Rasa Music, also now known as Rasa Living, is a record label based in New York City. It is the sister record label of AMI (Australian Music International) which was formed in 1991 with the intention of nurturing cultural musicians from Australia and marketing their music internationally. AMI is the home of Nomad (led by world beat composer and didgeridoo player Adam Plack), whose self-titled album Nomad has earned success in the United States and abroad. Today, Rasa Music's artists include Deepak Chopra, Prince Fatty, Indialucia, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Suphala, Benet, and many others. The label is run by Donna D'Cruz. Rasa is Sanskrit for "the sap or essence of things" and expanded into Rasa Living, a lifestyle company.
A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos. Sometimes, a record label is also a publishing company that manages such brands and trademarks, coordinates the production, manufacture, distribution, marketing, promotion, and enforcement of copyright for sound recordings and music videos, while also conducting talent scouting and development of new artists, and maintaining contracts with recording artists and their managers. The term "record label" derives from the circular label in the center of a vinyl record which prominently displays the manufacturer's name, along with other information. Within the mainstream music industry, recording artists have traditionally been reliant upon record labels to broaden their consumer base, market their albums, and be both promoted and heard on music streaming services, radio, and television. Record labels also provide publicists, who assist performers in gaining positive media coverage, and arrange for their merchandise to be available via stores and other media outlets.
The City of New York, usually called either New York City (NYC) or simply New York (NY), is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2018 population of 8,398,748 distributed over a land area of about 302.6 square miles (784 km2), New York is also the most densely populated major city in the United States. Located at the southern tip of the state of New York, the city is the center of the New York metropolitan area, the largest metropolitan area in the world by urban landmass and one of the world's most populous megacities, with an estimated 20,320,876 people in its 2017 Metropolitan Statistical Area and 23,876,155 residents in its Combined Statistical Area. A global power city, New York City has been described as the cultural, financial, and media capital of the world, and exerts a significant impact upon commerce, entertainment, research, technology, education, politics, tourism, art, fashion, and sports. The city's fast pace has inspired the term New York minute. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy.
List of notable events in music that took place in the year 1991.
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