Who We Are
Christopher Starr, Founder & CEO of CSP Music Group is a record producer that has his finger on the pulse of the next generation of aspiring new artists. Starr, a veteran of the business and his team have been instrumental in producing songs for upcoming and award-winning artists like Mary J. Blige, Christina Aguilera, Ariana Grande, Chris Brown, Jennifer Lopez, Damita Haddon and many more.
CSP is an independent record label and music production company that caters to independent and signed recording artists. The new generation of music-makers are following in the footsteps of pioneers such as Mackelmore and Adele who are proving that artists of today no longer need the financial backing of the major record label. By investing in their own careers, such artists are able to make it to the top strictly based on their fan base and music alone. The artist remains in control with a team of people who understand their branding, their fans, and their dream.
CSP Music Group provides all the services an artist needs, in one location; to produce, create, market, distribute, promote, and brand their music. Under the CSP Music Group umbrella, a diverse team of seasoned industry professionals combine thought-out marketing campaigns to help artists launch their careers. The company offers affordable industry standard services, tailored to a flexible payment plan, which delivers quality services and full packaging, equal to any major record label. Instead of waiting for a major label to believe in your music, you can become your own boss, invest in your own career, and take your music directly to the fans. CSP Music Group is offering an exciting, different, new, and inspiring approach for independent artist who want to remain in control in today's industry.
We offer everything an artist needs from management, songs, production, recording studios, photo shoots, marketing, electronic press kits, and so much more. We take time to evaluate every artist on an individual basis to outline a game plan that is strategically set for them. This is why a consultation is required.
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History and Industry Credits
Early Beginnings:
In 1996, Christopher Starr set out to build a successful music career spanning over 20 years in the music industry. Partnering with other highly successful music industry executives, Starr along with his team went on to establish their early beginnings with B-Rich Productions and Baby Honey Records. Over the years, he continued to expand himself in the ever changing recording industry with the rise of digital downloads, and the decline of albums sales. While many companies fell under the pressure of the times, he continued to innovate by creating and developing new opportunities. Together they established successful platinum and gold albums on Boyz II Men, Next, J Kwon, Sounds of Blackness, and many more. They've also worked with some of the most prominent record labels that include Sony Music, Motown, Arista, and Warlock Records just to name a few.
In 1999, Starrtraxx Music Productions (which later changed it’s name to CSP Music Group) began as a music production company which produced, engineered, composed, and/or wrote songs for artist such as Christina Aguilera, Mary J Blige, Dawn Richard (D. Woods) of the MTV show Making the Band and later of girl group Danity Kane; LaTocha Scott of Xscape, Damita Haddon (Chandler), Yung L.A, Marcus Canty of the Fox tv show X Factor, Gorilla Zoe , the R&B group Next, Flyte Tyme Entertainment (Grammy Award winners Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis) and hit-making producer Lance Alexander (Michael Jackson, Boyz 2 Men, Next, Lo Key).
Current Day
In 2013, CSP Music Group decided to expand from a music production company to a one stop multi-faceted independent label and music production company. Using their established industry connections, they were able to offer unsigned artist the same opportunities as signed artist. Today, CSP Music Group and his team have gained recent credits with artist such as Chris Brown from the album X (Chris Brown album), song entitled Drunk Textin' featuring Jhene Ako, as well as Jennifer Lopez's most current album A.K.A. (album) in which Steven Franks produced the title track A.K.A. featuring T.I. CSP Music Group also expanded into working with Reality TV which included an appearance on VH1's Love and Hip Hop Atlanta as well as a single release inspired by the show with reality star Karlie Redd featuring Headkrack from the Fox network tv show Dish Nation.
As the climate in the music industry evolved, it became evident that major record companies were no longer investing big budgets to develop their acts and that most of the deals that were made by the labels usually benefited the earnings of the record company more than the artist. Since artists needed to maintain a higher percentage of their profits from album sales - the need for an artist to sign with a major label had changed. That transformation encouraged the value of having the support of an independent label to become a necessity; which inspired Christopher to launch CSP Music Group.
In 2014, CSP expanded their downtown office space and state-of-the-art recording studio in Atlanta, GA and formed a full service in-house, one-stop multi-faceted independent label and music production company inspired by Motown. This created a platform for artists who chose to focus their time and creativity on their music, and maintain creative control of their own finances and their work. CSP Music Group was able to successfully change the original formula for how recording artist are signed in today's music industry.
Under the CSP Music Group umbrella, Starr supervises a diverse team of seasoned industry professionals who combine thought-out marketing campaigns to help artists launch their careers. The company offers affordable industry standard services, tailored to a flexible payment plan that delivers quality services and full packaging, equal to any major record label.
The services that the CSP team offers include A&R, radio promotions, graphic design, video, publicity, viral marketing, music production, mixing and mastering, artist development, distribution and social media platforms. The company uses its resourceful contacts, equal to that of a major label, to help clients releasing their music worldwide, compete with other top-charting artists.
Christopher recognized that the depth of his skills allowed him to share his expertise and provide guidance to a generation of undiscovered singers and songwriters aspiring to be in the business of music.
Mason J Records
CSP Music Group is currently growing their newly founded independent label Mason J Records that is a subsidiary label of CSP Music Group. Mason J Records allows artist to have more creative expression and works with artist within a partnership where the artist remains in creative and personal control.