by Jeroslyn JoVonn
February 25, 2025
Sean Garrett and different music business powerhouses are honoring Africa’s affect on world music on the 2025 TRACE Awards & Summit.
Singer-songwriter and producer Sean Garrett is bringing his musical affect to Zanzibar, Africa, to take part in two impactful panel discussions on the 2025 TRACE Awards & Summit.
A press launch states that the premier world occasion celebrating African and Afro-inspired music will happen from Feb. 24 to 25 and have two high-profile panels with acclaimed songwriter, producer, and artist Sean Garrett. Discussions will discover how African musicians can navigate the rising affect of synthetic intelligence (AI) and methods for extra African artists to attain world stardom.
The occasion will showcase world artists from over 30 nations throughout Africa, the Caribbean, South America, and Europe, competing in 24 classes. Garrett’s participation underscores his robust dedication to the worldwide music scene and his dedication to empowering the following era of artists.
For the AI-focused panel titled “The AI Takeover: Will African Producers & Artists Change into Irrelevant or Unstoppable?”, Garret will be a part of Vivek Ganesh (Enterprise Improvement, ByteDance-TikTok), Seven Mosha (Artist Improvement Supervisor, Sony Music EA), and Raj Kulasingam (Senior Counsel, Dentons) to debate how synthetic intelligence is reworking the music business and its affect on African expertise.
Within the second panel, Garrett will be a part of business leaders, together with Tanzanian artist Diamond Platnumz, Kudjo Sogadzi (President, Mediaco Holding Inc.), Sean Okeye (Model & Expertise Supervisor, Rema), and Adam Tiran (COO, Africon) for a dialogue on methods to raise African artists to world recognition.
Every panel and exercise aligns with the TRACE Awards & Summit’s mission to have a good time African and Afro-inspired music and tradition, uniting artists, business leaders, and innovators to discover the evolution of music and its world affect.
Garrett brings over 20 years of worldwide chart-topping success to the occasion. Generally known as Sean Garrett “The Pen,” he first rose to prominence together with his manufacturing on Usher’s 2004 smash hit Yeah! This was adopted by a string of hits, together with Goodies by Ciara, Test On It by Beyoncé, Run It by Chris Brown, London Bridge by Fergie, and his manufacturing and have on Mario’s No. 1 hit, Break Up, amongst many others.
All through his profession, Garrett has been a driving drive in modern R&B, persistently pushing the style ahead. His latest work as government producer on Summer season Walker’s Nonetheless Over It—which debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200—additional cements his repute as a contemporary R&B maestro.
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