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The Lavin Agency Speakers Bureau

A speakers bureau that represents the best original thinkers,
writers, and doers for speaking engagements.

The Arts / Music

Music

Here at Lavin we represent a diverse group of musicians and music speakers — songwriters, sound artists, composers, conductors, and seminal artists — who’ve helped shape how, and why, we listen today.

5 Music
Speakers

Vijay Gupta

Violinist | Artistic Director | Founder, Street Symphony | Author, Restrung (Grand Central Publishing, 2026)

Music speaks to people—touches people—in ways words alone cannot.

Patti Smith | Punk Rock Legend | National Book Award Winner | New York Times Bestselling Author of Just Kids, Year of the Monkey, and A Book of Days

Patti Smith

Punk rock legend in the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame | Author of Just Kids and Year of the Monkey | Winner of the National Book Award

The idea of redemption is always good news, even if it means sacrifice.

Jeff Chang

Social Historian, Cultural Critic & Community Organizer | Author, Water Mirror Echo: Bruce Lee and the Making of Asian America

Real solidarity and justice begins when we bring community into everything we do.

Hua Hsu

Pulitzer Prize-Winning author of Stay True | New Yorker staff writer | CBS Sunday Morning contributor

Telling our own stories enlarges the circumference of our imaginations.

Chuck Klosterman | Renowned Cultural Critic | Author of 12 Books, Including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

Chuck Klosterman

Renowned Cultural Critic | New York Times Bestselling Author of 10 Books, Including Sex, Drugs, and Cocoa Puffs

The goal of being alive is to figure out what it means to be alive.