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David Hopkins

Social Change

SoundImpacts

by David Hopkins

I’m a music, live events, travel and environmental enthusiast. I grew up in the countryside in Wales, worked for a record label, then moved to London to pursue my career, that’s taken me very fortunately, to live in 3 of the most culturally rich cities – London, Paris, and Rio de Janeiro – working with fantastic people on great projects.

A record label, ticketing, live music and sports events, festivals, entertainment publishers, helping independent artists and managers, and various freelance and environmental projects too such as a Greenpeace volunteer in Brasil.

I love travel and nature – I took a year to explore South America backpacking, and volunteer community work in Africa. And my real passions are music festivals, live experiences, sharing those with others, and playing music – guitar mostly, and reading when I get the time!

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“SoundImpacts” is a platform that shows the positive impact the music industry, artists and professionals have had, has, and can have, on equality, diversity, sustainability, environmental and social aspects.

It’s a platform to understand and learn, a global resource, and powerful collective of people in music, to learn and improve practices that make the industry fairer, sustainable, diverse and environmentally clean.

I’ve 15 years marketing in music, I’m a keen environmentalist, and passionate believer in sustainability, diversity and fairness in the industry, having volunteered and helped charities and platforms such as Greenpeace, and drawn to people and projects that strive to promote (or even sing about) these issues and find solutions.

I talk to many artists, bands, independent festivals and industry players who also have similar passions – to highlight what’s being done, what can be done and how, and ways to improve. I know there are others within the industry that have similar passions and a drive to do something about it.

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HELIENNE LINDVALL, SE

CHAIR OF THE SONGWRITER COMMITTEE & BOARD DIRECTOR THE IVORS ACADEMY (formerly BASCA)

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