How Tampa high schooler got signed to Capitol Records
GABRIELLE CALISE, Tampa Bay Times
May 8, 2021
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TAMPA, Fla. (AP) For the past six months, none of Aidan Bissett’s teachers or classmates at Jesuit High School were aware that he had just scored a huge record label deal.
As Bissett, 18, was wrapping up his senior year of high school, he was also sending snippets of indie pop songs recorded in his bedroom to Capitol Records, the same company that put out records by Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles.
In mid April, Capitol Records officially announced that the Tampa native would be joining their roster and launched his new single, Communication. The rest has been a blur.
How Tampa high school senior Aidan Bissett got signed to Capitol Records
Aidan Bissett, 18, built a social media following during the coronavirus lockdown. Then he scored a record deal.
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Tampa native Aidan Bissett, 18, just signed to Capitol Records. The Jesuit High School senior dropped his new single Communication in April. [ Courtesy of Sidney Mazza ]
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For the past six months, none of Aidan Bissettâs teachers or classmates at Jesuit High School were aware that he had just scored a huge record label deal.
As Bissett, 18, was wrapping up his senior year of high school, he was also sending snippets of indie pop songs recorded in his bedroom to Capitol Records, the same company that put out records by Frank Sinatra, Jimi Hendrix and the Beatles.
Priscilla Jackman. Photo: Phil Erbacher.
DREADFUL things happen to women in opera – they might be immured in a mausoleum, run though by a jealous lover or left to die in a sack, but nowhere is their fate sealed more grimly than in Béla Bartók’s only opera, “Bluebeard’s Castle”.
Not any more, as a new production of four performances only by Opera Australia is about to show.
“There’s no other way to see ‘Bluebeard’ but as a misogynistic work,” says associate director Priscilla Jackman, who joins director Andy Morton in staging the show for OA.
“But looked at in the light of day during 2021, it feels very timely.”
CEO, Meg Wilson
THE ACT Writers Centre has announced that it has officially appointed arts and writing advocate, Meg Wilson, to the role of chief executive officer.
Wilson has been acting as the interim director since February, following the departure of former director, Paul Bissett, but her position has now been formalised under the updated title of CEO.
Writers Centre chair, Sophie Mannix, said the organisation had conducted an extensive national, competitive hiring process before appointing Wilson, whom she described as an arts administrator who had expertly managed the centre through the turbulent period marked by COVID-19, adding, “She also brings strong networks from within Canberra’s literary community, a passion for advocating for writers from all backgrounds, and a vibrant vision for the future of the Australian arts sector”.