Roy Orbison Estate Signs With Sandbox Succession for Management

Sandbox Succession has signed the Roy Orbison property for exclusive management. The bequest part of Sandbox Entertainment volition negociate the property with Orbison’s sons — Wesley, Alex and Roy Jr. — who had been handling their father’s affairs.

“Roy Orbison is an American icon whose euphony and reflections of emotion and beingness are woven into the cloth of popular culture,” said Josh Matas, president of Sandbox Succession, successful a statement. “It is an grant to further that bequest for generations to come.”

Sandbox Succession volition grip each facets of music, publishing, NIL (name, representation and likeness) licensing, hospitality and movie and TV projects for the legend, who was revered for his crystalline, haunting dependable and dramatic, susceptible tunes specified arsenic “Only the Lonely,”  “Crying” and “In Dreams,” arsenic good arsenic the flirty “Oh, Pretty Woman.” Renowned for his pitchy achromatic hairsbreadth and acheronian sunglasses, Orbison was besides a subordinate of Traveling Wilburys, on with Bob Dylan, Jeff Lynne and Tom Petty.

Orbison, who died successful 1988 astatine property 52, has been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Songwriters Hall of Fame and the Musicians Hall of Fame. In summation to winning 5 Grammys, helium was recognized by the Recording Academy with a Lifetime Achievement Award successful 1998.  

“We the sons of Roy Orbison are precise excited to enactment with Sandbox connected continuing the bequest of our father,” said West, Alex and Roy Jr. successful a statement. “Sandbox, nether the enactment of Jason Owen and Josh Matas, has developed into the world’s premiere absorption bureau and a institution that we trust. We consciousness Roy Orbison’s timeless assemblage of enactment and Sandbox’s modern capabilities are a cleanable match.  We can’t hold to spot ‘The Big O’ turn adjacent bigger!”

Sandbox Succession besides represents the estates of Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Loretta Lynn and Patsy Cline, arsenic good arsenic racing icon Richard Petty.