| Company name | Simco Limited |
|---|---|
| Company logo | |
| Company type | Private |
| Foundation | May 2002 |
| Founder | Simon Cowell |
| Location city | London |
| Location country | United Kingdom |
| Genre | Various |
| Key people | Simon Cowell (Managing Director) |
| Predecessor | S Records |
| Industry | Music & entertainment |
| Products | Music & entertainment |
| Parent | Sony Music Entertainment |
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Syco Music operates under the Sony Music banner, continuing Simon Cowell’s near 20-year association with BMG (later, Sony BMG, now Sony Music Entertainment). The company rarely scouts for new artists, as they are usually developed through the TV talent formats. Generally, the company has a strong focus on promoting its artists through television. The record label is run by Managing Director Simon Cowell. Tim Byrne is Creative Director, David Gray is Head of A&R; and Sonny Takhar is head of marketing. It works with a number of US record labels to release albums in the states.
Highlights for the label include the #1 albums from Il Divo, Shayne Ward, Alexandra Burke, Leona Lewis and Susan Boyle. In the first week of December 2007, Syco occupied the top 3 album positions as well as the #1 single and #1 DVD.
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| Name | Tricky |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Adrian Nicholas Matthews ThawsMassive Attack |
Tricky (born Adrian Nicholas Matthews Thaws, 27 January 1968) is an English
Tricky failed to complete a number of lyrics for the Massive Attack album Protection and gave the band some of the lyrics he had written for Maxinquaye instead. Different versions of the same songs appear on both albums - called "Overcome" and "Hell is 'Round the Corner" on Maxinquaye and "Karmacoma" and "Eurochild" on Protection. When Massive Attack were asked, in a radio interview on CFNY (Toronto), about why the lyrics were the same, they jokingly said that it was because he was lazy.
Tricky found it difficult to cope with the huge success of Maxinquaye and he subsequently eschewed the laidback soul sound of the first album to create an increasingly edgy and aggressive punk tinged music that echoed his personality as he became more erratic and unreliable.
In 1996, Neneh Cherry and Björk appeared as guests on his second album Nearly God. The opening number was a cover of the Siouxsie and the Banshees pre-trip-hop song "Tattoo" that had previously inspired Tricky when he forged his style.
In 2001 Tricky appeared on the Thirteen Ghosts soundtrack with the song "Excess" which (briefly) features Alanis Morissette during two of the choruses. In 2002 that song also appeared on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack.
He has also been concerned with racial stereotyping of the media. In the documentary Naked & Famous he explained how photographers want him to frown angrily in photos, because that is how black artists are marketed. He points to a recent cover of The Big Issue, where he has a more ambiguous, confused look on his face, as being more how he feels. In the song "Tricky Kid" from Pre-Millennium Tension, he wrote "As long as you're humble/Let you be the king of jungle." (This lyric is a reference to Goldie and their spat over Björk.)
Throughout his work, Tricky blurs the normally clear sexual definitions found within hip hop. Despite the heavy influence he drew from American hip hop in his debut album, Maxinquaye, he fights against typical sexual representations by, for example, dressing as a woman on the side sleeve of his album cover. Within many of his tracks he blends elements of varying types of music, and use his lyrics to create a much more ambiguous and blurry reality of sexuality.
Tricky has also acted in various films. He appeared in a significant supporting role in the 1997 Luc Besson film The Fifth Element, playing the right-hand man "Right Arm" to evil businessman Mr. Zorg. He reportedly put off actor Gary Oldman (who played Zorg) because, while he had his back to the camera, he was eating a Twix bar, to Oldman's anger ("He's facking eatin' a Twix!"). "But Gary Oldman took me in, used to make me cups of tea and shit like that. He's got a real deep soul. Y'know, he permitted me to hang out with him and he's up there." He also appears briefly in both the 1997 John Woo directed Face/Off (his single "Christiansands" is also played during his brief cameo) as well as the 2004 Olivier Assayas film Clean, playing himself, and had a large role in the music video for "Parabol/Parabola" by Tool.
In 2001 Tricky appeared in online advertising for the webisodal show We Deliver, about a marijuana delivery service in New York. Though he did not actually appear in any episodes, in the advertising it appears as if he is a customer of the service.
Tricky's 2008 studio album, Knowle West Boy, was released in the UK and Ireland in July 2008 and September 2008 in the U.S. The first single was Council Estate. In an interview with The Skinny in July 2008, Tricky suggested that the album's release was delayed by Bernard Butler who allegedly demanded a co-producer credit on the album after contributing to recording sessions that were ultimately discarded by Tricky. In 2009 a make-over of the album by dance music producers South Rakkas Crew has been released, simply titled as Tricky Meets South Rakkas Crew.
On 8 December 2009, Tricky's 1995 debut album Maxinquaye was reissued with a bonus 13-track CD featuring B-sides, out-takes and 7 previously unreleased mixes including 3 new mixes of Overcome, Hell Is Round The Corner, and Black Steel.
On 10 December 2009, Daddy G. revealed that he met Tricky in Paris and asked him to work on a future Massive Attack project. Tricky agreed.
During an interview on 1 July 2010, Tricky stated that his new album titled Mixed Race was scheduled for release on 27 September 2010. The first single was available on 23 August. The album has guests including Franky Riley, Terry Lynn, Bobby Gillespie, Hamadouche, Blackman, and Tricky's youngest brother Marlon Thaws.
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He began his radio career on leading pirate Rinse FM in 2002 where his show became a popular place to hear the newest music and regularly featured the biggest MCs performing live. His last Rinse show was captured on video on the Rinsessions DVD and showcased such names as Wiley, Skepta, Trim, Ruff Sqwad, Tinchy Stryder, Newham Generals and many others.
He moved to London's Kiss 100 in the spring of 2005 and began a late night specialist Grime show running from 2-4am on Thursday night/Friday morning. The popularity of this show soon saw it move to its current time slot of Monday night 11pm-1am where it has steadily grown to its current position as the leading show amongst young people within London at that time, capturing over 61,000 listeners in the Greater London area as certified by RAJAR. His exposure of live mix sets and first played new tracks has led to him becoming the leading figure in radio for Grime music. His shows are now also captured on video and streamed as Youtube clips which have proved very popular.
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| Name | Leona Lewis |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | Leona Louise Lewis |
| Born | April 03, 1985Islington, London, England |
| Genre | Pop, R&B; |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter |
| Years active | 2006–present |
| Label | Syco, J |
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Lewis is a multi-platinum selling artist and three time Grammy Award nominee. Her most successful single, "Bleeding Love", reached number one in over thirty countries around the world. She was proclaimed 'Top New Artist' by Billboard magazine in 2008. Lewis has released two albums to date, Spirit and Echo, in 2007 and 2009 respectively. Spirit became the fastest-selling debut album and the biggest seller of 2007 in both the United Kingdom and Ireland, and made Lewis the first British solo artist to top the Billboard 200 with a debut album. It has sold over 6.5 million copies worldwide. After leaving the BRIT School at 17, she took a number of jobs to fund studio time, However, none of Lewis's demos were released and she considered taking a hiatus from her music career to attend university until her boyfriend persuaded her to enter The X Factor which subsequently severed her connections with UEG. Steve Mac, and has a 9× platinum certification in the UK. and Ryan Tedder, Music critic Neil McCormick, of The Daily Telegraph, has praised Lewis's technical skills, writing, "Her mezzo-soprano range allows her to take melodies from luxurious low notes to high-flying falsetto, gliding with elegant power and impressive control through all kinds of fluctuations and modulations." Stephen Thomas Erlewine of AllMusic adds, "Lewis can hit [high belted] notes but make it seem easy, never straining her voice and building nicely to the climax." She told The Big Issue, "I got a lot of flak for that. There were people who said I should have done it and given the money to charity, but that would have been such a contradiction." The police were called immediately to the scene and Kowalczyk was arrested. Lewis suffered bruising and was taken to a private doctor as a precaution. He was charged with common assault, for which he was due to appear before City of Westminster magistrates on 26 October 2009. The case was adjourned as Kowalczyk was "not fit to attend court". It was reported that he had a history of mental health problems and may have attacked Lewis due to jealousy, as he had attempted to enter The X Factor but was rejected by producers. On 14 December 2009, Kowalczyk admitted common assault and was ordered to remain in hospital for an indeterminate period.
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| Name | Casa de Leones |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Jaime Borges (J-King)Héctor Padilla (Maximan) Joel Muñoz (Jowell)Randy Ortiz (Randy)Miguel Ángel de Jesús (Guelo Star) |
| Born | December 16, 1978 (J-King)November 14, 1980 (Maximan)March 3, 1982 (Jowell)January 15, 1983 (Randy)September 19, 1981 (Guelo Star) |
| Background | group_or_band |
| Origin | Ponce, Puerto Rico |
| Genre | Reggaeton |
| Years active | 2007-present |
| Label | Warner Music LatinaBlack Lion Records |
| Current members | Jowell & RandyGuelo StarJ-King & Maximan}} |
Casa de Leones (English: "House of Lions"), also known as Los Leones, are a Puerto Rican reggaeton group.
Their first studio album was released on June 26, 2007, and their single hit song No Te Veo reached #4 in The Billboard Hot Latin Charts.
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| Name | Don Omar |
|---|---|
| Background | solo_singer |
| Birth name | William Omar Landrón |
| Born | |
| Origin | Puerto Rico |
| Genre | Reggaeton |
| Occupation | Singer-songwriter, composer, CEO, actor |
| Years active | 2000–present |
| Label | Orfanato Music Group (His Label)VI MusicUniversal Music LatinoMachete Music |
| Url | http://www.universalmusica.com/donomar/Home.aspx |
Landrón participated as in Gilberto Santa Rosa's presentation in an event titled "Concierto del Amor", presented in the Madison Square Garden on February 9, 2008. Where he closed the event and performed reggaeton themes. He was subsequently charged with drug possession, after being allegedly found by policemen Arnaldo Hernández and Neftalí Molina consuming cannabis in a white Hummer. On June 30, 2008, Landrón attended the first court hearing in the drug case against him, accompanied by Guerrido, his brother Luis Landrón and his mother, Toñita Rivera. The charges were reviewed by the judge and several people were interviewed as potential members of the jury. The jury was selected on July 8, 2008. Two days later, Judge Angel Ramírez Ramírez of the Tribunal de Carolina denied a prosecutor's request to extract a DNA sample from a marijuana cigarette, noting that if a previous test done in June brings back negative results the charges against Landrón may be dropped. The hearings had to be posponed on July 10, 2008, because one of the prosecution's witnesses was unable to attend due to pregnancy. The DNA tests were "inconclusive". On July 22, 2008, the charges against Landrón were dropped by the prosecution, after several inconsistencies appeared in the witness accounts.
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