About Glow Music Group
Glow Music Group is a music licensing and publishing company FOR performers, operated BY performers. Founded by singer, songwriter, producer Kari Kimmel in 2014, Glow Music is primarily a one-stop licensing company. Glow reps amazing songs crafted by incredibly innovative and unique artists, songwriters and producers.
Kari Kimmel
About Kari
Kari Kimmel, an independent artist, songwriter, and producer originally from South Florida, has achieved remarkable success with her music featured in thousands of films, television shows, trailers, video games, and commercials. Her journey began with two major record deals—first with Atlantic Records and later with Virgin Records. She went on to perform the title track “It’s Not Just Make Believe” for the film Ella Enchanted, and that was just the start. Subsequent film placements included Blockers, World War Z, Southpaw, and The Duff, establishing significant milestones in her career.
Kari’s music has also been prominently featured in numerous popular TV shows, such as You, New Girl, Grey’s Anatomy, and America’s Funniest Home Videos. Additionally, her work has been featured in promos and trailers for Cobra Kai, Fortitude, Dirty John, and The Walking Dead.
Beyond the realm of entertainment, Kari’s music has graced numerous advertisements for brands like Google, Nissan, Rothy’s, and Jell-O, in addition to writing and producing songs in video games like The Sims. She has composed an impressive 30 theme songs, including “Where You Belong” for The Fosters, “Warriors” for She-Ra and has written the Theme Songs as well as served as Series Songwriter on shows Spirit Riding Free, Rhyme Time Town, and Eureka.
Kari’s vocal talents have also left their mark in movies such as Pitch Perfect 1 & 2, Dreamgirls, Danny Collins, Descendants 1, 2 & 3, Teen Beach Movie 1 & 2, Zombies 1, 2 & 3, and Footloose.
Beyond her involvement in the world of synchronization, Kari’s songs have been recorded by prominent artists including The Backstreet Boys, Kesha, Joe Jonas, Demi Lovato, and Gloria Gaynor. Additionally, she has provided background vocals for icons such as Ringo Starr, Bruce Springsteen, Alicia Keys, John Legend, Stevie Wonder, John Mayer, Willie Nelson, Pharrell, and many others.
In 2014, Kari expanded her passion for music by establishing Glow Music Group. After achieving substantial success licensing her own music, Kari decided to represent other independent bands and facilitate the licensing of their songs for use in films, television, ads, trailers, and more. Recent placements for Glow Artists include renowned brands like Gatorade, Coke, Michael Kors, Ralph Lauren, Jack In The Box, Walmart, and CVS as well as notable films and TV series such as Poker Face, Seal Team, Snowfall, The Morning Show, Reacher, Shrinking, The Long Game, Shadow Force, Lisa Frankenstein, The Kill Room, and Spirited. And in 2024 Glow Music Group was honored to be awarded the AIMP’s Independent Publisher of the Year Award!
Kari has had an amazing journey and 2025 has been no different. Personally and creatively, Kari is currently working on two Disney Series as Theme Song Composer and Music Director, two National ads airing summer of 2025, a Disney film airing in 2026, and her company Glow Music Group has had songs air in a myriad of shows and films. Recent highlights include La Brea, Abbott Elementary, Love Is Blind, Resident Alien, Chucky, That 90’s Show, Criminal Minds, Cobra Kai, The Fabulous Four, NCIS, English Teacher, American Horror Stories, Hysteria, Rescue: Hi Surf, and Glow was thrilled to have a song included in the 2024 Oscar Winning Film American Fiction as well as the 2025 Oscar Nominated Film A Different Man.
Together with her husband Jonathan Haskell and her incredible team, Kari’s once itty bitty company has now blossomed into a roster of over 1,500 current bands spanning diverse genres, as well as vintage artists and catalogs dating back to the 1940s. Kari’s mantra has always remained the same: deliver exceptional music and enjoy the ride along the way.
About Jonathan
Jonathan D. Haskell is a 20-year veteran in the independent music publishing community. Having begun his career at ASCAP after graduating from the University of Southern California with a Bachelor of Science degree in Music Industry, Jonathan worked under VP Membership Randy Grimmett for two years before deciding to pursue the touring life in his indie rock band. Upon returning home from tour, Jonathan landed a job as Music Manager at legendary music publishing company Criterion Music Corp., founded by music industry icon Michael H. Goldsen. Jonathan would spend 7 years administrating the classic catalogs of Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra, Charlie “Bird” Parker, Lyle Lovett, Rosanne Cash and Jackson Browne, until Criterion was ultimately sold to Universal Music Group. After a forty-five minute commute got the best of Jonathan, he landed a remote role at production music powerhouse ALIBI, where he currently assumes the role of Vice President Publishing. Concurrently, Jonathan has had the immense privilege of working with his wife and music mogul Kari Kimmel, together building sync licensing company Glow Music Group into the nationally recognized brand that it is today.
Jonathan currently serves as Treasurer of the Los Angeles Chapter of the Association of Independent Music Publishers, and is a member of the California Copyright Conference and Songwriters of North America. In his spare time, he coaches both of his and Kari’s kids’ baseball teams, and continues to write, record and perform music in his bands Seven Saturdays, Glasz and POLLA, with acclaim from such notable outlets as Pitchfork, Stereogum, The Los Angeles Times and NME, which described his music as “serene and beautiful… the kind of music to stare out of aeroplane windows to.”
