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JUNE 2019
TAXI Road Rally 2018

Finding Time to Make More Music and Money
Part Three

Moderated by Michael Laskow
PANELISTS:
Matthew VanderBoegh, Keith LuBrant, Randon
Purcell, Marcus Cohen, and Terrell Burt
Matthew VanderBoegh is a full-time composer for film and television, specializing in
hip-hop, dramedy, tension, elimination, and
quirky instrumental cues. He started this journey in 2012 with no knowledge of how to make
music on his own, and within five years turned it
into his full-time job. His music has been placed
over 10,000 times, on more than 1,750 episodes
of 235 TV shows. He learned everything he
knows about this business from TAXI, and frequently collaborates with other TAXI members.
Keith LuBrant is a songwriter/composer
from New Jersey. He has performed at several
music conferences and festivals, and also has
had tracks used in more than 600 TV shows on
major television networks such as HBO, NBC,
CBS, ABC, MTV, VH1, and many others. Keith
also created music for Mattel Hot Wheels television campaigns, Philips Lighting, and several
online commercials. He is also the creator and
CEO of Composer Catalog, the popular software
that helps musicians keep track of their music
catalog.
Randon Purcell grew up playing classical
piano, which turned into writing and performing electronic music with a band through the
'90s and early 2000s with some small degree of
success. By 2014 he had changed focus to his
true passion of writing instrumental cues and
trailer music, which is where TAXI came in!
Since then he has written and licensed nearly
500 tracks with many different publishers
around the world and has enjoyed many placements on various television shows and promos
for major networks, including HBO, ABC, NBC,
CBS, Discovery, and many more. Some of his
promo placements include popular television

Michael Laskow (from the back) moderates the Making Time to Make More Music and Money panel at the 2018 TAXI Road Rally,
with panelists (left to right) Matthew VanderBoegh, Keith LuBrant, Randon Purcell, Marcus Cohen, and Terrell Burt.

shows, such as Gotham, Lucifer, Big Brother, NFL
Football, NCIS, and X-Files.
Randon is nearly 20 years-married and has three
boys at home. He's really happy to be here taking a break at the Road Rally. We're kidding,
Mrs. Purcell!!! He also works full-time as a software engineer and double-time as a coffee
enthusiast.
Marcus Cohen aka CaiNo is a professional
full-time vocalist/composer/producer/engineer
running his own successful studio; producing,
writing, and mixing for up and coming and seasoned artists since 2001. He has also had the
amazing opportunity to mix for some of the
music business's finest and most notable artists
including Carly Simon, Neil Diamond, Justin
Bieber, Bebe Winans, Kenny Loggins, and many
more. His songs, instrumentals, and mixes can
be heard all over the industry, on records as well
as on Film and TV. In 2016 Marcus joined forces
with his mother Sherry (a successful producer
and writer for advertising) to focus on writing
songs for music licensing, and they now have
well over 500 new songs signed and published in
the last two years alone. Marcus has been a
TAXI top 10 artist, SingerUniverse Vocalist of
the Month, and has had over 100 placements on
networks like MTV, E!, CBS, ABC, VH1, VICELAND, and more.

Terrell Burt is a rapper and songwriter who
can't remember a time when he didn't love
everything about music. Writing lyrics and
recording music on his computer as a hobby
during his teenage years has progressed into
Burt becoming a successful TAXI member with
placements in TV shows such as The Young and
the Restless (CBS), Keeping Up With the Kardashians (E!), Fuller House (Netflix), NCIS: New
Orleans (CBS), Love & Hip Hop: Atlanta (VH1),
Black Ink Crew (VH1), Genius: Picasso (National
Geographic), and Claws (TNT). While working
full-time for the county Tax Collector and still
pursuing music through film and TV
placements, Burt received his Masters of Business Administration from Saint Leo University
in the spring of 2017. In September of the same
year, he married his bride, Lindsay, who has
been an encouragement to him in these
pursuits.
So this is a question for all of you guys. I want
some input from each of you. Based on the reality
of where you are all at now, do you think it's a realistic expectation that you'll be earning a six-figure
income in the not-too-distant future? I mean, that
could be a couple years, could be five years. But in
the middle of your life, do you think that the day
will come where you'll be able to earn that kind of
income? Let me go down to Matthew.
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