Kayvan Daragheh (aka Kayvan MD) is currently the Artist Relations Director @ Genius. He is a talent relations specialist with 4+ years in music journalism and over 250M views to content pieces he has worked on directly. He also has experience in live touring (CAA), artist management (Ashoka, Isaac Zale), and music production. Kayvan’s work at Genius has included everything from booking/pitching/interviewing talent for all of Genius original core video series + live events, booking talent for Genius’s branded content campaigns (past content campaigns have been with brands like Acura, HP, Burberry, Puma, HBO, Reebok, Tik Tok, and more), to signing artists as an A&R. Outside of his work at Genius Kayvan also curates playlists on Spotify and Audiomack, reviews independent artists music on twitch, and maintains a discord server of over 2,600 emerging artists, producers, and music fans.
Kayvan is passionate about community, diversity, and inclusion, helping tell artists stories accurately and candidly, and creating high quality engaging content.
