Holodigm Academy is dedicated to teaching the history, future and current state of the global music industry.

JOHN HARTMANN Author, educator and music industry veteran John Hartmann began his professional career in the famous mailroom of the William Morris Agency. He later served as the Morris Office liaison to Colonel Tom Parker the legendary manager of Elvis Presley.

A veteran music agent, personal manager and record executive, Hartmann has provided career direction for such luminaries as Chad & Jeremy, Sonny & Cher, Buffalo Springfield, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Eagles, Jackson Browne, Peter Paul & Mary, Crosby, Stills & Nash, America, Poco, Ringo Starr, and many others. He is a results-oriented, operational leader with more than Sixty years experience in the entertainment industry.

His proven expertise in creating business strategies is evidenced by the quality and quantity of musical artists it has been his privilege to serve throughout his career. He was honored to receive the Talent Managers Association’s 2015 Heller Award for Lifetime Achievement in artist management. The crystal trophy was presented by Hartmann’s first client Jeremy Clyde of the British Invasion era folk-rock duo, Chad & Jeremy, some fifty years later.

Hartmann began his teaching career at Hollywood’s Musician’s Institute in 2004. He went on to lecture for ten years in the School of Film & Television at Loyola Marymount University where the students voted him Professor of the Year three times. He progressed to UCLA where he taught The Insider’s Guide to Music Management for seven years before his retirement in 2017.

He is the founder of The Holodigm Academy, an Internet company engaged in the creation and execution of the new music industry paradigm. The mission statement of The Holodigm is to ensure that the next generation of music belongs to those who create it. Hartmann’s textbook, “ROCK – Building Bands in the Digital Age” is a guide for songwriters, musicians an

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