobalt, Adam and Nikki Anders stated: “As a creative couple and team, we have built a catalog of music throughout the years that we are extremely proud of. It was very important for us to find the right partners to help us continue to build and grow our existing and future personal publishing assets. Kobalt is that partner and we couldn’t be more excited to be able to work with Sas, Sue, and the entire Kobalt team.”
Sas Metcalfe, Global President of Creative at Kobalt, added: “Adam is a man of many talents and we are so happy to be working with him in Deep Well. He and Nikki have shown a great creative support of their artists and writers which aligns with Kobalt perfectly.”
Nikki Anders’ Anders Media, Inc. has created music for successful major motion pictures and television shows (Glee, Rock Of Ages, Hannah Montana, The Wedding Planner and Rugrats In Paris amongst others) and has sold more than 100 million records worldwide.
Adam Anders is currently the Executive Producer and Executive Music Producer for “The Passion,” a two hour music event airing live from New Orleans on March 20th on Fox – which is also the inaugural network production for Anders Media.
Nikki Anders serves as Vocal Producer and Arranger for the project.
Adam Anders is a Producer and the Executive Music Producer for the ABC remake of “Dirty Dancing,” which is set to air in 2016.
Sue Drew, GM Creative & Acquisitions at Kobalt, commented, “We welcome our partnership with Adam and Nikki and look to the future to support them in their developing and nurturing talent. There is no limit to the amount of great work they can do.”
