Think of us like a boutique streaming site for music listening and licensing. Spotify revolutionized, and ultimately has dominated, the music streaming market because of their user-friendly search and discovery tools.

Seven Seas Music works the same way. We source the best international music from around the globe and host it on a searchable site for easy access by our users -- media producers for film, TV, ad agencies, trailer houses, VR and gaming companies, etc. We make discovery and licensing of distant talent fast, easy, and streamlined.

We’re proud to empower both sides, producers and artists, to deliver memorable audio-visual experiences, and support international artists to keep creating unique works.

Read on to see how Seven Seas Music works, and learn about the great traction we’ve had since launch including landing big name customers like CNN, HBO, NBC Universal Television, ABC Studios, and 20th Century Fox!

Finding international music is hard. Finding the copyright holders is even harder.

Seven Seas Co-Founder, Brooke Wentz is a recognized and awarded producer of international music with a rolodex of contacts that weren’t being fully maximized. So she decided to build a platform where other media producers could benefit, and her international contacts could have access to the entirety of Hollywood; not just her.

There’s an incredible wealth of unique content out there, but no easy way to access it.

Brooke’s knowledge of how to find international music and rolodex of contacts weren’t being fully maximized. So she decided to build a platform where other media producers could benefit, and her international contacts could have access to the entirely of Hollywood, and not just her.

This was the beginning of Seven Seas Music.

In addition to solving the main pain point of many media producers not having access to authentic music from other countries, Seven Seas Music also addresses current, more specific, market needs.

Our platform’s functionality may seem similar to Radio Garden, the “Google Earth of Radio,” but they only aggregate radio stations. Seven Seas users can listen to a vast library of international songs with robust metadata giving song title, country, language, genre, and instrument choice. The Company is also in touch with the copyright holders to license songs.

Additionally, demand for a service like Seven Seas is only continuing to rise as more and more TV shows are being produced in other countries -- e.g. SURVIVOR, Bones, Parts Unknown, Criminal Minds, etc.

Hollywood has always been a reflection of reality and as we continue to deal with more complex global issues, more film and TV storylines are being written about international subjects. Think of movies like Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, and No Escape, for example. Projects like these will continue to rise and need relevant international music to set the scene.

Seven Seas Music is uniquely qualified to address these growing needs because of our deep catalog of hard-to-find music built up over decades in the music licensing industry, our patent pending search and discovery tools, and a founding team that has the connections and industry experience to develop a value proposition that works for all partied involved.

Seven Seas Music centralizes music in one place where a filmmaker or ad agency can search by country, language, genre, instrument, or mood and get a license to use it in their production within 24 hours.  

Our platform currently hosts over 20,000 hard-to-access songs that are easily findable through the following features:

Recommendation Lists: A list of songs that are custom curated for a potential licensee of music by our experts.

Geotagging: Seven Seas categorizes music based upon where it is produced in the world. We store the longitude and latitude of each region and assign songs to each region by tagging them.

Tagging Search: The Seven Seas music collection is digitally archived and stored with appropriate metadata. This metadata can be searched through specific tags or through autocompletion of words if the user doesn't know exactly what they are looking for.

The end result is a game-changing solution for both media creators and artists.

Media creators find their story’s voice by curating the perfect soundtrack for their film or project. They can make and share playlists with their team, and when they’re ready to license, the music is fully cleared and ready for commercial use.

Artists get their music in front of a global community of media creators. You can showcase your music whether you are an independent label or individual artist.

Seven Seas Music is an active, revenue generating company with over 500 customers. Our first main client was Anthony Bourdain’s Parts Unknown in March 2015.

Today, current customers include CNN, HBO, NBC Universal Television, ABC Studios, 20th Century Fox, By the Beach Productions, Cinelou Films, Coup Pictures, Ralph Smyth Entertainment, CBS, GoPro, Lateral Films, LAX (La Cross) United Marketing, Liberty Spikes Productions, Pacific 2.1 Entertainment Group, Sherpa Cinema, Sony Pictures Studios, The Richards Group, Universal Television, Vice Media, VTV Productions, and Zero Point Zero Productions.

We also have partnerships with CNN, Vice, and GoPro, and as of 2017, we will enter into the travel market with partnerships with United and American airlines and others in the hospitality industry.

After meeting our team below, make sure to request access to the business plan tab of this profile for inside look into Seven Seas Music and learn how you can get involved!

Maryam Soleiman, Co-Founder & COO, oversees the day-to day affairs of the Company, as well as provides assistance to our film and new media clients with issues concerning rights and clearances, music licensing, and copyright law. She and co-founder, Brooke Wentz, have also worked together for nearly a decade as music supervisors for The Rights Workshop. Prior to teaming up with Brooke, she worked for Live Nation administering the breadth of Live Nation's intellectual property assets. She also draws from her experiences working with artists at two leading Los Angeles-based music law firms. She brings with her a deep understanding of the entertainment and music industries and is an experienced liaison between artists, record companies, publishers and managers. She holds a J.D. from California Western School of Law and a B.A. from UCLA.

Seven Seas Music is also lead by Co-Founder & CEO, Brooke Wentz.

After receiving an MBA at Columbia Business School, and overseeing A&R Administration at Arista Records, Brooke traveled throughout East and West Africa. Her experience lead to producer, a 3-CD compilation of African music entitled: Africa: Never Stand Still. This set, as well as the prior Billboard Award winning 4-CD compilation Global Meditation: Authentic Music from Meditative Traditions Around of the World, won her accolades for years, and established her credentials as a truly tasteful discoverer of global sounds.

Brooke then went on to produce the noted 3-CD release Global Divas for the Fourth World Conference on Women, and a 2-CD book set Music of Forgotten Worlds for the UN’s Year of Indigenous People.

In between these producing ventures, Brooke accepted the position of Music Director for ESPN, which entailed upholding the legal policies of the network as it pertained to music rights.

After serving as Music Supervisor for New York City’s Times Square Millennium Celebration, Brooke moved to San Francisco, where she opened The Rights Workshop where she has licensed and supervised the soundtracks for scores of renowned documentaries and independent films, including “Melancholia,” “Bill Cunningham: New York” and “Awake—The Life of Yoganda." This work inspired her to start Seven Seas Music so media producers could access international music.

Rounding out the team is...

William Chow, Head Technologist, a former engineer and software developer at Visa, CNET Networks, and SanDisk.

Matt Holt, Lead Content Manager, formerly at Amazon, InGrooves, and IODA.

Andre Comeau, Senior Creative Services, formerly at BMG, BUG music and North Star Media, and former member of MTV's Real World.

Chloe Goshay, Label & Client Relationship Manager, formerly at Xerox, Healthy Community, and Project Cure.

Sanaz Alesafar, Project Manager, formerly at Participant Media, SafeZone Film, and New Economy Campaigns.