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Blue Raincoat Music
Established by music industry professionals Jeremy Lascelles and Robin Millar, Blue Raincoat Music began as an artist management company based in West London in 2014. In 2016, the company diversified into music publishing, starting Blue Raincoat Songs. Later that year Blue Raincoat Music bought Chrysalis Records, an agreement which saw the label returned to the independent sector and reunited with original co-founder Chris Wright, in a new non-executive chairman role. In 2017, Blue Raincoat Music acquired the Berlin-based booking agency Spar-ks. Blue Raincoat Music now serves as the umbrella company under which Blue Raincoat Artists (management), Blue Raincoat Songs ( publishing), and Chrysalis Records operate. In August 2019, Blue Raincoat was acquired by Reservoir Media Management. Managed artists * Celebration * Christian Lee Hutson * Cigarettes After Sex * J.S. Ondara * Miss Grit * Nova Twins * Phoebe Bridgers Published artists * Abisha * AKA George * Cabbage (band) * F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Reservoir Media
Reservoir Media (also known as ''Reservoir Media Management'', ''Reservoir'', ''Reservoir Holdings, Inc.'', NASDAQ: RSVR) is an independent music company based in New York City with additional offices in Los Angeles, Nashville, Toronto, London, and Abu Dhabi. In 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018 and 2017 Reservoir was included in Billboard (magazine)’s Publisher's Quarterly Top 10 Market Share. History ''Reservoir'' was founded in 2007 as a Music Publishing Company by Iranian-Canadian Golnar Khosrowshahi, who is the current CEO. Khosrowshahi was named to ''Billboard''’s Power List in 2020 and 2022, and was honored as one of ''Billboard''’s Most Powerful Female Executives in 2017, 2018 and 2019 and a ''Billboard'' Indie Power Player in 2017 and 2018. Additionally, in 2022, Billboard named her the recipient of the Executive of the Year Award at their annual Women In Music Awards. That same year, Khosrowshahi was named to Variety's New York Women's Impact Report 2022. Khosrowshah ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phoebe Bridgers
Phoebe Lucille Bridgers (born August 17, 1994) is an American musician, singer, songwriter, and record producer. She has released two solo albums, ''Stranger in the Alps'' (2017) and ''Punisher'' (2020), both of which received critical acclaim. She is also a member of Boygenius, with whom she has released one self-titled EP, and Better Oblivion Community Center, with whom she has released one self-titled album. She has received four Grammy Award nominations, including Best New Artist. Early life Phoebe Lucille Bridgers was born in Pasadena, California, on August 17, 1994. Her mother, Jamie, held various jobs such as a receptionist and executive assistant, while her father was a film and television set builder. She has a younger brother named Jackson. Her parents divorced when she was 19 years old. She was raised in Pasadena, but also spent some of her childhood in Ukiah, California. As a child, she made extra money by busking at the Pasadena Farmers Market, and started pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruarri Joseph
Ruarri Joseph (born 3 January 1982) is a Scottish singer-songwriter. He was signed to Atlantic Records and released his debut album, ''Tales of Grime and Grit'', in mid-2007 on that label. Joseph is currently continuing his musical career on his own label, Pip Productions, after deciding to leave Atlantic in early 2008. Ruarri released his second album, ''Both Sides of The Coin'', in February 2009. Joseph began work on his third studio album, ''Shoulder to the Wheel'', later the same year, before releasing it independently in February 2010. The album had a wider physical and download release in November 2010, after Joseph secured a new management deal. His fourth studio album, ''Brother'', was released in July 2012. Since 2016 Ruarri has focused his attention on his new, band project, William the Conqueror. Biography Early life and career Joseph was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and after spending some of his childhood in New Zealand moved to England in his teens. After attempti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rickie Lee Jones
Rickie Lee Jones (born November 8, 1954) is an American singer, songwriter, musician, and author. Over the course of a career that spans five decades, she has recorded in various musical styles including Rock music, rock, Rhythm and blues, R&B, Pop music, pop, Soul music, soul, and jazz. A two-time Grammy Awards, Grammy Award winner (from seven nominations), Jones was listed at No. 30 on VH1's The Greatest (TV series), 100 Greatest Women in Rock & Roll in 1999. She released her Rickie Lee Jones (album), self-titled debut album in 1979, to critical and commercial success. It peaked at No. 3 on the U.S. Billboard 200, ''Billboard'' 200, and spawned the hit single "Chuck E.'s in Love", which peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Hot 100, ''Billboard'' Hot 100. The album went Music recording certification, Platinum later that year, and earned Jones four Grammy Award nominations in 22nd Annual Grammy Awards, 1980, including Grammy Award for Best New Artist, Best New Artist, which she won ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nerina Pallot
Nerina Natasha Georgina Pallot (born 26 April 1974) is an English singer, songwriter and producer, who has released six albums and over a dozen EPs. She was nominated for British Female Solo Artist at the 2007 BRIT Awards and nominated for an Ivor Novello Award for "Sophia (Nerina Pallot song), Sophia" in the category of 'Best Song (musically and lyrically)' in the same year. Besides her own material, Pallot has written songs for Kylie Minogue and Diana Vickers. She mostly tours around the UK and is married to record producer Andy Chatterley. Early life Pallot was born in London and brought up in Jersey by a French people, half-French father and a mother from Allahabad, Prayag, India, together with her sister. Pallot played piano as a child and wrote her first song aged 13. She has identified seeing singer and pianist Kate Bush perform her hit song "This Woman's Work" on television series ''Wogan'' as a catalyst for her to pursue a music career. She attended Jersey College for G ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nadia Reid
Nadia Reid (born 26 August 1991) is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from Port Chalmers, New Zealand. She has been acclaimed for her intimate musical soundscape and unique voice, and has been described by ''The Guardian'' as "an understated, wise guide through uncertain territory" and by ''Revue'' as "allegorical and often brutally honest". Her three albums, ''Listen to Formation, Look for the Signs'' (2015), ''Preservation'' (2017), and ''Out of My Province'' (2020), have received acclaim in New Zealand and internationally. Reid performs live with a regular band of musicians consisting of Sam Taylor (guitar), Richie Pickard (bass), and Joe McCallum (drums). Early life Born in Dunedin, New Zealand, Reid is the daughter of Karin Reid and Craig O’Reilly. She was educated at Logan Park High School and Queen's High School. Reid began playing the guitar at 14, and went on to win best female musician in the Smokefreerockquest. She was a member of the Queen's madrigal choir, who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mike Chapman
Michael Donald Chapman (born 13 April 1947) is an Australian-American record producer and songwriter who was a major force in the British pop music industry in the 1970s. He created a string of hit singles for artists including The Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie, Mud and Racey with business partner Nicky Chinn, creating a sound that became identified with the "Chinnichap" brand. He later produced breakthrough albums for Blondie and The Knack. Chapman received a Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) in the 2014 Australia Day Honours. Early career Chapman was born in Queensland, Australia, and was educated at the Anglican Church Grammar School. He emigrated to Britain where he became a member of the Downliners Sect and then in 1968 joined the group Tangerine Peel. They released an album in 1969 and had several near-hit singles between 1967 and 1970. In 1970 he met Nicky Chinn while working as a waiter at a London nightclub, Tramp. The pair struck up a song-writing partnership, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jack McManus (singer)
Jack Michael McManus (born 4 August 1984) is an English, BRIT School-educated singer-songwriter, from West Wickham, London, in England. In 2012, he married actress and singer Martine McCutcheon. Music career A singer who has been compared to Elton John and Billy Joel McManus' debut album ''Either Side Of Midnight'' was released on Polydor Records/UMRL on 5 May 2008, preceded by his first single "Bang on the Piano" on 28 April. His single "You Think I Don't Care" was released on 7 July. McManus co-wrote "From The Rooftops" with Groove Armada for their ''Soundboy Rock'' album. and has toured with musicians such as John Mayer, Scouting for Girls, Amy MacDonald, and Sam Sparro. Jack is co-writer of the song "Separate Cars" on Boyzone's album, ''Brother''. Personal life McManus married actress-singer Martine McCutcheon Martine Kimberley Sherrie McCutcheon (formerly Ponting, born 14 May 1976) is an English actress and singer. She began appearing in television commercials at an ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Francesca Lombardo
Francesca Lombardo (born August 27, 1978) is an electronic music producer and DJ from Castiglione delle Stiviere, Castiglione Delle Stiviere in the Lombardy region of northwest Italy. At age 13, Lombardo joined the Conservatorium of music in Italy where she studied and graduated in vocal techniques and piano. Early career Jackie Misfit In 1999, she moved to London and started her career in the underground techno scene using the alias Jackie Misfit. Lombardo started playing at underground parties around the capital. She soon became a resident at a UK Techno night called Chemical Warfare, which was held at what is now known as Great Suffolk Street Warehouse. In 2006, she became a resident DJ at Ultraplay events held at Cafe 1001 in London. To this day, Jackie Misfit is Ultraplay’s longest-standing resident. During this time, Lombardo was involved in a number of side projects including an all female electro/rock/drum n' bass band called Purity playing keyboards and mixing trac ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cabbage (band)
Cabbage was an English post punk rock band, formed in 2015 in Mossley, Tameside, England. They are composed of co-frontmen Lee Broadbent and Joe Martin, guitarist Eoghan Clifford, bassist Patrick Neville and drummer Asa Morley. History Prior to forming the band, Martin performed around Greater Manchester as a performance poet. Some poems went on to form the basis of Cabbage songs, including ''Dinnerlady''. Broadbent was previously the drummer in Where's Strutter? and Brahma-Loka whom Bill Ryder-Jones produced tracks for at Parr Street Studios in Liverpool. Guitarist Eoghan Clifford was previously the drummer in Mossley band The Fayre, a one time member of Twisted Wheel with past Bassist Stephen Evans and also worked with local singer-songwriter Danny Mahon. Drummer Asa Morley has previously played with Storytellers. In 2019, bassist Stephen Evans departed the band and was replaced by Patrick Neville, who also performs with Mossley band 'Yellow Brain'. The band released a collec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nova Twins
Nova Twins are an English rock duo formed in London, England, in 2014, consisting of vocalist/guitarist Amy Love and bassist Georgia South. Their most recent album, ''Supernova'', was released in June 2022. Career Love and South have been close friends since childhood and have played in bands that were often booked on the same bill. Both of them come from a mixed background; Love is of Iranian and Nigerian descent, and South is of Jamaican and Australian descent. (Georgia South's father, William South, is also a musician). They formed a band together in 2014 named BRAATS, releasing the song "Bad Bitches" under that name. Later that year they settled on the name Nova Twins, and released their first song "Bassline Bitch" under that name, in April 2015. That song attracted the attention of independent label Robotunes, which signed them and released their first self-titled EP in 2016. After a show at French festival Rencontres Trans Musicales in December 2016, Nova Twins spent most ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jeremy Lascelles
Robert Jeremy Hugh Lascelles (born 14 February 1955) is a British music industry executive and occasional musician. Life Lascelles is the third child of George Lascelles, 7th Earl of Harewood, and Marion Stein, who later married Jeremy Thorpe. He is a great-grandson of King George V. He was educated at Westminster School, Westminster in London. He is a former CEO of Chrysalis Music plc. He has been involved in the music industry since the early 1970s. This included playing percussion for the Global Village Trucking Company, for whom his older brother James Lascelles played keyboards. He then became a tour manager in the 1970s for bands including Curved Air before moving to Virgin in 1979. He rose to Head of A&R under Richard Branson at Virgin where he worked for 13 years with acts such as Phil Collins, Culture Club, the Human League, and Simple Minds and set up his own independent label (Offside Records - named after his favourite cricket shot) before being hired by Chris Wri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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