BIO

Bruno Boutleux had known various other existences before he became the Chief Executive of ADAMI in 2008. Firstly employed as a teacher, he then worked in radio, played a part in the Trans Musicales music festival and then in the 1980s became an events promoter himself, within a company called Turbulence. He subsequently joined the team at the Centre of Information for Rock and Varieties (CIR) to create the Rock Action and Initiative Fund (FAIR), one of the tools set up as part of Jack Lang’s “rock plan”.
 

In 1991 he became director of the CIR, which would later become the Centre of Information and Resources for Contemporary Music (IRMA). In 1995, he was named director of the Musical Creation Fund (FCM), a body financed by the music world’s civil societies with funds raised out of the equitable remuneration received for private copying. He would remain there for 7 years before joining, in 2002, the Musical Youth of France (JMF), overseeing a change in its political direction and a turnaround in its finances. Principally a hands-on man, he created and now runs MILA, a hotbed of independent music companies based in Paris.