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MusicRow Taps Cris Lacy As Featured Speaker For ‘Rising Women’ Event

September 22, 2022/by LB Cantrell

Cris Lacy

Warner Music Nashville Co-President Cris Lacy will be the featured speaker at MusicRow‘s Rising Women on the Row breakfast on Thursday, Oct. 20 at 8:30 a.m. at the Omni Nashville Hotel.

Attendees will be treated to insights from Lacy during an on-stage interview with MusicRow Publisher/Owner Sherod Robertson.

The ninth annual celebration will honor the next class of Rising Women on the Row honorees: Jen Conger (FBMM, Business Manager), JoJamie Hahr (BBR Music Group/BMG, Sr. VP), Mandy Morrison (City National Bank, Vice President/Senior Relationship Manager), Missy Roberts (Universal Music Publishing Group, VP, A&R), Jennie Smythe (Girlilla Marketing, CEO) and Stephanie Wright (UMG Nashville, Senior VP, A&R).

Presenting sponsors for this year’s Rising Women on the Row are City National Bank, Loeb & Loeb, and Tri Star Sports & Entertainment Group.

Tickets can be purchased here.

Alongside Co-President Ben Kline, Lacy guides the highly successful country division of Warner Music Group that includes chart-topping artists such as Blake Shelton, Kenny Chesney, Dan + Shay, Brett Eldredge, Cole Swindell, Zac Brown Band, Ashley McBryde, and an array of skyrocketing artists who represent the genre’s next generation such as Ingrid Andress, Cody Johnson, Gabby Barrett, Bailey Zimmerman, and Ian Munsick.

Lacy graduated from Vanderbilt with a degree in English before beginning her first full-time industry job at Tom Collins Music Publishing. She continued her publishing experience at Rick Hall / FAME Publishing, Island Bound Music and Warner Chappell Music before accepting an A&R position at Warner Music Nashville in 2005.

She rose through the ranks at the label, and was promoted to SVP of A&R in 2017 and EVP of A&R two years later. While leading A&R at Warner Music Nashville, Lacy was the driving force behind the signing of many of the label’s most prominent artists, including Kenny Chesney, Zac Brown Band, Cole Swindell, Ashley McBryde, Cody Johnson and Gabby Barrett.

Lacy’s honors include multiple spotlights on Billboard’s Country Power Players and Women in Music lists, as well as MusicRow‘s Rising Women on the Row honor in 2016.

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LB Cantrell is Editor/Director of Operations at MusicRow magazine, where she oversees, manages and executes all company operations. LB oversees all MusicRow-related content, including the publication’s six annual print issues and online news. She is a Georgia native and a graduate of the Recording Industry Management program at Middle Tennessee State University.
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