Chip Hooper (March 15, 1962 – March 5, 2016) was a music industry agent, personally representing

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, and heading the

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. Hooper was born in Miami, FL, but grew up in

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, Il. Hooper attended college at Southwest Missouri State University. He broke into the music industry initially booking the club scene in Chicago. He became associated with the Minneapolis-based Good Music Agency before hiring into the Carmel, California-based Monterey Peninsula Artists as an agent in 1988. He ascended to the head of the Paradigm Talent Agency after Paradigm acquired Monterey in 2005. Hooper was instrumental in promoting the

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movement, through his agency with Phish and other seminal acts. Hooper was also an accomplished photographer, with books (including ''California's Pacific'' and ''New Zealand's South Pacific and Tasman Sea'') and gallery showings to his name.

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