Singer-songwriter, actor and fashion creative Jesse Jo Stark has signed with WME for worldwide representation in all areas. The agreement brings Stark’s music, screen work and fashion-facing profile under one agency relationship as she prepares to release her album Muse on Nov. 6.
Stark’s recent music activity includes dates opening for or performing with Post Malone, Guns N’ Roses and Jane’s Addiction, along with multiple festival appearances. Outside of recording and performing, she is co-creative director of Chrome Hearts and leads the clothing line Deadly Doll.
A worldwide, all-areas deal
In entertainment-industry terms, “worldwide representation in all areas” means an agency is positioned to represent a client across the professional fields covered by that client’s career, rather than being limited to one territory or a narrowly defined assignment. In Stark’s case, the announcement explicitly encompasses all areas, a broad framing that reflects her work across music, acting and fashion.
The news does not outline specific forthcoming projects beyond Muse, nor does it detail particular plans for touring, acting roles, partnerships or fashion releases. That distinction matters: agency representation establishes the business relationship through which opportunities may be pursued, but it is not itself confirmation of a particular album campaign, concert run, screen project or brand collaboration.
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What is clear is that the deal arrives at a point when Stark’s work is visible in several adjacent creative spaces. Her performance history connects her with major rock and pop bills, while her ongoing positions at Chrome Hearts and Deadly Doll give her a continuing presence in apparel and design. A single worldwide representative can help coordinate an artist’s wider career when multiple disciplines overlap, while the artist’s individual projects remain separate endeavors.
‘Muse’ is the immediate music milestone
Muse is due Nov. 6 and is the central near-term release named alongside Stark’s new representation. The supplied details do not identify a track list, collaborators, label, running order, formats or tour dates tied to the record. As a result, those elements remain unannounced here.
Still, the timing gives the agency signing a practical context. Album releases concentrate attention around an artist’s recorded work, and Stark enters that window with recent appearances alongside Post Malone, Guns N’ Roses and Jane’s Addiction already part of her live résumé. Opening slots and shared bills place an artist before audiences that may not have encountered their music previously; festival appearances can do the same on a larger multi-artist program. Neither type of appearance automatically indicates future collaborations with the headliners, and no such collaboration has been stated.
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The phrase “opening for or performing with” is also worth reading precisely. It confirms Stark’s participation on dates involving those acts, but it does not specify the exact role on every date, how many dates were involved, or whether every appearance took the same form. The announcement supports the broader point that Stark has been actively appearing in live settings ahead of Muse.
Fashion work remains part of Stark’s public identity
Stark’s creative work is not confined to music. She is identified as Chrome Hearts’ co-creative director and as the person behind Deadly Doll. Those roles provide a second, distinct professional foundation alongside her work as a singer-songwriter and actor.
Chrome Hearts and Deadly Doll are mentioned as current facets of Stark’s career, not as products of the WME agreement. The representation deal does not announce a new Chrome Hearts collection, a Deadly Doll launch or a crossover project between either fashion venture and Muse. Readers should therefore separate confirmed background from possible future developments: Stark’s fashion work is established context, while the concrete newly announced development is the worldwide WME relationship.
That separation is especially useful in a multi-disciplinary career. An artist can have parallel credits in music, acting and design without every new business arrangement changing each of those operations. The immediate facts are straightforward: Stark has signed with WME; Muse arrives Nov. 6; and her existing professional portfolio includes Chrome Hearts and Deadly Doll.
Other music-business developments
Elsewhere in the music sector, executive Rebecca Allen is leaving Universal Music Group U.K. after 27 years and will remain involved in an advisory capacity. Her exit follows a series of leadership positions across the company’s U.K. operations.
After EMI and Island merged in July 2024, Allen became president of the resulting Audience & Media division. She was subsequently elevated in December 2025 to chief artist and strategy officer, a role described as newly created. Before that, she had been president and then co-president of the relaunched EMI alongside Jo Charrington. She was also president of Decca from 2017 to 2020, becoming the first woman to hold the presidency of a Universal Music U.K. label.
In a farewell message to staff, Allen reflected on the relationships and experience of her 27-year tenure. Her decision to continue as an adviser means the transition is not described as a complete departure from the company, although the scope and duration of that advisory work have not been specified.
Omar Geles catalog agreement covers more than 300 works
Sony Music Publishing Colombia has entered a global catalog administration agreement with the estate of Colombian singer, songwriter and accordionist Omar Geles. The agreement covers more than 300 works written by Geles, including “Cuatro Rosas,” “A Blanco y Negro,” “Tu Hombre Soy Yo” and “Tarde lo Conocí.”
Catalog administration concerns the management of a songwriter’s body of compositions. The supplied announcement frames the agreement around preserving, promoting and expanding the reach of Geles’ work for future audiences. It concerns the songs Geles wrote, which is a different side of music rights from an artist’s recorded performances.
Geles is described as a major figure in vallenato, a Colombian music tradition. The deal’s global structure signals an effort to administer the covered compositions beyond a single domestic market, while the precise operational details of that administration are not provided.
Richard King becomes Music Publishers Association board chair
The U.K.’s Music Publishers Association has selected Faber Music chief executive Richard King as its board chair for a three-year term. King succeeds Paulette Long OBE, who remains a board director after completing her time as chair.
King has led Faber Music since 1999 and brings more than 25 years of publishing leadership to the role. His background spans classical music, film and television, pop, and printed music. He previously served as an MPA director from 2002 to 2019, returned to the board in 2022, spent 18 years as a PRS director through 2022, served nine years as a PRS Foundation director through 2024, and has been a PML director since its 2012 formation.
His stated priorities include strengthening the publishing sector’s voice on issues affecting members and ensuring that recently announced U.K. music and music-education plans result in sustained change. Peter Jackson, who joined the association as managing director in July, will work alongside King.
What the Stark deal confirms—and what it does not
- Confirmed: Jesse Jo Stark has signed with WME for worldwide representation in all areas.
- Confirmed: Her album Muse is set for Nov. 6.
- Confirmed: Her recent performance activity includes dates associated with Post Malone, Guns N’ Roses and Jane’s Addiction, plus festival appearances.
- Confirmed: Stark is Chrome Hearts co-creative director and leads Deadly Doll.
- Not specified: New acting work, a dedicated tour, album collaborators, release formats, fashion collections or other projects resulting from the representation agreement.
For now, the key development is a broad new agency relationship arriving just ahead of Muse. It formalizes representation around a career that already spans recording, live performance, acting and fashion, while leaving the next specific projects to be announced in their own time.
