Song Start is your free online digital music education platform designed to give everyone access to the necessary tools to thrive in the modern day music industry.

Tamar Kaprelian is an Armenian-American artist, activist, and music industry veteran. A Phi-Beta-Kappa and Summa Cum Laude graduate of Columbia University, she signed major recording contracts with RCA & Interscope Records and honed her craft with some of LA’s top songsmiths. Tamar founded Nvak Foundation in 2016 with the intention of bringing quality music education to under-served communities globally. In 2021, she launched an artist centric talent incubator and record label called Nvak Collective. Now, she’s partnered with Spotify and songwriter, Ali Tamposi, to launch Song Start, this innovative e-learning platform aimed to make music education easily accessible to millions of creatives globally.

Eric Leva is a songwriter from Massachusetts. At the age of 8, he was accepted to the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music to study piano. During the next decade of rigorous classical training, a handful of mainstream and indie records caught his ear. To cope with the pressure of the conservatory, Leva escaped by writing lyrics. Later, while studying at Berklee College of Music, the focus shifted to developing his songwriting craft. Postgrad, Leva won an award from the ASCAP Foundation, opening up opportunities to collaborate with artists and producers in the music industry (including releases by Kesha, Celeste, Pentatonix, AJ Mitchell, DNCE, Slander, Marshmello, etc). He continues to collaborate on a daily basis with some of the industry’s most celebrated creatives, constantly paying it forward through involvement in various music education initiatives around the world.

As a performing artist, songwriter, producer, sound engineer, and podcast host, Olivia has her fingerprint on every facet of the music industry. Olivia is a recent Summa Cum Laude graduate of NYU’s Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, and creates genre-melding alternative music that blends organic, acoustic sounds with electronic pop. She first entered the music industry scene as a songwriter back in 2016, and since then has garnered over 30 Million streams across her writing catalog, including her song “Above the Clouds” with SŸDE. In addition to assisting in writing Song Start’s curriculum, Olivia is Song Start’s Season 1’s Podcast Host.