Where to begin? Evaluate your chances to fit into the American Music Industry. The main thing is that there is a lot of competition and a huge number of talented people, but how uniquely you are also unique as an artist, as a composer, as a performer.
To win the American market , you need to write songs yourself, music. Local companies want to receive their stake with copyright. In the event that you are just a performer and write anything, you give a lot of money to third-party people, and the companies you cooperate with this is not interested in this.
The biggest mistake The artist who has arrived in America is not looking to sign documents. A novice musician often signs contracts that will further deprive them of many opportunities earnings. The so-called Three Sixty Deal, which takes almost everything from the artist. The artist can earn millions of dollars, and receive a salary of five thousand to which he subscribed at the very beginning. And all rights will be leaving management companies, label.
The Internet gives artists the opportunity to break through without the help of producers. Anyone can create music and sell it independently through the Stregnation Services. It is necessary to work on a qualitative original musical material and build a fan base through social networks. For this you do not need to be in America - at least at the initial stage. It's all you can do from here, correctly orienting the material on the region you need.
The next stage is PR. Here you have to be in America, create information reasons, work with people from the industry that can give advice: where to go, with whom to communicate who can recommend and help make a duet with someone or perform a heating with an artist working in your genre.
You need to convince people that you are able to earn. That you are not just a cool shaggy guy who plays cool guitar, and the artist, followed by an audience, ready to buy your songs, T-shirts with your image. It is necessary to be an interesting product, no matter how terrible it sounds.
In America, the "human factor" is very valued. They understand that it plays not a car, but a living person who can smell. You do not need to be perfect - you need to be distinctive and crash into the consciousness of people.
It is necessary to sing without an accent - or at least without Russian accent. The American listener refers to this very trembling. So you need to teach English, find a good lawyer, manager, work with social networks, believe in yourself and your music and give a listener what he cannot find in ordinary life.