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Vincent "Vince" DeGiorgio (born in Brampton, Ontario) is a Canadian DJ, record producer, music publisher and songwriter. [1] [2]

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His recent work includes writing and co-producing hit albums for Caro Emerald, whose debut album Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor spent 30 weeks in the #1 spot on the Dutch Top 100. [3] DeGiorgio also wrote songs for Taiwanese singer Joanna Wang, who sings largely in English and is referred to as "Taiwan's Norah Jones"; [4] her first album sold more than 10,000 copies in the first ten days of release. [5]

Caro Emerald Dutch jazz singer

Caroline Esmeralda van der Leeuw, better known by her stage name Caro Emerald, is a Dutch pop and jazz singer. Active since 2007, she rose to prominence in 2009 with "Back It Up". Follow-up single "A Night Like This" topped charts in the Netherlands. Emerald is often praised for her outstanding live performances. She predominantly performs in English mixed in with her own made up language in the form of scat singing.

<i>Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor</i> 2010 studio album by Caro Emerald

Deleted Scenes from the Cutting Room Floor is the debut album by Dutch singer Caro Emerald. The album was conceived, written and produced as a studio project by David Schreurs, Vincent Degiorgio, Jan van Wieringen and Caroline van der Leeuw, and released in the Netherlands with Emerald as the starring artist on January 29, 2010 on their own label Grandmono.

Joanna Wang is a Taiwanese-American singer-songwriter, daughter of renowned music producer Wang Zhi-ping (王治平). Born in Taipei but raised in Los Angeles, California, Wang dropped out from Gabrielino High School when she was 16. Her debut album, Start from Here, was released in January 2008 as a double-disc set, one in English and the other in Chinese. The album reached No.1 in Taiwan and has been popular throughout Southeast Asia. In June 2008, it was released in Japan. Her second album, Joanna & Wang Ruo-lin, which includes her all-original endeavor, The Adult Storybook, was released in January 2009.

He is the founder of Power Records [6] (the oldest dance music label in English speaking Canada), Boulevard Records and Chateau Records. [7] The trio Tapps [8] (sometimes written T.A.P.P.S. - an acronym for the first letter of the original performers names: Tony DaCosta, Allan Coelho and Paul Silva - apping the extra "p" and "s" for effect. Vocalist Candy Berthiaume joined the group after the name had stuck) scored a major disco hit in 1983 with their Power Records produced single "My Forbidden Lover", co-written by DeGiorgio. [9]

Boulevard Records is a Canadian independent record label, founded by Vincent DeGiorgio, specializing in Hi-NRG music. It released several albums by Tapps.

Career

Vince DeGiorgio began his music career as an import record buyer [10] for a Sam the Record Man outlet in his hometown of Brampton, Ontario. He then moved on to retail record store Disco Sound of Canada [11] in Toronto, Ontario where his close ties to the dance music community began and his most notable DJ gig at after hours nightclub Le Tube.

Sam the Record Man

Sam the Record Man was a Canadian record store chain that, at one time, was Canada's largest music recording retailer. In 1982, its ads proclaimed that it had "140 locations, coast to coast".

DeGiorgio moved from his own label to a position as dance music and marketing consultant at BMG Music Canada [12] - the first step in his "corporate music" career. DeGiorgio was International A&R VP at RCA in New York from 1997 to 2002. [13] DeGiorgio was responsible for signing famous boy band NSYNC in the US. He is a member of the board of directors of the Songwriters Association of Canada (producer of the "Songworks" songwriting camps [14] ), serves on the advisory board of MROC [15] (Musicians' Rights Organization of Canada) and is the outgoing chair of the Juno Awards dance music committee.

BMG Music Canada was the Canadian division of BMG, located in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. It is one of Sony Music's four flagship labels, alongside RCA's former long-time rival Columbia Records, Arista Records, and Epic Records. The label has released multiple genres of music, including pop, classical, rock, hip hop, electronic, R&B, blues, jazz, and country. Its name is derived from the initials of its defunct parent company, the Radio Corporation of America (RCA). It was fully acquired by Bertelsmann in 1986, making it a part of Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG); however, RCA Records became a part of Sony BMG Music Entertainment, a merger between BMG and Sony Music, in 2004, and was acquired by the latter in 2008, after the dissolution of Sony BMG and the restructuring of Sony Music. It is the second oldest record label in American history, after sister label Columbia Records.

NSYNC American boy band

NSYNC was an American boy band formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995 and launched in Germany by BMG Ariola Munich. NSYNC consisted of Justin Timberlake, JC Chasez, Chris Kirkpatrick, Joey Fatone, and Lance Bass. After heavily publicized legal battles with their former manager Lou Pearlman and former record label Bertelsmann Music Group, the group's second album, No Strings Attached (2000), sold over one million copies in one day and 2.42 million copies in one week, which was a record for over fifteen years. Among the group's singles, "I Want You Back", "Bye Bye Bye", "This I Promise You", "Girlfriend", "Pop" and "It's Gonna Be Me" reached the top 10 in several international charts, with the last being a US Billboard Hot 100 number one. In addition to a host of Grammy Award nominations, NSYNC has performed at the World Series, the Super Bowl and the Olympic Games, and sang or recorded with Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Britney Spears, Phil Collins, Celine Dion, Aerosmith, Nelly, Left Eye, Mary J. Blige, country music supergroup Alabama, and Gloria Estefan.

DeGiorgio currently owns and manages Chapter 2 Productions which also houses Cymba Music Publishing [16] (an acronym for "Crushing Your Music Business Apathy"), C2 it Music Publishing, The Billy Ray Louis Music Publishing Company, DVP (a joint venture pop music label) and dance imprints Power Records and Boulevard Records Inc. Chapter 2 Productions Inc. has furnished music for over 150 international and domestic television programmes including "Smart Cookies","Pure Design" and the award-winning "Make Some Noise", "America's Next Top Model", "Da Kink In My Hair", "Degrassi" and "Keeping Up With The Kardashians". It has also had songs in its catalogue appear in major motion pictures such as "Something Borrowed" and in trailers for "The Fantastic Mr. Fox". The newest projects completed include placements in the ABC TV show "Army Wives", made for TV films "The Trainer", an advertisement for Reebok's "Easy Tone" shoes in Japan and Russia and the CBC TV show "Mr. D". [17] Besides DeGiorgio, Chapter 2's writing team includes Aileen de la Cruz, Ava Kay, John Acosta and Davor Vulama.

In September 2016, DeGiorgio was elected President [18] of The Canadian Music Publishers Association [19] (CMPA). He is also co-chair of Canada Music Week (CMW), 2017 committee. [20]

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