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Dawn Sutter Madell

Music writer and supervisor from Brooklyn New York, USA From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Dawn Sutter Madell is a music writer and co-owner of Agoraphone, a company that does music supervision, licensing, and original music production for commercials, television and film.

Madell has worked with brands such as FedEx, Samsung, and Audi.[1][2][3][4][5] She was the music supervisor for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom. Branford Marsalis called her "the music whisperer for the film."[6] Madell's Agoraphone was the music company for Hewlett-Packard's television commercial "Jane" which won multiple awards in 2016 including a CLIO and the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity.[7][8] They also did the music for Audi's 2016 Super Bowl ad featuring David Bowie's song Starman.[9] Her musical score for The World Made Straight was called "the perfect blend of Appalachian folk music and country tunes."[10] Maddell worked with Soundwalk Collective to create the soundtrack for the Peabody Award-winning documentary film All the Beauty and the Bloodshed,[11] which was released in 2022.

Madell often discusses music licensing issues in the larger world, explaining the ins and outs of commercial licensing.[12][13][14] Dawn Sutter Madell is a graduate of Washington University in St. Louis where she was a DJ for KWUR.

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Personal life

Madell married Josh Madell, co-owner of Other Music, in May 1999.[15][16] They live in Brooklyn.[17]

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