Stephen Budd is a British music industry executive and artist manager based in London.
A co-founder and former chairman of the MMF (Music Managers Forum), the trade body for artist managers, he owns Stephen Budd Music Ltd and Record-producers.com where he has represented many highly successful recording artists and Grammy-winning record producers (see Wikipedia for his full history).
He is a recognised TV commentator on music industry issues, regularly appearing on BBC and on a variety of British TV news shows.
He is a director of OneFest Festival, of Damon Albarn's Africa Express project and is the co-founder of the NH7 Weekender festivals in India and helped in the creation of the DMZ Peace Train Festival in Korea.
Stephen created a variety of Charity projects including WarChild’s annual “Passport Back To The Bars" concerts, now called BritsWeek and also co-produced Amnesty International and Sofar Sounds' ‘Give A Home’ global concert series for refugees. In 2022 he ran The Music Venues Trust "Passport Back To Our Roots" concert series to raise money for Covid-19 endangered live music venues.
He is a director of the newly formed SoulJazzCTY Festival in London summer 2027.
Stephen is a fanatical vinyl collector and for fun, he DJ’s African music of the 1970’s on WordWide.FM radio as well as at festivals and clubs across the world.
A short documentary about his career here and a recent podcast here : SB Interview
