The music manager who discovered Justin Bieber will help launch Brisbane band Sheppard in the US.
Sheppard’s manager, Michael Chugg, confirmed today that Scooter Braun had contacted him immediately after hearing 'Geronimo', and was keen to join Team Sheppard. Chugg told scenestr, “It’s a huge coup for Sheppard and our worldwide team to have Scooter Braun playing fullback in the Americas. Look out world."
Braun posted on Instagram this week: “Sometimes you hear a song and on 1st listen you know it’s a smash No. 1 record. This is one of those things. So good #tune,” he posted.
And he isn’t the only music industry heavyweight flying the flag for the band worldwide, according to news.com.au. The head of Universal Music, Lucien Grange, has commanded his global company to get behind Geronimo and is equally convinced the song could be the one of the biggest hits of the year.
Sheppard will perform at the APRA Awards in Brisbane on Monday night ahead as they gear up for their debut album release on July 11. They will release Geronimo, which is now streaming on Spotify globally, in the rest of the world on July 14. The breakthrough single spent three weeks at No. 1 in Australia and has sold more than 210,000 copies.
Read our interview with Sheppard from June last year.
Sheppard made the cover of issue #999 of Scene Magazine in their home state of Queensland in June 2013.
