Hannah Shogbola
(gbr)

Hannah Shogbola is currently a senior agent at Echo Location Talent; representing a wide array of live and DJ artists worldwide.

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Hannah Shogbola is currently a senior agent at Echo Location Talent; representing a wide array of live and DJ artists worldwide.

She began her career working at a music studio ‘DatSound’ for emerging UK hip hop acts such as Klashnekoff & Exchalibah and worked in the industry for over 10 years. 

Moving into broadcasting for BBC London saw Hannah produce and assist on a wide selection of radio shows from Vanessa Feltz to Robert Elms.

Soon her love for electronic music saw her work within the booking team at Fabric, then onto WME - one of the worlds largest booking agencies. There she worked with Nick Cave assisting across a wide array of artists including Paul Kalkbrenner to MIA, to Trenmoller & Maya Jane Coles.

Following WME, she was head hunted by Obi Asika to start working for Echo Location Talent, heading up her own roster as well as becoming a crucial apart of the events team; working on the likes of: Afro Nation Portugal, Ghana & Puerto Rico.

Hannah Shogbola represents over twenty artists from Hannah Wants, Kurupt FM, My Nu Leng, Emerald, Redlight & many more.

One of the very few Black female agents in the UK plus one of the only under 30 to sell out Brixton Academy, Roundhouse and The forum with her clients Kurupt in 2016. 

2020 is set to be a huge year working with African artists across the board and building foundations across each territory. 

A motivational speaker Hannah has worked on panels and boards from talks at The Royal Albert Hall to The Roundhouse as well as working with The British Council and festival curation at The Southbank. Her work has been at the forefront of helping up and coming artists as well as ensuring work environments are diverse, well balanced and equal. 

2020 has seen the world face many challenges especially those within the live music sector. With an abundance of experience and a desire to make a difference DAJU was born. A new Creative consultancy is the brain child of Hannah Shogbola Platt which has seen her work with various companies programming events and diversifying offices. From British Underground to Afro Punk to SXSW she already have some incredible projects underway.