About

The thread connecting everything is the same: support artists and their recordings.

Ben Yonas is a music producer, artist manager, and professor based in Atlanta, GA. He’s produced sessions with artists from Yasiin Bey (Mos Def) to The Bar-Kays, managed 14 touring acts, placed music in film and television, and taught the next generation how to do all of it at a university level.

Through Yonas Media, he runs an independent music management and production company — a cooperative launching pad for musicians who have an original approach to creating and performing music. The roster includes The Sensational Barnes Brothers, Jeremy Kittel, Making Movies, Los Rakas, The Bar-Kays, Sachal Vasandani, and eight other touring acts, backed by a team of 12 handling booking, tour marketing, tour management, and sync licensing.

He created ATL Sync, a sync licensing company rooted in Atlanta’s music scene, connecting world-class artists with licensing opportunities in film, television, commercials, and video games. The catalog includes artists like Lupe Fiasco, K Camp, and Young MC. He also founded Crosstown Sync with Crosstown Arts in Memphis.

At Georgia State University’s School of Music, he co-directs MTM, the university’s music industry program. His students run MTM Standard, a student-led music distribution and sync licensing company. The classroom isn’t theory. It’s the same operation, with students in the room.