Madeline Nelson is the Head of U.S. Independent Label Relations at Amazon Music. Additionally, Madeline is the founder of Heads Music, a boutique music management in New York City and co-founder of music licensing company, SodoMoodLab. Heads is led and staffed entirely by women, a reflection of Nelson’s dedication to making sure that women have a voice within the music industry.  Her dedication to her work and fighting for her beliefs has been forged through Nelson’s illustrious career in the music industry.

Her repertoire ranges from her work as manager of Grammy Award winning R&B supergroup Blackstreet in the 1990s, to her A&R work with Michael Jackson, to major label corporate executive as SVP of A&R at Sony Music, to her current management of Wyclef Jean. Most recently, the prestigious Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the most respected benchmark for creative excellence, announced Madeline as the Entertainment Lions for Music President for the 2024 awards season, scheduled to take place in June 2024 in Cannes, France.