Client Feature:How Tim Dubois Became a Nashville Music Legend

Client Feature: How Tim DuBois Became a Nashville Music Legend

As you experience successes, and especially financial successes, Tim DuBois, you have to feel confident that side of your life is in good order Music Executive and that there are people there that you can trust.”

1976: The first song DuBois writes (“A Good Old Fashioned Chasing a passion Saturday Night Honky Tonk Barroom Brawl”) is played on Tim DuBois never dreamed of becoming the head of a record label. He was a CPA the radio living in Oklahoma and had spent the early part of his career working as an auditor and financial analyst, but he had a clear passion: songwriting. He made regular trips 1977: DuBois moves to to Nashville to try to break into the business and when he moved to Music City full Nashville, Tennessee time in 1977, he was married with two kids and in graduate school pursuing a Ph.D. in accounting. At the time, Nashville music was a cottage industry. The city was sprinkled DuBois receives his first 1983: with artists and repertoire outposts affiliated with the major record labels, but few had Grammy Award nomination for Song of the Year launched business affairs offices.

1986: DuBois opens a Nashville outpost for Fitzgerald Hartley, an Evolving from songwriter to music executive artist management company DuBois’ ascent into the music industry wasn’t easy. He taught accounting at several universities to help pay the bills and feed his family, but DuBois considers himself 1988: DuBois becomes a lucky compared to many of his contemporaries: He was able to leverage his finance SunTrust client after meeting background—and love for teaching—to secure a job and benefits while he was finding Brian Williams and recognizing him as a banker who took time to his way as a songwriter. understand the music industry

1989: DuBois launches Arista One of the things that I had experienced as a songwriter myself Records Nashville and being involved early on in the songwriting community is how many people came to town without a safety net. They came with 1990: DuBois signs Alan Jackson to Arista a guitar and some notebooks full of lyrics, but they really didn’t have a place to stay and a fallback.” 1990: Arista Records Nashville releases its first album (Alan Jackson’s debut, “Here in the Real DuBois celebrated his first three No. 1 hits while he was still teaching, and his career in World”), which eventually goes the music industry took off from there. He went on to become a record producer, an double platinum artist manager and one of the most accomplished executives in the recording industry, 1991: DuBois wins Country Music discovering and signing scores of future stars, including Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn Association Song of the Year with and Brad Paisley. singer-songwriter Vince Gill for “When I Call Your Name”

1992: Pollstar names DuBois Record Executive of the Year

Navigating the music business 1993: SunTrust finances the purchase of land in Dickson Early in his career, DuBois learned that the music industry can be complicated, and it’s County, property which would essential to have a strong financial partner who understands the intricacies of his craft. serve as a place for DuBois’ artists DuBois turned to SunTrust in 1988 as he was gaining traction as a songwriter, and his and employees to have writing career and earnings benefited from the bank’s specialized industry expertise within sessions and corporate retreats its Private Wealth Management Sports & Entertainment Specialty Group. DuBois was 1994: Entertainment Weekly looking for a financial partner that not only recognized how money flows in the music features DuBois in its list of business and knew how to capitalize on royalties, but a partner that could support him 101 Most Powerful People in and grow with him as his music career evolved. Entertainment. He earns the same honor in 1995. When you’re in the music industry, you want to go and talk to 2002: DuBois becomes the head of Universal South Records somebody who understands the biz, and SunTrust understands the biz.” 2007: DuBois joins the faculty of Vanderbilt University’s Owen Graduate School of Management as a clinical professor of management with a focus on the media and entertainment industry For more information about SunTrust Private Wealth Management’s Sports & Entertainment Specialty Group, contact a SunTrust client advisor. 2012: DuBois starts Artist Management Partners

2014: DuBois is elected to serve on the Country Music Association’s Board of Directors

2014: The Association to At SunTrust, success is defined by the impact we make on the lives of Advance Collegiate Schools of our clients, our communities and our teammates. Lighting the Way to Business names DuBois one of 100 influential leaders worldwide Financial Well Being is our commitment to helping instill confidence in the financial circumstances of everyone we interact with. It is at the 2015: DuBois is inducted into the center of everything we do, and we can do it for you too. Oklahoma Music Hall of Fame

2015: DuBois receives the Mae Boren Axton Award from the Academy of Country Music

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