
LUCAS KELLER
President / Founder
Los Angeles
- ‘Great Things Could Come From This’: Lucas Keller on Why Milk & Honey Isn’t Slowing Down Amid Pandemic (Guest Column)
- 40 Under 40: Billboard Reveals Music’s Top Young Power Players of 2018
- Milk & Honey Founder Lucas Keller on Keeping Spotify in Check, Shunning Contracts and Why Indie Is Best
- Milk & Honey, My World MGMT, Third and Verse Open Nashville Offices: Exclusive
- Billboard Change Agents: Leaders Stepping Up In A Year of Turmoil
- Billboard LGBTQ+ Movers & Shakers in the Music Industry 2023
- Why K-Pop’s Success Transcends Hit Singles
- Billboard Reveals Music’s Top Young Power Players of 2018
- Milk & Honey Founder Lucas Keller On Keeping Spotify In Check
- Billboard’s Music & Sports Power Players 2025
- Billboard’s Top Ballers
- Milk & Honey Hires Andrew Goldstone
- How John Legend And Alec Benjamin Hitmakers Went From Music Producers To Entrepreneurs
- Meet The Team Behind The New Picasso NFT Series With John Legend
- Music Management Firm Milk & Honey Launches Sports Division, Signs 15 NFL Players
- Milk & Honey Expands Management Roster With Baseball Division Led By Industry Vet Kyle Thousand
- Milk & Honey acquires VMG Sports – Adding Travis Kelce and 14 more NFL players to its roster
- ‘Lots of people told me that managing songwriters and producers wasn’t a real business.’
- Milk & Honey makes a statement with its new UK office – next door to Universal Music Group and Google
- Lucas Keller: My Manifesto
- Nic Warner named partner at Milk & Honey Management
- Lucas Keller On Ambition, Songwriters, BMI
- Why I’m Doubling Our Investment In The UK Music Industry
- Milk & Honey signs trio of new clients, All Songwriter/Producers behind chart hits
- I Love LA… and I’m angry at those you mocked us in our darkest moment.
- Writer-Producer management is a different ball game , it’s a day-to-day hustle
- Milk & Honey now represents Travis Kelce and 80 other sports stars – but it’s world still ‘revolves around the songwriter’
- From Creating ‘Dynamite’ to Making ‘Memories,’ 5 Music-Producer Managers to Know
- Adam Lambert, Troye Sivan, Gay Hitmakers Talk Homophobia in the Industry
- Milk & Honey Roster Dominates Pop Radio With Seven Songs in the Top 40
- Milk & Honey Management Signs Producer-DJ Oliver Heldens
- Hitmaker J White Did It Signs With Milk & Honey Management
- How Teasing Tunes on TikTok Screws Songwriters
- The Album Is in Deep Trouble – and the Music Business Probably Can’t Save it
- She Spent Two Years Writing for an Acclaimed Album — and Made Only $4,000
- How Music Copyright Lawsuits Are Scaring Away New Hits
- Songwriters Are Tired of Having Their Money Taken, By Artists
- A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything
ABOUT
Established in 2014, Milk & Honey Music + Sports + Ventures is a 21st-century hybrid entertainment management company based in Los Angeles, New York, Nashville, Dallas and London. The company was launched by Founder and President Lucas Keller, a 22-year veteran of the music industry who in 9 years has built one of the biggest global management companies for songwriters, producers, artists and athletes. Milk & Honey is a traditional management company for the music division, and an agency and marketing company on the sports side.
The company quickly became known as kings of the songwriter and producer management world, with a strong foundation of hit songs representing the people who make them. With over a billion albums sold in aggregate, run a finger down the Billboard Hot 100 in any given week and you’ll quickly find a song penned or produced by a Milk & Honey songwriter, from David Hodges to Oak Felder, Stuart Price to J. White Did It, Jamie Hartman to Andres Torres & Mauricio Rengifo, Jenna Andrews, and more.
Counting 1800 shows on tour in 2025, the company also represents artists in the electronic music space with artists like Oliver Heldens Benny Benassi, Joel Corry, Sullivan King and nearly 20 others managed out of both the US and London offices. The company’s clients have had some of the biggest global hits of the century, including Dua Lipa’s “Levitating,” BTS’ chart-topping “Butter,” Luis Fonsi, Daddy Yankee and Justin Bieber’s “Despacito,” James Arthur’s “Say You Won’t Let Go,” Christina Perri’s “A Thousand Years” and just this past year “I Had Some Help" Post Malone / Morgan Wallen, CharliXCX’s Brat album, and Kendrick Lamar and SZA’s 2025 hits like 30 for 30 and more.
The sports division represents over 70 athletes in the NFL including Travis Kelce (Kansas City Chiefs), Courtland Sutton (Denver Broncos), Kamren Curl (Los Angeles Rams), Paris Johnson (Arizona Cardinals) and more including a strong roster of NIL and annual draft athletes. Sidecar to the agency, Milk & House Sports houses a brand incubator to create ventures for its athletes. The agency also has a strong brand marketing side.
Quickly approaching 50 employees, Milk & Honey is full service with in house A&R administration, brand marketing, day to day management, DSP promotion, Digital, content and creative direction, international strategy, financial literacy training, music catalog sales, synch licensing, sports agents and legal services, tour marketing, venture development, writer producer creative A&R, and more. The company continues to invest in key services to complement its clients.
Since the pandemic, the company has sold over $300 million in publishing catalogs and are considered to be thought leaders in the sale of music rights. Just in the songwriter producer space, the company has a 15-person creative team, the largest in the world. Milk & Honey is a one stop shop for talent - Keller still categorizes the company as a mid-sized boutique and intends to keep that spirit as the company continues to expand in a strategic manner. Milk & Honey exports more songs to the international marketplace than any other songwriter producer management company and holds a record of over 25 songs in the Spotify billion streamers club and had 16 Grammy nominations for the 2025 65th Grammy Awards®. Milk & Honey also launched Web3 properties with the Picasso estate and worked with the estate to distribute physical Picasso art pieces to winners, one of a variety of special projects Milk & Honey have been a part of. The company is passionate and vocal about advocating for songwriter’s rights. Prior to founding Milk & Honey, Lucas Keller spent 5 years at Beverly Hills music/tv/film powerhouse, The Collective (a group who represented Linkin Park, Kanye West, Enrique Iglesias, Slash, Peter Gabriel and others) and staged come backs with legends like Jimmy Cliff and Scott Weiland of Stone Temple Pilots.
In the past few years, Keller has been featured on the Billboard 40 Under 40, the Billboard Power 100, Billboard’s inaugural Top LGBTQ Executives List, Billboard 2024 Ballers in Music and Sports List, Variety New Leaders List 2022, and 2025 Billboard Sports and Music Power list and awarded the top 20 percentile on Inc Magazine’s fastest-growing privately held companies two years in a row.
- ‘Great Things Could Come From This’: Lucas Keller on Why Milk & Honey Isn’t Slowing Down Amid Pandemic (Guest Column)
- 40 Under 40: Billboard Reveals Music’s Top Young Power Players of 2018
- Milk & Honey Founder Lucas Keller on Keeping Spotify in Check, Shunning Contracts and Why Indie Is Best
- Milk & Honey, My World MGMT, Third and Verse Open Nashville Offices: Exclusive
- Billboard Change Agents: Leaders Stepping Up In A Year of Turmoil
- Billboard LGBTQ+ Movers & Shakers in the Music Industry 2023
- Why K-Pop’s Success Transcends Hit Singles
- Billboard Reveals Music’s Top Young Power Players of 2018
- Milk & Honey Founder Lucas Keller On Keeping Spotify In Check
- Billboard’s Top Ballers
- How John Legend And Alec Benjamin Hitmakers Went From Music Producers To Entrepreneurs
- Meet The Team Behind The New Picasso NFT Series With John Legend
- Music Management Firm Milk & Honey Launches Sports Division, Signs 15 NFL Players
- Milk & Honey Expands Management Roster With Baseball Division Led By Industry Vet Kyle Thousand
- Milk & Honey acquires VMG Sports – Adding Travis Kelce and 14 more NFL players to its roster
- ‘Lots of people told me that managing songwriters and producers wasn’t a real business.’
- Milk & Honey makes a statement with its new UK office – next door to Universal Music Group and Google
- Nic Warner named partner at Milk & Honey Management
- Lucas Keller On Ambition, Songwriters, BMI
- Why I’m Doubling Our Investment In The UK Music Industry
- Milk & Honey signs trio of new clients, All Songwriter/Producers behind chart hits
- From Creating ‘Dynamite’ to Making ‘Memories,’ 5 Music-Producer Managers to Know
- Adam Lambert, Troye Sivan, Gay Hitmakers Talk Homophobia in the Industry
- Milk & Honey Roster Dominates Pop Radio With Seven Songs in the Top 40
- Milk & Honey Management Signs Producer-DJ Oliver Heldens
- Hitmaker J White Did It Signs With Milk & Honey Management
- How Teasing Tunes on TikTok Screws Songwriters
- The Album Is in Deep Trouble – and the Music Business Probably Can’t Save it
- She Spent Two Years Writing for an Acclaimed Album — and Made Only $4,000
- How Music Copyright Lawsuits Are Scaring Away New Hits
- Songwriters Are Tired of Having Their Money Taken, By Artists
- A ChatGPT for Music Is Here. Inside Suno, the Startup Changing Everything








