Scott Foster Siman is a leading American country music

Country music

Country music is a popular American musical style that began in the rural Southern United States in the 1920s. It takes its roots from Western cowboy and folk music...

 entertainment executive based in Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...

. He is president of RPM Management and co-owns RPM Music Group, a Nashville music publishing company. He previously managed country music stars Tim McGraw

Tim McGraw

Samuel Timothy "Tim" McGraw is an American country singer and actor. Many of McGraw's albums and singles have topped the country music charts with total album sales in excess of 40 million units in the US, making him the eighth best-selling artist, and the third best-selling country singer, in the...

 and Julianne Hough

Julianne Hough

Julianne Alexandra Hough is an American professional ballroom dancer, country music singer and actress. She is most widely known for being a two-time champion of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. She earned a Creative Arts Primetime Emmy nomination in 2007 for choreography...

.

Career

Siman co-owns RPM Music Group with Blake Chancey

Blake Chancey

Blake Chancey is an American record producer and music business executive, known primarily for his work in country music. Formerly an executive vice president and chief creative officer for Sony Music, he later formed a partnership with artist manager Scott Siman...

, which own the rights to such hit songs as "It's Five O'Clock Somewhere

It's Five O'Clock Somewhere (song)

"It's Five O'Clock Somewhere" is a song performed by Alan Jackson with Jimmy Buffett, and written by Jim "Moose" Brown and Don Rollins. It was released in June 2003 as the lead single from Jackson's 2003 compilation album Greatest Hits Volume II. It spent eight non-consecutive weeks at Number One...

" (Alan Jackson

Alan Jackson

Alan Eugene Jackson is an American country music singer, known for blending traditional honky tonk and mainstream country sounds and penning many of his own hits. He has recorded 13 studio albums, 3 Greatest Hits albums, 2 Holiday albums, 1 Gospel album and several compilations, all on the Arista...

), "I'm Movin' On

I'm Movin' On (Rascal Flatts song)

"I'm Movin' On" is the title of a song written by Phillip White and D. Vincent Williams, and recorded by the country music group Rascal Flatts on their self-titled debut album...

" (Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts

Rascal Flatts is an American country music band that originated in Columbus, Ohio, United States of America. Since its inception, Rascal Flatts has been composed of three members: Gary LeVox , Jay DeMarcus and Joe Don Rooney...

) and "Leave the Pieces

Leave the Pieces

"Leave the Pieces" is the title of a song written by Jennifer Hanson and Billy Austin, and recorded by American country duo The Wreckers. It was released as the duo's debut single, and served as the lead single for their debut album, Stand Still, Look Pretty on February 7, 2006.The single entered...

" (The Wreckers

The Wreckers

-Studio albums:-Live albums:-Singles:-Featured singles:^ Song was credited as Santana with Michelle Branch and The Wreckers.-Music videos:-Awards and nominations:-External links:***...

), among others. Recent hits include "What Kinda Gone

What Kinda Gone

"What Kinda Gone" is the title of a song recorded by American country music singer Chris Cagle. It was released in July 2007 as the first single from his album My Life's Been a Country Song, which was released in early 2008...

" (Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle

Chris Cagle is an American country music artist. Signed with Virgin Records Nashville in 2000, Cagle made his debut on the Billboard Hot Country Singles & Tracks charts with the single "My Love Goes On and On", the first single from his debut album Play It Loud...

), "Anything Goes

Anything Goes (Randy Houser song)

"Anything Goes" is a country music song written by Brice Long and John Wiggins, and recorded by American country music singer Randy Houser. It was released in May 2008 as Houser's debut single, as well as the lead-off single to his debut album, also titled Anything Goes.- Content :"Anything Goes"...

" (Randy Houser

Randy Houser

Shawn Randolph "Randy" Houser is an American country music artist. Signed to the Universal South Records label in 2008, he charted the single "Anything Goes" that year...

), and Montgomery Gentry

Montgomery Gentry

Montgomery Gentry is an American country music duo composed of vocalists Eddie Montgomery and Troy Gentry. The two began performing in the 1990s as part of a band which also included Eddie Montgomery's brother John Michael Montgomery, and founded the existing duo in 1999.Signed to Columbia Records,...

 singles "One in Every Crowd

One in Every Crowd

"One in Every Crowd" is a song recorded by American country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It is the third single released from their sixth studio album, Back When I Knew It All...

" "Long Line of Losers

Long Line of Losers

"Long Line of Losers" is a song recorded by American country music duo Montgomery Gentry. It is the fourth single released from their sixth studio album, Back When I Knew It All. Kevin Fowler who co-wrote this song also recorded this song on his 2007 album Bring It On, also released his version as...

" and "Oughta Be A Song About That." RPM has songs featured on the new albums from Jason Aldean, Darius Rucker and Steve Holy. RPM Music currently represents writers Aubrey Collins, Benji Harris, Nathan Stoops, and Matt Ramsey.

RPM Management currently represents Margaret Durante

Margaret Durante

Margaret Durante is an American country music singer. In 2009, Durante signed to Universal Republic and released a cover of Kings of Leon's 2008 single "Use Somebody". A year later, she left Universal Republic and signed to independent Emrose Records, an imprint of James Stroud's Stroudavarious...

 (R&J Records/Emrose), Alyssa Bonagura (Rondor Music), Yarn

Yarn

Yarn is a long continuous length of interlocked fibres, suitable for use in the production of textiles, sewing, crocheting, knitting, weaving, embroidery and ropemaking. Thread is a type of yarn intended for sewing by hand or machine. Modern manufactured sewing threads may be finished with wax or...

, Humming House and rising country group Scarletta and Bo Bice

Bo Bice

Harold Elwin "Bo" Bice, Jr. is an American singer and musician who placed second to Carrie Underwood in the fourth season of American Idol. He has recorded three studio albums, including one on RCA Records...

 in association with Rusty Harmon. RPM Management, which was affiliated with Front Line Management, counts among its former clients Shana Petrone, Carolyn Dawn Johnson, Jessica Andrews, Billy Gilman

Billy Gilman

William Wendell "Billy" Gilman III is an American country music artist. In 2000, at the age of 12, he debuted with the single "One Voice," a Top 20 hit on the Billboard country music charts and became the youngest singer to a Top 40 hit on the country music charts...

, Springer, the Warren Brothers and Lance Miller.

Siman was previously an entertainment attorney with Benson & Siman, whose clients included Alan Jackson, Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn

Brooks & Dunn was an American country music duo consisting of Kix Brooks and Ronnie Dunn, who were both vocalists and songwriters. They were paired by record producer Tim DuBois in 1990. Before the duo's foundation, both members of the duo were solo recording artists...

, Charlie Daniels

Charlie Daniels

Charles Edward "Charlie" Daniels is an American musician known for his contributions to country and southern rock music. He is known primarily for his number one country hit "The Devil Went Down to Georgia", and multiple other songs he has performed and written. Daniels has been active as a singer...

, Deanna Carter, James Stroud, Paul Worley and Chips Moman. He worked with such diverse artists as Judson Spence

Judson Spence

Judson Spence is an American pop music singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist based in Nashville, Tennessee. He originally gained fame when he released his eponymously titled debut solo effort on Atlantic Records in 1988...

, Ben Folds

Ben Folds

Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and television personality. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Since the group disbanded, Folds has performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world...

, Will Owsley, Millard Powers

Millard Powers

Avery Millard Powers III is an American musician, songwriter, record producer, and grammy nominated recording engineer.-Early history:...

 and Jody Spence; as well as numerous executives and music publishers.

Siman later served as senior vice president of Sony Music-Nashville, where he signed the Dixie Chicks to their initial deal as well as writers Marcus Hummon ("One of These Days") and David Vincent Williams ("I'm Movin' On"). He previously managed country music star Tim McGraw where his guidance lead McGraw to be named Artist of the Decade securing more airplay than any artist in any format and guided two-time Dancing With the Stars

Dancing with the Stars

Dancing with the Stars is the name of several international television series based on the format of the British TV series Strictly Come Dancing, which is distributed by BBC Worldwide – the commercial arm of the BBC. Currently the format has been licensed to over 35 countries...

champion and actress Julianne Hough to a number 1 country album and multiple ACM Awards.

Siman is a past president and chairman of the board of the Academy of Country Music Awards (1996–2000).

Personal

Siman is the son of country music pioneer Si Siman, who was also in the talent and music publishing business and was an executive with Crossroads TV Productions, which created the first popular country music program on network television, Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee

Ozark Jubilee is the first U.S. network television program to feature country music's top stars, and was the centerpiece of a strategy for Springfield, Missouri to challenge Nashville, Tennessee as America's country music capital...

. His middle name is in honor of Ralph Foster

Ralph D. Foster

Ralph David Foster , was an American broadcasting pioneer and philanthropist who created the framework for Springfield, Missouri to challenge Nashville, Tennessee as the nation's country music capital during the 1950s...

, Crossroads TV's president and his father's mentor when he was born in Springfield, Missouri

Springfield, Missouri

Springfield is the third largest city in the U.S. state of Missouri and the county seat of Greene County. According to the 2010 census data, the population was 159,498, an increase of 5.2% since the 2000 census. The Springfield Metropolitan Area, population 436,712, includes the counties of...

.

He is a graduate of Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University

Vanderbilt University is a private research university located in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1873, the university is named for shipping and rail magnate "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided Vanderbilt its initial $1 million endowment despite having never been to the...

 and the University of Missouri

University of Missouri

The University of Missouri System is a state university system providing centralized administration for four universities, a health care system, an extension program, five research and technology parks, and a publishing press. More than 64,000 students are currently enrolled at its four campuses...

School of Law.
Scott Siman also has a daughter named Marion Siman, who is studying Italian and is training to be a pop singer.