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Los Angeles\u2019 music industry, in recent years, has generally supported progressive causes. But as the primaries for the city\u2019s mayoral race and California\u2018s governorship wrapped up Tuesday, some music executives and performers have supported and donated large amounts to Spencer Pratt, the right-leaning activist and reality TV star running for mayor. <\/p>\n

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According to data from the Los Angeles City Ethics Commission, Pratt\u2019s supporters include two members of the record industry\u2019s most powerful family who donated the maximum amount allowed by law.<\/p>\n

Pratt is a registered Republican whose heated rhetoric about homeless \u201czombies\u201d and AI-created advertisements have rankled progressives and delighted conservatives. He has received support from President Trump, who told reporters that \u201cI\u2019d like to see him do well. He\u2019s a character. I don\u2019t know him, I assume he probably supports me\u2026 I heard he\u2019s a big MAGA person.\u201d<\/p>\n

In response, Pratt told TMZ that \u201cEverybody wants me to succeed because L.A. is the most important city in the country. The only support I need is from moms that wanna feel safe in Los Angeles. I\u2019m laser-focused on that.\u201d<\/p>\n

Universal Music Group is home to some of music\u2019s most outspoken progressives, including Olivia Rodrigo and Billie Eilish, whose brother and collaborator Finneas O\u2019Connell donated $250 to the progressive mayoral candidate Nithya Raman on May 6.<\/p>\n

Earlier this year, UMG\u2019s chairman and chief executive Lucian Grainge presented Rodrigo with the company\u2019s Universal Music Group x REVERB Amplifier Award, which advocates for \u201csocial and environmental nonprofit campaigns through the cultural power of music,\u201d according to a release.<\/p>\n

On May 9, Grainge (listed as a resident of Pacific Palisades, where Pratt lost his home in the 2025 fires) maxed out with an $1,800 donation to Pratt\u2019s campaign, as previously reported in The Times. A representative for UMG did not immediately return a request for comment on Grainge\u2019s donation.<\/p>\n

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He\u2019s not the only Pratt donor in the family.<\/p>\n

Grainge\u2019s son Elliot ascended through the record industry with his 10k Projects label, and now heads UMG\u2019s competitor Atlantic Records. Vocal progressives like Cardi B, the Mar\u00edas and Charli XCX are some of the label\u2019s most high-profile acts.<\/p>\n

On May 8, Elliot Grainge also gave $1,800 to Pratt\u2018s campaign. A representative for Atlantic did not immediately return a request for comment.<\/p>\n

Last month, the record producer and composing titan David Foster and his wife, singer Katharine McPhee, performed at a fundraiser for Pratt where they crooned a version of Tina Turner\u2019s hit \u201cThe Best\u201d to the mayoral hopeful. \u201cSpencer, you\u2019re simply the best. Better than all the rest. Better than Karen Bass and Nithya Raman,\u201d McPhee sang.<\/p>\n

At Warner Music, Gabz Landman, the senior vice president for A&R at Warner Chappell, its powerful music publishing wing, who has worked with Dua Lipa, Laufey and Amy Allen, gave $105.24 to Pratt on Feb. 4. Through a Warner Music representative, Landman said the donation was for merchandise given to a friend, and was not intended as support for Pratt\u2019s campaign.<\/p>\n

The superstar EDM producer and DJ Kaskade has left supportive messages on Pratt\u2019s social media, commenting on one of the candidate\u2019s posts that \u201cAt this point, who is buying in to Bass\u2019s fairytale narrative?! I am still shocked she hasn\u2019t resigned!\u201d The DJ and producer Diplo also left a supportive comment \u2014 a prayer-hands emoji and \u201cplease\u201d \u2014 on one of Pratt\u2019s social media posts. Records do not show any personal donations to Pratt\u2019s campaign from either artist. <\/p>\n

Public records do not show any donations to Pratt\u2019s campaign from live-industry executives atop firms like Live Nation, AEG or Goldenvoice. <\/p>\n

Read more LAUSD school board incumbents ahead in early returns in races devoid of pro-charter money<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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