About Gabrielle DeRosa

Gabrielle DeRosa

Singer-Songwriter, Digital Content Creator, Dr. in Environmental Science and Technology from Gallipoli, Italy

Elvira Martínez Franco

Personal Manager

Booking and managing my live streams, live performances, interviews, events collaborations, Radio/TV/podcasts/shows collaborations, artists/creators/brands collaborations, creators and brands social media collaborations.
elviramartinez@gabriellederosa.it

I looked for a manager for a long amount of time. I was a student, always doing other things, growing up, and it never felt the right moment to find the right person for this role. After graduating from my university, I was finally able to do my job on a full-time basis. I built a strategy, I collected my ideas, and I started to earn from part-time activities in order to promote my songs. It was December 13th, 2021 when I decided that Elvira Martínez Franco was the perfect choice. She was available, professional and kind. I remember that I was a little anxious about this collaboration because I reviewed other 31 candidates for three days: not all of them even read the description of my announce, but those who did were all like-minded, professional people. I met some amazing colleagues to work with for other projects, but none of them was as much available, like-minded and outgoing as Elvira. I was worried that she didn't believe in me, and she didn't know, but she answered to my e-mail saying that she was really happy to be part of my personal project and telling me that we could do big things together. In that moment I was sure: "it's her, she is my personal manager".

Salvatore Angelè JS

Mix and Mastering Engineer

Technical expertise and final adjustments to recorded music before it is professionally released.

We're both from Salento, Italy and we've been working together perfectly since 2017! I was planning to release my first album when we were introduced to each other by a rapper called GioD, our colleague and mutual friend. I was in JS's Better Days Studio to record a chorus, he liked my voice and he asked me to sing some of my songs. He offered me to produce a musical RnB project. I refused and offered him to record and curate the mix and mastering of my debut Country-Pop/Indie album "We Believe", all acoustic, with a support band. JS accepted and we had a deal. The experience was intense, but in the end, he came out as a supportive, professional and flexible ally. My music style changed, my projects changed, but JS continued to have an amazing understanding of my creative ideas. Then I was gifted by SIAE a recording kit and, since "Confidence", we started to collaborate only for mix and mastering on a fixated price: it allowed me to build a professional release-strategy to grow my fan-base even when my earnings were very low.

Pavan Arora

Video Promoter

Consistent promotion of products, services and content over social media during a promotional campaign or social media strategy.

It was unfortunately easy to encounter scams in this field! It demotivated me a lot even though I needed to find someone I could trust to promote my content, especially my music videos and my YouTube series! When I first worked with Pavan Arora, I was trying different services from Fiverr's freelancers. He worked on my "Confidence" music video. While some scammers provided me with "fake promotion" in the form of "targeted followers or views" that obviously "dropped" in two days or showed as blacklinks in my analytics... Pavan Arora's ads were legit, efficient and honest at a reasonable price. When I was finally able to do my job full time, I needed a promoter that I could trust on a schedule. I read his reviews on Fiverr, I went back to my analytics from "Confidence" from 2 years before, and I noticed that it always continued to grow, so his service worked perfectly well for my needs. He is professional, smart and kind.

SIAE

Italian Society of Authors and Editors

Italian Association of Authors and Editors: protection of creative rights, collection of revenue from the administration of publishing rights on a national level, support and educational resources for Italian workers of the creative industry.

I enrolled when I was 13 years old in order to protect the creative rights of my first official song called "My Life Was A Dead Star". I've been sending documents about my songs to them since then. 7 years later, one day, I decided that I needed a professional update but I was a student and I didn't have the money to invest in a professional recording set. The following morning I woke up unusually early to an e-mail from SIAE: I was one of the first users choosing a professional gift to help their associates during the national lockdown for Covid-19. Since it was so early, everything was available, so I had the time to choose well. I chose the recording set I used to record many of my songs from home, and it allowed me to save thousands of euros over the following years.

CD Baby

Digital Music Distributor

They take care of music distribution on streaming/download platforms, worldwide publishing rights administration, monetisation of music use on social video platforms, sync licensing, music marketing, online advertising, support and educational resources for independent artists.

They've been "helping artists make money since 1998", the same year I was born! Some people say that CD Baby takes a high percentage from your sync royalties, but then they suggest a music distributor which takes a high monthly or yearly fee: starting as a young girl with no salary, if it weren't for CD Baby's "pay just to publish" policy... I would have never started releasing my songs and finding my way to reach my international goals in time and fulfil my dreams. They deserve the money they collect from sync: without their social meida music ID services, I could have never possibly find and collected revenue from every YouTube video which is using my songs! This allowed my to earn a revenue from YouTube even before being fully monetised. I was officially verified on Spotify, on Google and I had my lyrics published on a verified MusixMatch profile with no minimum requirements. They really support independent artists and I am genuinely happy to collaborate with them.

Spring

POD, e-commerce

Social commerce platform, sale of customisable products printed on demand, sale of digital items.

They've been helping creators to sell their projects and designs since 2012, the same year I recorded my first song! In 2021 I founded my shop https://a13lgabriellederosa.it using their print-on-demand and e-commerce services: I was able to choose from a variety of eco-sustainable ideas, their products are long lasting and they eliminated double packaging, massively contributing to the reduction of packaging materials waste in the world. They are sustainable from an environmental and an economical point of view: I was able to sell my digital products safely, with a high margin of earning which made economic and eco-sustainability happen both for me and for my audience! It allowed me to earn more with a low price on every digital item, selling my project "The 13 Cycle", my self-portraits prints, and various collection of 100% cotton clothes with my logos and my designs. They always come up with new ideas, partnerships and tips for their creators who are already 8'000'000 in 2021, December.

Partners.

My Team