Centricity Music
John Stokes is a VP of Marketing and Production at Centricity Music with over 15 years of experience in label and distribution sales and marketing. Prior to their current role, John held positions at companies such as Capitol Christian Music Group and EMI Christian Music Group, where John managed digital accounts sales, major account sales, and kids sales. Additionally, John has experience in field sales and marketing, telesales, and customer service roles at companies like Chordant Distribution. Before transitioning to the music industry, John worked as a road musician for Ronna Reeves, providing backing support on acoustic and electric guitar, fiddle, and vocals.
Centricity Music
"We launched a decade ago,” recalls Centricity Music VP of A&R John Mays, “when the music industry as we knew it was crumbling. The established labels—and I had just come out of one—were trying to figure out how to get ahead of the cataclysmic changes that were shattering the old business models. In hindsight, it was probably not the best time for someone to launch a new label. It was almost certainly not the best time to launch a new label that would be built from the ground up on a vision for relationship and patient, long-term, artist development. Not according to the conventional wisdom, anyway.” Now, ten years later, Centricity has grown into a lean and vibrant, three-pronged indie company with label, music publishing, and management divisions that operate cooperatively but autonomously under the same roof. Though they still boast one of the smallest artist rosters and highest staff-to-artist ratios in the business, they’ve fought hard to become a serious industry contender. The company is home to an impressive roster of artists and songwriters including, GRAMMY award winner Seth Mosley, Lauren Daigle, Jason Gray, Jordan Feliz, Unspoken, Aaron Shust, Jonny Diaz, Carrollton, JJ Weeks, and more.