Lady Gaga Talent Scout, Wendy Starland, Discovered & Developed Grammy Winner - Meet Wendy Srtarland

NotBasicBlonde Podcast

This is a legendary episode on NotBasicBlonde Podcast! Wendy Startland is sharing her secrets on how she became successful in music career and life, shares Lady Gaga's story, how she has discovered & delevoped such a Star, gives an advice on which qualities you need to have in order to become the best at what you do.

Guest

Wendy Starland @wendystarland is an American singer, songwriter and music producer from Los Angeles. Starland was honored by The Songwriters Hall of Fame, was named VH1's, Best Emerging Artist, was featured on Moby's Grammy nominated album Last Night, and opened for Sheryl Crow and Jack White at the Michigan International Speedway. In addition, Starland discovered and developed 11-time Grammy, 2 time Golden Globe, and Oscar winning icon Lady Gaga. Starland developed Lady Gaga's career during the recording of Lady Gaga's album The Fame, which received Billboard's Album of the Decade – having logged 62 of its record-setting 108 total weeks at No. 1 on the Top Dance/Electronic Albums chart this decade.

Starland was named in the Beckhamhouse Book as one of the Great Female Singers alongside Aretha Franklin, Billie Holiday, Etta James, and Natalie Cole. Starland's single, "Dancing with the Sea", was released on Universal alongside Norah Jones, Feist, and Edie Brickell. The song hit number eight on the music charts giving her the opportunity to tour Europe. Starland signed a major music publishing contract with BMG Rights Management. Starland was a featured performer at MI Fest, opening for Sheryl Crow and Jack White. Starland also performed at the Cannes Film Festival at Cinemoi Network's charity event benefiting Children Uniting Nations with producer and DJ Paul Oakenfold, Ashlee Simpson, and Evan Ross. Wendy Starland performed with Kii Arens and James Bourne for Linda Perry’s Rock-N-Relief Concert. Both virtual and live performances took place at Dodger Stadium. In addition to Starland, the roster of talent also included legendary acts such the Foo Fighters, Sheryl Crow, deadmau5, Jewel, Ziggy Marley, Carly Simon, Perry Farrell, Macy Gray, James Blunt, Gavin Rossdale, Juliette Lewis, Tracy Bonham, Aloe Blacc and others.

​Starland was responsible for discovering 11-time Grammy winner Lady Gaga, and landed her a deal with a multi-platinum producer for Beyoncé, Jessica Simpson, Whitney Houston, and Britney Spears, that resulted in Lady Gaga signing major label record and publishing contracts.Starland and Lady Gaga wrote songs together while she helped to develop her brand and marketing strategy.

​Starland is a lead vocalist on Moby's album Last Night, which went to number two on the Billboard charts. She was also featured on Moby's follow up album, Last Night Remixed. Starland was featured on the Billy Ray Cyrus album, Thin Line. Starland has opened for Chris Shiflett of the Foo Fighters, Chris Cornell, Rachel Platten, Sean Paul, Gavin Degraw, Grandmaster Flash, Shawn Colvin, Vonda Shepard, Fishbone, The English Beat, Mike Posner, The Pointer Sisters, Karl Denson, The Romantics, Ronnie Dunn, Jonatha Brooke and Lucy Woodward. She also performed at the Toronto International Film Festival, at the premiere of Adrian Grenier's film Teenage Papparazzo in 2011.

​Starland has written and recorded songs with or for Snoop Dogg, Ben Lee, The Wu Tang Clan, Capone of Island Def Jam's Capone-N-Noreaga, and Apl.de.ap of the Black Eyed Peas, and American Idol winner, Maddie Poppe.

​Her music has been heard in film and television, including MTV's The Hills, Jersey Shore, Spiker, The Rules, Weekend Getaway, and promos for two NBC primetime series, Las Vegas and Hawaii. Starland has licensed over 100 songs to several networks, including MTV, Vh1, NBC, ABC, E!, CBS, and FOX. Her song "Reveal The Sunshine" was the theme song for the TV ad campaign for luxury cruise line, Cunard, a division of Carnival Cruise Lines. Starland performed, cowrote and co-produced the theme song for the Carmen Steffens ad campaign featuring Alessandra Ambrosio.

​Starland cowrote, performed and co-produced the theme song for the film, The Original. She composed the score and soundtrack to the television show, Stilettos, by the creators of True Detective. Additionally, Starland is writing and producing the score and soundtrack for the film A Love of Money, starring Samuel L. Jackson, Billy Bob Thornton, Jessica Biel and Eminem.

​Starland co-wrote and produced sixteen songs for the video game Rock Band 3 as well as Ubisoft's video game Rocksmith alongside the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, and Red Hot Chili Peppers on Xbox and PlayStation 3. Starland is a Featured Artist on the mobile app SongArc where she exclusively pre-released her song "Raven", co-written and produced by Ivo Moring.

​Starland produced and co-wrote the RapScallions hit song "Can You Feel It." The song has been lice