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sued by a former music executive who says he sexually assaulted her and derailed her career.Drew Dixon filed the lawsuit Wednesday in a New York federal court. Dixon, who worked for Reid when he was chief executive of Arista Records, alleges that Reid sexually assaulted her twice in 2001 and later cut her budget and sidelined artists when she rebuffed his continuing advances.Dixon left Arista in 2002 and contends that her “meteoric trajectory” in the music business was cut short by Reid’s harassment.“This litigation is not only about the horrific physical assaults that Ms.

Shawn Mendes is getting a breath of fresh air with a friend from the music industry.

Rebecca Rubin Film and Media ReporterSony is bringing the spirit of Whitney Houston to theaters.The studio has released the first trailer for “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” a biographical drama about the life and times of the iconic singer.“The End of the F***ing World” star Naomi Ackie has the daunting task of portraying the legendary vocal powerhouse in the film, along with a cast that includes Ashton Sanders as Bobby Brown and Stanley Tucci as Clive Davis. Clarke Peters will be playing John Houston, Whitney’s father, and Tamara Tunie will be portraying Cissy Houston, Whitney’s mother.Sony describes “I Wanna Dance With Somebody” as a “no-holds-barred portrait of the complex and multifaceted woman behind The Voice.” The film recounts the story of a New Jersey choir girl who became one of the best-selling and most awarded recording artists of all time.

EXCLUSIVE: Production is underway on a documentary about Whitney Houston, which will explore the iconic singer before she became an international superstar.

an hour and a half each day. After six months of the daily ritual, he got his big break when he posted “Stuck in the Middle” on TikTok last August.The video, which showed him singing along to his soon-to-be hit in his car with the caption “if this gets 1000 likes I’ll put this song out,” went viral, helping Verdes accumulate some 1.7 million followers on the platform.

Rani Hancock is headed back to Sony Music as Columbia Records’ executive vice president and head of A&R. A Columbia rep tells Variety that Hancock will join the company on August 1, based in New York and reporting to chairman-CEO Ron Perry.Under her tenure, Sire enjoyed a hit with Bryce Vine’s “Drew Barrymore,” but the label has not been extremely active and just six artists are listed on its official roster.

British recording artist and actor ARLO has signed with Sony Music Entertainment's Arista Records. Based in East London, ARLO will release new music this year with Arista Records.

Leo Barraclough International Features EditorBritish singer, songwriter and actor ARLO has signed with Arista Records, the U.S. label owned by Sony Music Entertainment.London-based ARLO will release new music this year with Arista.

EXCLUSIVE: Mitchell Leib, longtime President of Music and Soundtracks for Disney’s Live Action Motion Picture Production division has announced his retirement for when his contract expires at the end of February 2021.

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Dave McNary Film ReporterSony has bought the upcoming Whitney Houston biopic, titled “I Wanna Dance With Somebody.” The studio plans to release the movie in theaters around Thanksgiving in 2022.Stella Meghie (“The Photograph”) directed the film from a script by Anthony McCarten (“The Two Popes,” “Bohemian Rhapsody,” “The Darkest Hour”).Music producer Clive Davis is producing “I Wanna Dance With Somebody,” which is being made in collaboration with the Whitney Houston Estate. The movie centers on the iconic musician, who died in 2012 at the age of 48.Houston broke out with her self-titled 1985 debut album, which was released by Davis and Arista Records.

It all started with a DM. Julia Michaels and JP Saxe, the latter then newly signed to Arista Records, had yet to meet each other last year, when the former shared a clip on her Instagram of Saxe's 2018 song "25 in Barcelona." Within minutes, the two started DMing to schedule a writing session. "Coincidenta

Indian singer-songwriter Armaan Malik has signed with Arista Records, Billboard can exclusively announce today (March 12).Malik’s first release under Arista will also mark his first official English-language single: “Control,” out March 20.The 24-year-old artist comes from a family of musicians (his father is Indian composer Daboo Malik), and got his start lending his vocals to songs in dozens of popular Bollywood films, such as the January Telugu-language action film Ala Vaikunthapurramuloo, for which his rendition of "Buttabomma" has topped 5 million Spotify plays.

Drew Dixon, 50, is one of the central voices who appears in HBO Max’s new powerful documentary, On The Record. The former Def Jam executive is one of several women to have publicly accused hip-hop music pioneer, Russell Simmons, 62, of sexual assault. Dixon first told her account of the alleged 1995 incident to The New York Times in December 2017. “I was broken,” she told the newspaper, alleging that Simmons raped her in his Manhattan apartment. Dixon has also accused legendary music exec L.A. Reid of sexually harassing her when they both worked at Arista Records.