Gil Kaufman (he/him) is a longtime Billboard contributor. After helping to build the first commercial internet music news site (Addicted to Noise) in the mid-1990s, he spent 16 years as a senior writer/editor/producer and live event photographer at MTV News before joining Billboard in 2016 as a full-time freelance editor/writer. Since then he has written nearly 10,000 headlines spanning breaking news, concert reports, awards shows, TV/movies, profiles, features and interviews, with a focus on...
