Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, the North American division of Japanese conglomerate Sony. It was founded on January 15, 1889, evolving from the American Graphophone Company, the successor to the Volta Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the recorded sound business, and the second major company to produce records. From 1961 to 1991, Columbia recordings were released outside North America under the name CBS Records to avoid confusion with EMI's Columbia Graphophone Company. Columbia is one of Sony Music's four flagship record labels, alongside former longtime rival RCA Records, as well as Arista Records and Epic Records.
PolyGram N.V. was an entertainment company and major music record label formerly based in the Netherlands. It was founded in 1962 as the Grammophon-Philips Group by Dutch corporation Philips and German corporation Siemens, to be a holding for their record companies, and was renamed "PolyGram" in 1972. The name was chosen to reflect the Siemens interest Polydor Records and the Philips interest Phonogram Records. The company traced its origins through Deutsche Grammophon back to the inventor of the flat disc gramophone, Emil Berliner.
Rodven Records was a Venezuelan record label that belonged to the Cisneros family owned ODC Group, then proprietors of one of the largest TV networks in the country, Venevision. They also owned a nationwide AM radio network and a record stores chain (DiscoCenter), thus serving as a channel for those artists who belonged to the roster of either of those companies.
Artists and repertoire is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters. It also acts as a liaison between artists and the record label or publishing company; every activity involving artists to the point of album release is generally considered under the purview, and responsibility, of A&R.
Guillermo Dávila is a Venezuelan actor and singer who has acted in many telenovelas.
EGREM is the national record label of Cuba. It is headquartered in Centro Habana, where its main record studios operate. It was founded in 1964 after the nationalization of the Cuban music industry, absorbing the assets of Panart. EGREM had a monopoly on music production activities from 1964 until the late 1980s when independent labels reemerged. EGREM's archive comprises "the most extensive catalog of Cuban music in the world".
Venezuelan art has a long history. Initially dominated by religious motifs, art in Venezuela began emphasizing historical and heroic representations in the late 19th century, a move led by Martín Tovar y Tovar. Modernism took over in the 20th century. Notable Venezuelan artists include Arturo Michelena, Cristóbal Rojas, Armando Reverón, Manuel Cabré, the kinetic artists Jesús-Rafael Soto and Carlos Cruz-Diez, the Meta-realism artist Pajaro and Yucef Merhi.
Empresas 1BC, is a privately owned Venezuelan corporation which operates diverse media enterprises such as Radio Caracas Televisión, Etheron, Radio Caracas Radio, 92.9 tu FM, Sonográfica, FonoVideo, Recordland, and Radionet, to name a few. This conglomerate is headed by Marcel Granier and headquartered in Caracas, Venezuela.
Morella Valarino Muñoz, was a celebrated Venezuelan mezzo-soprano. She performed as a child under the pseudonym Morella Kenton, and as an adult as Morella Muñoz. She achieved national and international fame as a member of Venezuela's Counterpoint Quintet.
Radio Caracas Radio is a Venezuelan radio station. It is owned by Empresas 1BC, a Venezuelan private media corporation.
Recordland is one of Venezuela's largest music and video store chains. It is owned by Empresas 1BC, which is the same owner of Radio Caracas Radio and Radio Caracas Television (RCTV). Recordland opened in 1982 and now operates 22 stores located throughout the country. On December 15, 2006, Tu Tienda RCTV, a gift shop which sells various products containing the logo of RCTV, ¿Quien Quiere Ser Millonario?, and RCTV's new telenovela, Te Tengo en Salsa, opened in the Recordland at the Centro Sambil in Caracas.
Gloria Sabrina Gómez Delgado is a Venezuelan singer, composer, actress, lawyer and TV presenter known by her professional name Kiara.
Venezuelan rock is rock music from Venezuela, the most common being based on Rock en Español.
Adrenalina Caribe is a Venezuelan music group. Primarily performing Latin and Tropical music, they formed in 1979 in Caracas.
Chino & Nacho were a Venezuelan pop duo, consisting of Jesús Alberto Miranda Pérez (Chino) and Miguel Ignacio Mendoza Donatti (Nacho). In 2010, the group won a Latin Grammy for Best Urban Album for Mi Niña Bonita.
Juan Lovera was a Venezuelan painter, best known for his portraits and historical scenes relating to his country's independence movement.
Elisa Pérez Rego, better known in music world simply as, Elisa Rego, is a singer, songwriter and radio host. She was born in São Paulo city, Brazil, on 21 May 1964. Since her youth she has been based in Caracas, Venezuela.
Peter Bottome Deery was a Venezuelan businessman. He was shareholder and the General Director of Venezuelan corporation Empresas 1BC.
Mariana Vega is a Venezuelan singer-songwriter, successful in her native country and Mexico, and the winner of the Latin Grammy for Best New Artist in 2014.
Caracas, te quiero que jode, or Caracas TQQJ, is a 2013 Venezuelan anthology romance film. It premiered on 30 October 2013.
