Greg Preston

“Creative artist development is the core of our mission,” says Greg Preston, founder and president of 822 Management. “Our job is to foster a full-service matrix in which musicians can find a safe space where they can realize their artistic vision, build their craft, learn from their mistakes, and ultimately savor their victories. Deploying three decades of experience in all aspects of the music business, 822 will bring backroom insight and experience to the job of aiding musicians as they find their voices and secure their commercial footing.”

Based in Jackson, Mississippi, Preston’s new management endeavor succeeds five years as an instructor at the University of Southern Mississippi’s College of Mass Communications and Journalism in Hattiesburg, where he taught classes focusing on record company operations, talent management, and the structure of the music business, and six years heading his agency Ignatius Talent Group, where he booked such acts as Blue Mountain, Cedric Burnside and Lightnin’ Malcolm, Alvin Youngblood Hart, and Michelle Malone.