Many people believe that they need to move to Nashville, TN in order to get a career in country music. However, in the generation we live in today and the new social networking sites, people can use these to thier benifit and also try to blow up musically in thier community.In the state of Virginia there is one main place where someone can make a great living playing music and still have a higher chance to make it in the music industry, that is in Virginia Beach, VA.
Many people come to Virginia Beach to have fun at the ocean and see some of the sights that it has to offer, others come to try to get their foot in the musical door, without as much hustle and bustle as New York, LA, and Nashville (which are locations where most musical buisness takes place)
Artist such as Missy Elliot, Timberland, and N.E.R.D have made it to the top of the music charts by starting out in Virginia's finest Music area. Artist such as Justin Timberlake, Brittney Spears and Michael Jackson have recorded in VA Beach.
Artist today hustle their music and build a fan base on new media technologies, such as the social networking website known as myspace. Every person I asked "how do you find new music" they all spoke of the myspace website. Artist in VA Beach know this, and are selling songs, shirts, records and tickets through their myspace page and making thier music into an actual transmedia enterprise.
People use these to show to record labels and management companies. The artist who you can find playing Hampton Roads finest venues and local bars, will tell you it is a great area not only to get seen, but also to make a decent living while achieving the musical american dream. If artist start to make a large amount of revenue in thier music, they will get the attention of major lables out side of thier home state.
