Norman Chesky | |
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Occupation | Executive music producer, president of Chesky Records and HDtracks |
Norman Chesky is a music entrepreneur and executive producer of two Grammy award winning albums. [1] [2] He is the co-founder and co-owner of Manhattan Production Music and Chesky Records. [3] [4] Chesky also co-founded HDtracks, a music download service. [5] [6] He was a Trustee of the Recording Academy and is a co-founding member of the Production Music Association (PMA). [7] [8]
Chesky co-founded and co-owns Manhattan Production Music. [4] [9] He served as a Trustee of the Recording Academy from 2002 to 2007. [8]
In 1986, Norman Chesky and his brother, David Chesky, co-founded Chesky Records. [5] [10] [11] Norman Chesky serves as the president of the record label. [12] Chesky Records was the first company to use 128x Oversampling and the first independent American record label to record using Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) technology. [10] Norman Chesky was the executive producer of Portraits of Cuba and Tropicana Nights , two Grammy award winning albums under Chesky Records. [1] [2] [10] [13] [14] In 2016, Chesky co-produced the critically acclaimed Jazz debut of Macy Gray, Stripped. [15]
Norman Chesky became a co-founding member of the Production Music Association in 1997. [7] The association was founded by a group of composers and publishers who opposed a proposition to cap performance royalties on music used in commercials, promos and announcements. [7]
Norman Chesky and David Chesky co-founded HDtracks, a high-resolution music download store in 2008. [6] [16] [17] According to Audioholics, HDtracks is the world's first high resolution digital music site to offer DRM-free music in multiple formats. [17] Norman Chesky serves HDtracks' president. [18]
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HDtracks is a high-resolution digital music store offering DRM-free music in multiple formats as well as cover art with Audio CD-quality and high-definition audio master recording quality download selections.
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