Ep19: Can live musicians be replaced with Holograms?! Interview with Billboard's Cherie Hu - a podcast by Funny as Tech

Funny as Tech chats with Billboard's Cherie Hu about the ins, outs, and absurdities of using holograms for future live concerts. Along the way we discuss the Beatles, Nirvana, Ferris Bueller, Milli Vanilli, Maria Callas, and whether Funny as Tech should be replaced by holograms.

Cherie Hu is an award-winning, entrepreneurial music writer and analyst, focusing on tech trends and emerging markets. She currently serves as a tech columnist for Billboard and a music contributor for Forbes, with additional bylines in the Harvard Political Review, Music Ally and the Juilliard Journal. At age 21, she received the Reeperbahn Festival's inaugural award for Music Business Journalist of the Year. She speaks at several conferences around the world; this year, you can hear her at SXSW, Music Biz, IMS Ibiza, Primavera Sound and Midem.

Previously, Cherie spearheaded a research project on emerging music business models at Harvard Business School, and interned in product marketing at Ticketmaster and in A&R at Interscope Records. Her weekly email newsletter Water & Music reaches nearly 800 creative professionals and influencers, including executives at Spotify, Apple, Facebook and all three major record labels.

CHERIE HU

Twitter: https://twitter.com/cheriehu42
https://www.cheriehu.org/


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