Seymour Stein (born 1942 in Brooklyn, New York) is an entrepreneur in the music industry who has been a part of the business since getting his first job as a clerk for Billboard Magazine in 1958.

Mark Kamins is a New York club DJ. He is best known for helping launch the career of Madonna by presenting a demo to Seymour Stein of Sire Records. He also produced her first single "Everybody" in 1982. Kamins had bugged Stein about becoming a producer, but Stein said he had to find his own artists first; when he heard the demo of "Everybody", Stein had Madonna brought to the hospital where he was admitted to sign her.

Richard Gottehrer is an American songwriter, record producer and record label executive. Gottehrer came to prominence as a song writer in the 1960s with his most notable songs being "My Boyfriend's Back" and "I Want Candy". As Feldman-Goldstein-Gottehrer (FGG Productions), he wrote various songs including "Sorrow" with Jerry Goldstein and Bob Feldman. The three were also known as The Strangeloves. By the 1970s he had progressed to record production, …

Charles Arthur Russell Jr. (1952 - April 4, 1992) was an American cellist, composer, singer, and disco artist. While he found the most success as a dance music artist, Russell's career bridged New York's downtown, rock, and dance music scenes; his collaborators ranged from Philip Glass to David Byrne to Nicky Siano. Relatively unknown during his life, a series of reissues and posthumous releases has raised his profile in recent years.

Danielle Gardner (born 23 September 1958) is better known as Danielle Dax a experimental musician and producer from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. She was born in Southend-on-Sea, Essex. She did brief but notable time in an avantgarde punk band called The Lemon Kittens, during which Dax was included on the League of Gentlemen's 1981 eponymous album, performing vocals (credited as "Hamsprachtmusic") on the song "Minor Man".

Victor Calderone, is a house music producers and a deejay in the international nightlife scene. Introduced into New York City's nightlife by his older brother, Victor signed his first industry contract with Sire Records in 1991. His remixing resumé is extensive, including hits for Beyoncé, Madonna, Whitney Houston, Janet Jackson, and Sarah Brightman, among many others.

Greg Shaw (January 1949 - October 19, 2004) was a Los Angeles-based fanzine publisher, music historian and record label owner. He grew up near San Francisco, California. It was as a young teenager that he started writing about rock and roll music. His first zines were Tolkien related, but among them was also a mimeographed sheet called "Mojo Navigator" (full title, "Mojo-Navigator Rock and Roll News"). It was started in 1966 by David Harris, …

Tanya Donelly (born July 14, 1966, in Newport, Rhode Island) is an American Grammy-nominated singer songwriter and guitarist based in New England who co-founded Throwing Muses with her stepsister Kristin Hersh. She then went on to work in The Breeders and Belly in the 1990s. In the late 1990s, she settled into a solo recording career, working largely with musicians connected to the Boston music scene.

Meryn Cadell is a Canadian singer, writer and performance artist. He currently teaches the writing of song lyrics and libretto in the Creative Writing Program at University of British Columbia. Cadell, a female-to-male transsexual, achieved prominence as a female. A graduate of the Ontario College of Art and Design, Cadell released an independent cassette titled "Mare-In Ka-Dell" in 1988 while active as a performance artist in Toronto, …

Lyle Preslar played guitar in and wrote songs for the seminal hardcore band Minor Threat. Before that he was the vocalist for The Extorts. After Minor Threat dissolved, he played guitar in the first incarnation of Samhain, after Glenn Danzig broke up The Misfits. He also teamed up with Minor Threat's Brian Baker again in The Meatmen and The 400 with Baker, Ray Hare from Deadline, and others. After retiring from performing, he ran Caroline Records, signing Ben Folds, …

Nathan Beauregard (* 1863, 1867 or 1869 in Ashland, Mississippi; died spring 1970 in Memphis, Tennessee) was an african american blues-singer and guitarist. Born blind, he soon became a musician, his repertoire consisting of songs of the pre-blues era and dance tunes like "Spoonful" and "Pretty Bunch of Daisies". When he was in his sixties, in the times of the "race recordings" of the 1920s, …

Rick Berlin (born Richard Gustave Kinscherf III, in Sioux City, Iowa in 1945) is a Boston-based singer-songwriter, formerly the frontman of Orchestra Luna, Luna, Berlin Airlift, Rick Berlin: The Movie, and The Shelley Winters Project. A Yale graduate, Berlin has been writing and performing a distinctly theatrical form of rock and roll since the early 1970s. He achieved much of his early success with Orchestra Luna, whose eponymous debut was released on Epic Records in 1974.

Richard Mazda is a record producer, writer and musician. Mazda was one of the co-founders of punk/mod band Tours. They signed to Virgin Records in 1979 after selling large quantities of their self produced and distributed Language School/Foreign Girls double A side 7" single. BBC Radio 1 DJs John Peel and Mike Read championed the band which led to a bidding war between Virgin, Polydor, Sire and EMI records.

Martha Carmen Josephine Hernandéz Rosario de Veléz is an American singer and actress. Veléz is the wife of famous trumpet player Keith Johnson. Veléz started singing at 5 years old and won an opera scholarship at 12 years old, being a mezzo soprano. She studied for 3 years then went to the High School of Performing Arts in New York City.

When Sylvia Rhone was named chairman of Atlantic's Elektra Entertainment Group in 1994, the veteran music executive achieved two industry milestones: She became the first woman and the first African-American to be tapped to run a major label. Ms. Rhone has been breaking ground for years. At Elektra, she guided the delicate merger of Elektra, East West and Sire Records and fashioned one of Warner Music Group's most competitive labels.

"don't give a damn 'bout my reputation".

I AM A BLAST TO BE AROUND!! I KNOW HOW TO HAVE A GREAT TIME REGARDLESS OF THE SITUATION. I HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SON WHO MAKES WAKING UP EVERYDAY WORTH IT! SOME OF YOU MAY HAVE SEEN MY MUSIC PAGE... I am a Chicago recording artist who has basicly been everywhere and done it all by now. I have taken the time I need to start a beautiful marriage and family with my two new sons Justin and Jeremy.

my name is camille. and im sitting on top of the world.

I am a 27 year old single girl and I live in NYC.

MADONNA BOOTS YOGA CLASS WHAT Madonna wants, Madonna gets. The pop queen paid a visit to the Reebok Sports Club on Columbus Avenue Saturday morning for a yoga class. According to a member of the class, when Madonna started talking to the instructor and he told her talking wasn't allowed, she replied, "I need to speak to you," and then said to the class, "I want you all to leave." The teacher left with all 25 students.

Richard Gottehrer Founder & Chairman Richard co-founded The Orchard in 1997. Richard is a legendary songwriter ("My Boyfriend's Back," "I Want Candy," "Sorrow," "Nightime"), multi-platinum producer (Blondie, The Go-Go's, The Raveonettes, Joan Armatrading) and music industry executive. His songs have been recorded by David Bowie, George Thorogood, Aaron Carter, Jerry Lee Lewis and many others.