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Aurel Awards

The Aurel Awards were an accolade by the Slovak International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (SNS IFPI) to recognize outstanding achievements in the music industry.

Backstage Production

Backstage Production (or simply Backstage) is a pan-Arab artist management company based in the Middle East and controlled by CEO Khodr Alama.

Bayless Rose

Although the music industry was highly segregated at the time, it is uncertain whether he was White or African American.

Cajun Dance Party

West Heath Yard was also a music industry spoof which aired for a short while on Channel 4 in 1999, The album consisted of nine tracks, with singles from the album including "Colourful Life", "The Race", and "Amylase".

Khodr Alama

He began a career in the music industry as a guitarist and manager for his brother Ragheb Alama, who had won the Platinum Medal on the hit Lebanese TV show Studio El Fan in 1980.

Music City Stars

Located in Nashville, Tennessee, the team was named for the city's association with music industry celebrities; it also referred the Music City Star, a regional rail service.

Naked Eyes

According to Denis McNamara who was the program director at New Music station WLIR during the bands heyday this has led to a "curiosity" about the group over the years.

Open Source Track

The Open Source Track (OST) is a licensing and distribution model for music initiative created by entrepreneur Israel Anderson and musician Marc Scibilia to encourage creative freedom in the music industry.

Out of left field

Popular music historian Arnold Shaw wrote in 1949 for the Music Library Association that the term "out of left field" was first used in the idiomatic sense of "from out of nowhere" by the music industry to refer to a song that unexpectedly performed well in the market.

Spragga Benz

The Benz in his name comes from the sound system for which he used to work for, L.A. Benz, and it is through this that he found his way into the music industry at a Dubplate recording session with Buju Banton.

Steve Alcorn

The company initially concentrated on providing engineering services to the music industry, designing products for Akai, 360 Systems and Forat Electronics.

The Love You Make

The Love You Make (subtitled "An Insider's story of the Beatles") is a 1983 book by Peter Brown and Steven Gaines.


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Abrams, Wisconsin

Pee Wee King, pioneer in the country and western music industry; wrote "Tennessee Waltz" and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1974

Adrian Lulgjuraj

Lulgjuraj entered the Albanian music industry in early 2010, participating in various TV shows and music festivals such as Top Fest.

AIR Charts

They are officially distributed alongside the ARIA Charts through The Music Network, a weekly subscription based Australian music industry trade magazine.

Anise K

Some of the biggest names in the music industry have been involved in the development of the single including Phil Tan as mixing engineer and producer KC Porter.

Art world

Simon Frith describes three art worlds present in the music industry: the art music world, folk music world, and commercial music world.

Ben Glatzer

The West Australian Music Industry Awards (WAMIs) are annual awards presented to the local contemporary music industry, put on by the Western Australian Music Industry Association Inc.

Chaim Shemesh

In 2002 Shemesh joined the leading record company ‘NMC’ as a content VP, where he managed the company’s marketing and public relations and developed new business modules to the music industry (on-line music downloading web sites, artist management systems, etc.).

Chris Gelbmann

In the last years he worked behind the scenes of the music industry, where he realised numerous major projects like André Heller's 3 CD compendium "Ruf und Echo", the two triple platinum CDs of Christina Stürmer, the major label debut of Hans Platzgumer; he worked with Brian Eno, Stefan Sagmeister, Xavier Naidoo and many more.

Collinz Room

The band members Ric Amieva, vocals; Lew Nottke, guitar; Kris Campbell, bass; and Luis Campos “Chocs”, drummer, known for their catchy tunes and eclectic style, continue to impress the music industry and fans alike as the next up-and-coming band bringing together the elements of unforgettable music and an explosive live show.

Commodores 13

It is their first album after Lionel Richie left the group, and their last album with guitarist Thomas McClary before his departure from the band (McClary recorded a solo album for Motown Records in 1984, and then retired from the music industry).

D-Mark

The first release of the record label and the first appearance of D-Mark in the music industry as well, Travelling EP, became unexpectedly a success: 10 weeks in a row at the top positions of the Technics/IDP/DMC Dutch Dance Charts and full reviews on the Spanish magazines Deejay and DJ1, that finally ended with the DJ Oner award #1 Spanish trance release and the appearance of Project Norway in the album of Dave Pearce Delirium on the label Ministry of Sound.

Dennis Charter

Charter began his music industry career in 1967 working at live band club venues in Melbourne such as Sebastian's and Berties and writing for Go-Set Go-Set magazine before establishing live music venues and promoting concerts of his own around Melbourne and throughout country regions of Victoria, New South Wales, and South Australia.

DukeDaGod

Moore got involved with the music industry when he helped form the hip-hop group Children of the Corn, composed of his childhood friends Cam'ron, Mase, Big L, and Bloodshed.

Farzana Naz

Farzana is engaged currently and has decided to leave the Music Industry for some time now for personal reasons, she revealed on the show Music Night on 1TV

Gregory Del Piero

He released his first artist album " I Love You More", that got acclaimed in the Dance music industry and abroad by the likes of Stuart Matthewman (Sade) and CeCe Rogers (Jestofunk).

Harry Sutcliffe

The late 1990s saw Harry move into the business side of the music industry, initially as an A&R manager for Arista Records working closely with Blondie, Natalie Imbruglia, Kent, Beth Orton, Avril Lavigne, Jennifer Brown and Death in Vegas.

Journey / Is It OK?

The news excited many fans because it marked the return of member Amber Liu to the Korean music industry.

Ken Kalmusky

Kalmusky's contributions to the music industry have been noted in Barney Hoskyns' novel, Across The Great Divide, Nicholas Jennings' novel, Before The Gold Rush, Levon Helm's novel This Wheel's on Fire, on radio, and television for the last 40 years.

Khem Raj Gurung

Khem Raj Gurung is a famous musician and singer of Nepali music industry.

Kimo Kaulani

Kimo's accomplishments have been recognized by several of the music industry’s leading software and equipment manufacturing companies such as Steinberg/Yamaha, MXL Microphones, Sony Pictures Digital and M-Audio.

Leila Steinberg

As a veteran music industry executive she served as a marketer with Atlantic Records, Sony, Def Jam, Tommy Boy, Interscope, and Relativity.

May Hariri

Many of Lebanon’s leading opinions in the music industry including Melhem Barakat and Simon Asmar expressed their support and trust in Hariri‘s work.

Minos EMI

In 1991, EMIAL purchased a controlling share of Minos Matsas & Son, a record company founded by pioneering Greek music industry executive and prominent rebetiko musician Minos Matsas, in 1927, and which also edited music under the label Odeon and which produced, since then, records under the Minos label.

Mouth of the South

Jerry Clower (1926–1998), comedian in the country music industry

Music pool

The concept of the record pool was started by David Mancuso, Steve D'Aquisto and Vince Aletti in 1975 in New York City as a grassroots effort to design an efficient pipeline for swapping information between the music industry and working DJs.

Nicky Jam

However the album did gain him recognition in the music industry, and got the attention of some music producers like DJ Joe, DJ Playero, DJ Chiklin, and some others.

O-Town

In the e-mail, O-Town themselves stated that they had disbanded due to the changing climate of the music industry, along with certain financial problems, hinting that Lou Pearlman and his company, Trans Continental Records, may have been involved with these issues.

Panos Kallitsis

He has worked exclusively with almost all prominent Greek designers, major magazines such as Celebrity, Woman, Madame Figaro, Elle, Esquire, Nitro, Status and many of the most famous names in the Greek fashion, TV and music industry such as singers Haris Alexiou, Giannis Kotsiras and Despina Vandi, TV hosts Eleonora Meleti, Eleni Menegaki, Elena Katritsi and Sakis Rouvas.

Paul Ellis

Ellis was made a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit in the 2011 Queen's Birthday Honours, for services to the music industry.

Pixie Jenkins

Born 'Paul Blake Jenkins' in Launceston, Tasmania in 1957, now referred to by his stage name 'Pixie', in an article in The Australian, Pixie was referenced alongside Jimmy Little, Chad Morgan and Slim Dusty as "...an icon of Australia's country music industry".

Qtrax

The company announced the launch of its service in January 2008, at the music industry's global conference MIDEM in Cannes.

RandM Records

RandM Entertainment was started in 1998, by music industry executives Roy Eldridge and Mike Andrews, who together have a combined 50 year experience in the industry.

Rik Schaffer

He formed Womb Music in 1996 after being in the music industry as a member of several national acts such as Tomorrow's Child and Engines of Aggression.

Roland Ruby

The film, which spoofs the music industry, was packaged with the second studio album, First Kisses and Final Requests.

Sally Carns

When she's not working for Amy Grant, Merle Haggard, and others in the music industry, you may find Carns taking photos of her kids and blogging about her creative ventures at www.mattandsally.com.

Saraya

Tony Bruno has been the most prolific of all the band members, playing, writing and recording with, as well as producing, many prominent artists in the music industry, from Joan Jett to Enrique Iglesias to Rihanna.

Scott McFarnon

McFarnon’s discovery by the music industry is credited to internationally renowned singer/songwriter Amanda Ghost, who encourage him to write for artists including Kelly Rowland, Mark Ronson, Daniel Merriweather, Jack Splash and Kanye West.

Someone Who's Cool

The song was also used as the theme song to the short-lived CBS music industry comedy Love Monkey.

South C

Some of the well-known artists in the Kenyan music industry that reside in South C are; Nameless, E-Sir, Big Pin, Habib and Manga, Longombas and K-rupt.

Terry Manning

Manning began in the music industry in the early sixties in El Paso, Texas, where he played guitar with several local bands, and on occasion accompanied his friend Bobby Fuller.

The Chips

Only Sammy Strain went on to success in the music industry, as a member of Little Anthony & The Imperials from about 1961 to 1972 when he left to join The O'Jays.

The Crests

On November 12, 2013, JT Carter was honored by the Pennsylvania State House, Speaker of the House Sam Smith, and PA State Representative Rosemary M Brown, for his lifetime in the music industry and for being the first African American to form an interracial vocal group in America.

The Golden Virgins

The band had shown great significance in Sunderland local music industry as they had played at Glastonbury, T in the Park, Leeds and Reading, dubbing them as one of Sunderland best known bands.

The Great Escape Festival

The 2011 and 2012 conferences were programmed by the team from music industry publication CMU.

The Sound of Hush

The duo decided to go to a showcase in London in 2002 playing for the English music industry, where Tina Dico set them up with her English manager Jonathan Morley.

Univision Music Group

In the second quarter of 2004, Univision Music Group recording labels held the #1 position in the U.S. Latin music industry with an estimated 45% market 10.

V-pop

In the 1990s, more and more young artists began to appear in the overseas Vietnamese music industry, Trish Thùy Trang, Nguyễn Hưng, Bằng Kiều, Nguyễn Thắng, Andy Quách, Dương Triệu Vũ, Don Hồ, ...

We Dreamed America

In addition to the British bands, the film features a variety of musicians and music industry commentators including Tom McRae, Old Crow Medicine Show, Bob Harris, Little Feat, Sid Griffin and Guy Clark.

Yamaha Entertainment Group

A 25-year veteran in the music industry, Chris Gero has spent the last 15 years spearheading Yamaha’s artist branding.