Jonny Podell
| Jonny Podell | |
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| Background information | |
| Born | New York City |
| Occupation(s) | Music agent |
| Years active | 1969-present |
| Website | podelltalent |
Jonny Podell is an American music agent and owner of the Podell Talent Agency in New York.
Podell's clients include the Allman Brothers Band, Cyndi Lauper, Erasure, Peter Gabriel, Rosie O'Donnell and Yaz. He has also represented Teddy Pendergrass, George Harrison, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and David Blaine.
In 1997 Michael Gross, writing in New York Magazine, called Podell "one of the three most powerful agents" in the music business. Podell is the father of DJ Cassidy.
Podell was born in the Bronx, and attended Forest Hills High School in Queens. After high school he studied at Queens College, City College and New York University, and worked briefly as a teacher at PS 17 in Brooklyn.
Podell's first job as a music agent was with the Associated Booking Company in 1969. In 1973 he opened his own boutique agency, BMF Enterprises, representing Crosby Stills, Nash & Young, George Harrison, Alice Cooper, Lou Reed and Blondie. He later worked for the William Morris Agency, where in 1989 he became director of East Coast contemporary music.
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