Billie Eilish and Finneas Join Jason Owen’s Sandbox Management
variety.comJem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Billie Eilish and her brother/collaborator Finneas have left their managers of a decade, Danny Rukasin and Brandon Goodman’s Best Friends Music Management, for Jason Owen’s Sandbox Entertainment, which reps Kacey Musgraves and Kelsea Ballerini, Eilish’s rep confirms to Variety.
While the move comes as a surprise given the peaks of commercial and critical success the two have reached with the close-knit team that has been with them since the start — also including Darkroom and Interscope Records and longtime publicist Alexandra Baker, not to mention the siblings’ parents, who have played a huge role in their careers — rumors began circulating last year that the pair would be leaving Best Friends.
Eilish herself has won nine Grammy Awards and 32 nominations, and two best song Academy Awards, with Finneas sharing in most of those and winning the producer of the year Grammy himself in 2020, as well as pursuing an active solo career.
The Best Friends roster includes fast-rising Interscope singer-songwriter Role Model and British vocalist Mimi Webb. The news was first reported by The Hollywood Reporter and Hits.
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