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# Making The Entertainment Industry More Diverse, Representative [INTERVIEW]
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/making-the-entertainment-industry-more-diverse-representative-interview/
- Published: 2020-11-27T14:25:00.000Z
- Updated: 2020-11-27T13:35:10.000Z
- Description: In this interview, California-based music business entrepreneur David Franz discusses his own unique career journey, and the need to make the music business – and entertainment industry as a whole. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2020/11/making-the-entertainment-industry-more-diver
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In this interview, California-based music business entrepreneur David Franz discusses his own unique career journey, and the need to make the music business – and entertainment industry as a whole – more representative and diverse.

In this most recent piece from [MusicThinkTank](http://www.musicthinktank.com/?ref=hypebot.com), **Madison Frilot** chats with music industry entrepreneur David Franz about making the entertainment industry more representative.

*“*Can you tell us a story about what brought you to this specific career path?**

*Well, I tried to fight it. My parents didn’t realize that being a musician could be a real career. They pushed me towards being a doctor or an engineer and I went along with it. If the people around you don’t know that a career exists in something, they won’t tell you about it because they can’t – it’s not their fault, they just don’t know about it. I got into the engineering school at Virginia tech but I couldn’t stop making music. I was playing in bands and taking all the music courses that I could while trying to be an engineer. It just wasn’t sticking.”*

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