At a time when Quebec music is popular in the international audiovisual market, Mitsou Gélinas and her husband, Iohann Martin, announce that they have acquired the artist development and music services company Ray-On.
Posted at 3:42 p.m.
The couple also acquired sister companies Harris & Wolff, a synchronization agency, and Maisonnette, which represents composers of screen music. The three brands will now be united in the Ray-On fold, located in Montreal.
“With this team, we are expanding our offer significantly to meet the growing demand from audiovisual producers,” Martin said in a statement on Tuesday.
Ray-On will therefore offer digital distribution, original music composition, synchronization, consultation, management and rights clearance services under one roof.
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Iohann Martin
The company claims to have made some 450 placements in the past five years, in film, television, advertising and video games. Broadcasters Amazon Prime, BBC, CRAVE, Netflix — Scarred by Sara-Danielle was recently heard in Emily in Paris — and Sony Pictures, as well as the Nike and Redbull brands, have dipped into the catalog of the Montreal agency.
The Ray-On family counts on artists such as Boogát, Claudelle, Gustafson, Jérôme Minière, Ramon Chicharron and TEKE:: TEKE. The box also represents the composers Philippe Brault (Maria Chapdelaine), Mathieu Vanasse (Plan B), Jean Massicotte (Antigone) and Serge Nakauchi Pelletier (Amber Alert) as well as the Dazmo collective (5and rank).
Mitsou Gélinas said she was happy that Ray-On could offer creators “a range of personalized services that promote the influence of their talent, both in Quebec and internationally. »
The Montreal agency was founded in 2017 by artistic director Denis Wolff. A member of the board of directors of the Society of Composers, Authors and Music Publishers of Canada (SOCAN), he resigned in April 2021 after being accused of assaulting a woman. Mitsou Gélinas and Iohann Martin became directors of the company on October 14.