You are a member of a talent company that has discovered your potential and has given you a chance to grow and develop into something great. From a rough stone they transform you into a shining gem. The company trains and develops various artists like you, whom they have seen potential in, and manages the career they have built for them. They have crafted strategic plans to guide and develop your career, and helped identify and provide opportunities that aligns with your strengths, goals and aspirations. 

You have gone through years of rigorous and intensive training in various skills related to your specialization. You have also participated in competitions, shows, exhibits, presentations, and performances to showcase your talents and gain exposure. You have sacrificed a lot for your dream, such as your privacy, your social life, and your personal identity. You have also faced many challenges and hardships, such as strict rules, harsh criticism, and fierce rivalry. However, you have also achieved fame and fortune as a Talent of the Arts. You have a loyal fan base that supports you and admires you. You have a successful career that brings you joy and satisfaction. You have a creative outlet that allows you to express yourself and connect with others. You have also discovered many opportunities and adventures as a Talent of the Arts. You have travelled to different places and met different people. You have learned new things and experienced different cultures. You have also made friends, connection and allies with other Professional Artists as well as influential people.

Talent companies are usually powerful organizations that scouts, trains, and promotes their artists. They are backed up by powerful and influential patrons and sponsors, in return they get first and exclusive access to the products, items, arts, creations, designs, performances or even the artists themselves. Some companies remain local to the city or area they've established themselves in, but bigger companies would have various locations, especially on bigger cities and acts as safe haven and lodging for their artists. Smaller and less known companies exist as well.

As a member of a talent company, you are bound to them by contract. Each contract is different depending on the company, there are even rumors' of talent companies using blood contracts and other much more nefarious means for their artists. Once a set contract expires the company will decide to offer a renewal or let you go. You have the choice to renew and gain access to the guild's privileges once again or decide to leave. In some cases, they don't even provide an artist a choice and ties them into a contract until they decided to let them go. Talent companies gets a percentage of the earnings of their artists. It can be as low as 10% or as high as 90%. There are even talent companies who traps their artists into a slave contract and get 100% of the earnings. 

Talents of the Arts are not limited to Entertainers and Performers, although they would be the usual talents you would find in these companies. Illustrators, Painters, Sculptors, Even Blacksmiths and Alchemists and so on are also talents. As long as they consider the creation as an art, is a trainable skill, and there is a product to be be promoted, sold and earned from the companies would take them under.

Note: This background is pretty flexible, you can shape it for your character anyway you want or however your DM allows. It just needs to have the basic foundation which is your character being scouted, trained and bound in contract with a company, have a specific specialization in the arts such as music, theatre, painter etc. and have a career with it, and gain a level of fame or infamy. While the background fits more for the Bard class, your character Race and Class doesn't need to be affected. You can be a halfling cleric who also has a painting career on the side, or an elven fighter who is a best selling author. Whichever makes sense for you, your DM and your character. 

Skill Proficiencies: Choose two skills from any of the following: Acrobatics, Arcana, Athletics, Deception, Insight, Nature, Perception, Performance, Persuasion

Tool Proficiencies: Choose one tool from either Artisan’s Tools or Musical Instrument.

Languages: Choose one language you learned from company training, and Choose one language you learned from travelling. Choose only from the Standard Languages.

Equipment: A Musical Instrument or an Artisan's Tool, set of common clothes and a cloak with your company emblem embroidered on the side, A company token with the company's emblem engraved on it, vial of ink and an ink pen, a small notebook, a fan letter, A book related to your specialization, and a pouch containing 15 gp.

Suggested Characteristics

Professional Artists has undergone training with their company before debuting to the public. Some trained for a few months to a year, and others trained for multiple years. They are a part of a system that requires them to constantly improve themselves, they are shaped through their experience while undergoing this rigorous training. Through this system they also formed bonds or rivalries with fellow trainees. Their studies, specialization, art and reaction to fame affect their attitude, mannerisms, personality and ideals.