UK Agency News: Coda & Instrumental Partner, UTA Signs Enissa Amani

null – Nick Matthews
Senior Agent at Coda

Coda Agency and  Instrumental, a data driven talent discovery business, have announced an exclusive UK partnership. 

The deal will see Instrumental support Coda’s team of agents with data and insights into the fastest growing artists from across the self-releasing sector as well as tracking talent signed to majors and indie labels.

The deal follows nearly two years of ongoing work between Instrumental and Live Nation in the UK that has helped evolve the platform into a valuable tool for the live sector.

As part of the deal Instrumental’s data science team will build bespoke tools and tracking capabilities across Spotify, YouTube, Twitter and the UK Charts to help the Coda team to identify new prospects and analyse the evolving live potential of artists and bands on their roster.

Conrad Withey, CEO of Instrumental, said: “The live sector is incredibly important to us and of course to the community of independent artists we are discovering through our platform. By working closely with the amazing team at Coda we hope to keep developing data driven solutions that can help match the best new talent out there to one of the finest live agencies in the world.

“Instrumental’s tie up with Coda forms part of our broader objective for 2019 of using our discovery capabilities to facilitate new opportunities for artists. This is the start of our mission to build a 360 partnerships platform for the fast-growing DIY artist sector.”

Nick Matthews, senior agent at Coda, added: “CODA has always prided itself on being aware of the next generation of superstar talent from the start. Being able to identify the best talent first is always what we will be about and the technology and alliance with Instrumental helps use data to make great decisions, as well as find amazing acts on a global level that we didn’t know about. It’s something that we want to become a daily part of A&R process.”

– Enissa Amani
UTA will help take her career in film, television and touring to the next level

Meanwhile, United Talent Agency (UTA) announced the worldwide signing of Enissa Amani in all areas, including film, television and touring, with a focus on developing her business in the Middle East and English-language markets.

Amani is a multilingual stand-up comic, writer and actress. Born in Iran, she was raised in Germany, where she studied Law and later pursued a passion for novel writing.

She began stand-up comedy in 2014 and her television debut – a five-minute stand-up performance on a German late night show – generated over five million views in its first few days.

Fluent in German, Farsi, English and French, Amani has been cited as the voice of a new German generation. According to the announcement by UTA, “her experience as an immigrant and geopolitical issues are central to her material and often are at the center of viral trends and topics on social media.:

In 2018, Amani became the first woman in Europe with a Netflix Original comedy special titled, Ehrenwort (German for word of honor). As a result of her success, Netflix released a second special eight months later titled, Comedian Goals.

Additionally, Amani has developed, written and produced two television series for private German TV station ProSieben.