i met this man threw a site called TALENT6.COM its a site designed to find talent obviously and everything usually is real so one day i saw this link from a man named Gerald Allan Michael and he said he was looking for young singers who wanted to make it big. me being 17 or 18 at the time and not really having anyone to back me up i knew my dreams would come true. i have a friend who really loves to dance and another who wanted to model. he told us all to come down to la so we could meet at this restaurant. we met and everything seemed so perfect. in fact it was too perfect just like that i got signed and had a record deal.. i would go to studio sessions with his partner Christian Davis and i would pay like 300$ for like 2 hours. i spent everything i had on this because i wanted to sing and he said he could make me a star.i went back and fourth to his studio in the la area for weeks probably the whole summer imagine the cost of studio time i paid.. well over 3, 000$ only to find that i hadn't even made one single song or a single beat. i had been played and he made me take all these pictures that i never received i paid over 500 for those and so did my friend this man made over 10, 000$ off of us and left us broke. there is no 417 artist management its a scam and it ruined my life and it made me never want to sing again in fear of being taken advantage of by the next person who promises me fame.