While many artists, musicians and filmmakers are taking to crowd-funding sites like Kickstarter and IndieGoGo to raise money to produce their independent projects, Washington, DC “artistic entrepreneur” Kayona Ebony Brown has decided to think outside the box. For the last two years, Kayona has been developing a television series entitled, Of Music & Men, based in-part on her own life as the young, female owner of a fledgling independent record company in Washington, DC, who like most single women, find navigating the DC dating scene to be quite the rollercoaster ride. The show aims to capture the same elements as hits like Entourage and Sex & the City balancing friendship, dating and careers.
As an actress and writer, Kayona has worked with many of the area’s filmmakers and has experienced first-hand just how difficult funding such projects can be. So, in an effort to do something new that none of her filmmaker friends had ever tried, Brown created, developed and designed The OMAM Fund (The Of Music and Men Fund), a fundraising initiative that uniquely blends crowd-funding and investing with a traditional e-commerce website that sells promotional merchandise and other products. The Of Music & Men Fund (OMAM) is a business initiative created and designed by Kayona Ebony Brown that supports the growth of the television show (in production), Of Music & Men. The OMAM Fund is a very unique effort that blends fundraising, marketing, e-commerce and investing.
Of Music & Men is a comedy-drama about Kenya Shaw, a good-hearted, ambitious twenty-something trying to build her own successful record label with no money, no connections and help, while also juggling colorful encounters with the opposite sex as she navigates the most unlikely town for both music and men: Washington, DC.
Of Music & Men
Kayona Ebony Brown
