Music is a universal media and a very vast field. When you are pursuing music, you learn to create your own compositions. Do you face opposition in your family while pursuing music as a career? It’s a very common problem, especially in India. But what you think of music as a career? What is the first thing that comes to your mind when you hear the word music? Ariana Grande? Justin Bieber? Shawn Mendes? Well, we won’t blame you. You see what you are shown.
Music is not only about going up and performing on stage and hyping up the crowd. There are a lot more career options in music than we think.
1. Vocalist/Performing Artist: Of course, the favourite most career in music. Becoming a singer is a dream of many. You need to practice your singing skills. Singing requires a lot of practice so get you a coach and get going.

2. Song Writer/Composer: It is not necessary that the singers write their own songs. There is a high possibility that they are singing the song composed by someone else. In short this is the job of a composer or song writer. A composer composes the melodies of the song and song writer adds lyrics to it or vice versa. You need to know the principles of music to break them and create new songs.

3. DJ: This is also one of the top careers in music. A DJ is the one who plays the songs and changes it to a party environment. A DJ should know how the working of music goes so as to keep changing it in live concerts, nightclubs, parties of bars.

4. Music Producer: The work of music producer is very important as he writes, produces, arranges and records the songs and give it all the necessary music elements that are needed. It is era of software music and a music producer should be well aware of how all the software work.

5. Sound Engineer: He is the one responsible to see that everything is working fine. During a concert he is responsible to see if all the inputs and outputs are working fine. He sees if the sound equipment or soundboards are working properly and are in sync or not. He is also responsible for sound mixing.

6. A& R Coordinator: How do you think underground singers and bands get recognition and a chance to go national? It is the job of an A& R coordinator to look for new talents. You will be required to attend concerts, music festivals and shows and scout new talents.

7. Music Therapist: Music therapy is a new field that is introduced in the medical background. It uses the power of music to cure various mental illness as well physical pains. Even though, this practice is used since thousands of years, it has recently gained recognition in the last century as a scientific method of healing many illnesses.

Other jobs in music include concert or music festival organizer, entertainment lawyer for music, instrument tuner or repairer, record label entrepreneur, roadie, artist manager, writer or journalist in music genre, field merchandiser, artist development and relations representative, music marketing representative, music web designer, consumer researcher, personal manager and many more. There are much more music career options than you can possibly think of.