Radish Music is opening up a roster position for Emmy and Grammy-nominated music supervisor Kier Lehman, further propelling his growth in the advertising space.
A five-time winner of the Guild of Music Supervisor awards, Lehman has forged a decades long career across film and TV, with credits including everything from The Lego Movie to HBO’s Insecure, a show for which he earned an Outstanding Music Supervision Emmy nomination in 2020. His work on the Academy Award-winning Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse contributed to the soundtrack’s success, with its hit single “Sunflower” having just achieved double diamond status with sales of over 20 million units. The soundtrack earned a Grammy nomination in 2020.
Lehman has also built up a commercial portfolio, notably working with Radish Music’s founder Peymon Maskan on Apple’s “Shot on iPhone” and “The Rock x Siri Dominate The Day,” as well as completing projects for Spotify and Peloton.
In his new role, Lehman will continue his development in advertising, able to keep his focus on the creative thanks to the support of the Radish’s coordination, administration, account management, music strategy, and licensing services.
Lehman commented, “I’ve known Peymon for close to 20 years, during which time we’ve become great friends and collaborators–we worked together on commercials while he was at TBWAMedia Arts Lab, and I hired him to music supervise a film while I was an executive at Sony Pictures. We have a similar ear for music and how it works combined with visual storytelling, and this feels like the perfect time to join forces again. Now I get the benefit of being able to plug into Radish’s existing experience so I can focus on bringing creative ideas and fresh perspective to advertising.”
Maskan added, “At the heart of Radish Music, we love to harness music to tell stories of all lengths–film, TV, commercial–which gives us access to music from both inside and outside the normal advertising channels. It’s super important to us that we’re constantly accessing new music sources to keep things fresh for our advertising clients. As a constant innovator with an impeccable ear, Kier’s the perfect fit, and we’re so excited to bring his sound to this side of storytelling. He’s also a great person, which is a prerequisite for anyone on the team.”
