Does anyone know what or where to find average session singer rates?
Professional singer.
Project: Commercial client (not advert) work.
It depends entirely on what musician’s local you’re in. A good friend of mine is a session player in LA (percussion) and I’ve heard him say the current rate is $100/hour. If you look at the LA website, however, it appears the rate is much higher than that, so I’m a bit confused.
In my mind, at our level – professional but not LA, NY, or Nashville, $50/hour seems about right
My singer will do the occasional session at between 100$ and 150$ an hour.
$125 per track, $25 per backing track. One free modification (“Sing it in 9/8 time, please!” … “OK, like this, 'Taco Taco Taco Burrito”?) then $25 per modification beyond that.
There are a bunch of other “on-line” session singer services too, I believe.
Anyone ever use them?
What do you need?
From my client:
I am also trying to find a tenor in your area since I will be there. I have used singers from NYC recently but I hope to find someone who can handle semi classical and a more folk sound. Imagine someone singing “Swanee River” and “John Henry” convincingly.
Cool… Thats just what I needed. Looking for locals for some projects. 