Jonathan Finegold Is the founder of Fine Gold Music; a music licensing and publishing company. He represents many indie labels/artists/publishers including Westbound (Funkadelic), Luaka Bop (William Onyeabor), Anderson .Paak, Roc Nation, and Eminem.
His licensing work has been heard in ads for the Apple iPhone (x2), Nike, Spotify, Cadillac, and more. Movies & trailer work includes Furious 7, The Big Short, Booksmart, Dolemite is My Name, Thor Ragnorak, Moneyball, and more. TV shows include: Ray Donovan, Mayans, Homeland, Mad Men, Narcos, The Chi and many more.
He has served as music supervisor on many indie films & documentaries. His credits include Little Richard: I Am Everything (Magnolia/CNN Films), Netflix docuseries Lenox Hill. He works with John Legend’s film/TV production company Get Lifted, where he supered the HBO documentary Southern Rites. Other recent released films include The Truffle Hunters (Sony Classics) which world premiered in 2020 at Sundance and the Spotify podcast “Wind of Change”.
He is currently an adjunct instructor at Marymount Manhattan College where he is also the Music Industry Minor Coordinator. He previously taught at the Clive Davis Dept. of Recorded Music in NYU’s Tisch School. He’s a Grammy voting member of NARAS for over 25 years and a voting member of the Guild of Music Supervisors.