BBR Music Group/BMG Elevates & Expands A&R Team

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Pictured (clockwise): Camille Kenny, Jacee Badeaux, Tahsin Rakib Himi, Talia Heimanson and Kennedy Nickerson.

BBR Music Group/BMG has elevated three of its A&R team members, and has also welcomed two more to the company. All will report to SVP, A&R, Frontline Recordings, North America, Katie Kerkhover.

Camille Kenny has been elevated to VP, A&R, where she will lead day-to-day management across the label’s artists as well as finding, signing, and developing new talent. Kenny joined the label in 2024 as Sr. Director, A&R. Her previous career stops include THiS Music, WME and Big Loud Records. While at Big Loud, she worked with Morgan Wallen, HARDY, Chris Lane, Jake Owen, MacKenzie Porter, Hailey Whitters and Lauren Watkins. Kenny can be reached here.

Jacee Badeaux has joined the label as Sr. Director, A&R, where he will find and develop rising artists, collaborate with the creative community, and guide the label’s roster. Badeaux comes from Big Yellow Dog, where he spent eight years. He started as Director, A&R before being elevated to Sr. Director in 2023. Badeaux has been named to MusicRow’s Next Big Thing and Nashville Briefings’ 30 Under 30 lists, and also serves as co-chair of AIMP Young Professionals Committee. Badeaux can be reached here.

Tahsin Rakib Himi has been upped to Director, A&R Research, where she will lead data-informed artist discovery and deliver insights to support roster additions across the U.S. Recorded team. Before moving to the label’s recording sector, she led the Analytics Engineering team, where she developed scalable data products, including royalty data models, automation tools and API-integrated dashboards, which are used by the global teams across royalties, streaming, and marketing. Her previous career stops also include Hearst Magazines and Vox Media. Himi can be reached here.

Kennedy Nickerson has been promoted to Manager, A&R, where she will collaborate on creative support to the roster as well as continue to elevate processes, project deliverables and more. A Belmont University graduate, Kennedy joined the label in 2020, as an Income Tracking Coordinator for two years, before here promotion to Sr. Coordinator, A&R. Previous career stops include Cornman Music and Big Yellow Dog Music. Nickerson can be reached here.

Talia Heimanson has joined the label as A&R Coordinator, where she will use her experience across record labels, talent agencies, and live music programming. In her new role, she will handle audio assets, as well as assist Kerkhover day to day. Heimanson joins the team after most recently being on the A&R team at Red Bull Records. Additional career stops also include UTA and UC Santa Barbara. Heimanson can be reached here.

“This expansion of our A&R team, with both exciting promotions and new hires, is a natural next step in the growth of BMG,” shares Kerkhover. “Our collective strength and unity are truly at the heart of what we do, allowing us to passionately elevate each artist’s unique vision and relentlessly focus on delivering the highest possible quality. Camille, Jacee, Kennedy, Himi and Talia are poised to continue achieving remarkable things, and I couldn’t be prouder of each of them.”

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