Lyor Cohen: Last News

Thania Garcia Lyor Cohen, the former president of Def Jam Recordings, has issued an open letter addressed to Kanye West. Cohen is currently YouTube’s global head of music and the CEO of 300 Entertainment.

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer Irv Gotti, the producer and music industry mogul who launched the careers of Ja Rule and Ashanti, has died at the age of 54, according to the Hollywood Reporter and sources close to the situation. A cause of death has not been confirmed, although sources tells Variety that he had suffered a series of strokes in recent months.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music It’s approaching the end of a tough month at Atlantic Music Group, as Julie Greenwald, who has been at the top of the company for more than 20 years, prepares to leave the company that she played an essential role in making one of the most successful and consistent labels in music industry history. Since she joined the company in 2004 from Def Jam Records and Rush Management with longtime boss Lyor Cohen, she and longtime co-chair Craig Kallman have played an invaluable role in the success and often the rise of artists including but hardly limited to Cardi B, Brandi Carlile, Kelly Clarkson, Coldplay, Jack Harlow, Lil Uzi Vert, Lizzo, Charli XCX, Kehlani, Bruno Mars, Janelle Monáe, Panic! at the Disco, Charlie Puth, Ed Sheeran, Tiësto, Rob Thomas, Twenty One Pilots, and Wiz Khalifa, as well as award-winning projects like “Barbie the Album” and the Original Broadway Cast Recordings of “Hamilton” and “Dear Evan Hansen.” Under Atlantic, the company’s subsidiary labels, including 300, ATCO, Big Beat, DTA, Elektra, Fueled By Ramen, Low Country Sound, Public Consumption, and Roadrunner, have thrived.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Atlantic Group chairman Julie Greenwald will exit the company entirely at the end of January, sources confirm to Variety. While the executive, who has been with Atlantic for 20 years, was expected to remain at the company as chairman after incoming CEO Elliot Grainge takes his post in October, she announced her decision to leave at a staff meeting on Tuesday. The news was first reported by Hits.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Note: The conversation that follows took place in September, two weeks before Hamas’ attack on Israel. On Wednesday, veteran music executive Lyor Cohen was honored at the City of Hope’s annual Spirit of Life gala, which raised $4.3 million to improve health equity in cancer care. He made the following remarks as part of his speech: “We came here tonight to eradicate cancer, but wouldn’t it be incredible if we could also eradicate hate. “What happened on October 7th will never be forgotten, the brutality and slaughter of innocent women, children and men only because they were Jewish. It was an act of terrorism and barbarism. That is not open for debate. Many are being held captive. I want them returned to their families. “I am sorry to hijack this special event to express my feelings as a human, just like I do when injustices happen to anyone targeted because of their race, religion or sexual identity. My heart also goes out to the Palestinian people and the region that has to endure unnecessary loss of life. I pray for peace. Will you join me?” Now in his fourth decade in the music industry, Lyor Cohen is one of the top executives of the era, working as an artist manager, label chief and, since 2016, head of music for YouTube.

Jaden Thompson The Spirit of Life Gala, hosted by the cancer research and treatment organization City of Hope, will honor hip-hop mogul and entrepreneur Lyor Cohen with a one-time-only version of DJ Cassidy‘s “Pass the Mic Live!” at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles on Oct. 18.

Jem Aswad Executive Editor, Music Bronx-born Chris Lighty founded Violator Management with Mona Scott-Young in 1996 — and within months they had one of the most powerful firms in the hip-hop business, with a roster that grew to include 50 Cent, LL Cool J, Busta Rhymes, Missy Elliott, A Tribe Called Quest and many more. During those years, Lighty negotiated 50 Cent’s deal with Vitaminwater — which ended up netting the rapper a reported $100 million — and over the course of his career worked at Rush Management and Def Jam, Jive and Loud Records, before his death in 2012.

according to Microsoft. “You can have Naughty by Nature performing live in the metaverse,” Bucano said, “and they won’t be the traditional avatars, it’d be the actual group.”Carnevale said other metaverse experiences the museum hopes to include are Grandmaster Flash scratching records at block parties in the 1970s and Notorious B.I.G.