Executive Turntable: Capitol Hires A&R Stars to Boost Urban Roster, Plus Peermusic Picks Dave Ayers

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Capitol Records appointed Ian Holder and Tariq Stewart arsenic elder vice presidents of A&R, wherever they volition jointly motion and make endowment for the label’s municipality roster. Both executives bring extended way records from rival Sony, and volition absorption connected expanding Capitol’s roster and shaping its originative direction. They are some based successful Los Angeles and study to Capitol Music Group president Lillia Parsa.

Holder joins Capitol pursuing 8 years astatine Sony Music Publishing, wherever helium served arsenic svp of creative. There, helium worked with a wide scope of hitmakers including Jack Harlow, Lil Durk, Polo G, Moneybagg Yo, Pusha T, A$AP Ferg and producers down hits for Drake, Megan Thee Stallion, Cardi B and Justin Bieber. Earlier successful his career, helium worked astatine BMI, signing artists specified arsenic Post Malone, Rae Sremmurd and Frank Ocean, and began arsenic an A&R intern astatine Columbia Records successful 2003. Holder said he’s honored to assistance proceed Capitol’s “rich bequest of artistry.”

Stewart comes to Capitol from Sony’s RCA Records, wherever helium worked alongside president Mark Pitts connected Chris Brown’s Grammy-winning 11:11 (Deluxe) medium and signed breakout artists including Afrobeat prima Libianca and dancehall enactment Skillibeng. He besides contributed to projects from A$AP Ferg, Flo Milli and Rich The Kid. A erstwhile antiaircraft lineman astatine Florida A&M, Stewart launched his A&R vocation astatine RCA successful 2020. Calling this a “hugely breathtaking time” for Capitol, helium expressed gratitude for the accidental to assistance physique the label’s adjacent chapter.

“Ian and Tariq person some had remarkably palmy careers identifying and processing vocation artists,” said Parsa. “As we proceed to physique the squad astatine Capitol, Ian and Tariq volition play important roles successful shaping the label’s civilization done the artists we sign. We’re thrilled to person some of them successful these important roles astatine Capitol.”

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Dave Ayers / Peermusic

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Peermusic appointed Dave Ayers arsenic enforcement vice president of A&R. With implicit 40 years of acquisition arsenic a manager, steadfast and statement executive, Ayers volition pb Peermusic’s eastbound seashore modern originative squad successful New York, reporting to Jamie Cerreta, president of U.S. and Canada. Ayers has played a cardinal relation successful discovering and processing groundbreaking artists crossed genres. From aboriginal enactment astatine Twin/Tone, Capitol and Chrysalis, to co-founding Big Deal Music Publishing, Ayers helped motorboat acts similar Bon Iver, The Black Keys, St. Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Ween, Soul Asylum and alt-country heroes similar Uncle Tupelo and The Jayhawks. After Big Deal’s 2020 sale, helium became evp astatine Hipgnosis Songs, continuing to champion emerging endowment specified arsenic Model/Actriz and Cameron Winter of Geese. “Dave’s passionateness for finding, processing and nurturing endowment is legendary,” said Mary Megan Peer, CEO. “His heavy experience, originative imaginativeness and committedness to i...