SBK Records was a record label of the EMI Group that was founded in 1988.

Stephen Swid, Martin Bandier, and Charles Koppelman formed the production company SBK in 1989 after they purchased the music publishing division of CBS Records in 1986.

The partners sold the company to EMI Music Publishing (for a reported US$295 million), and launched SBK Records. It was distributed through the short-lived EMI Records Group North America, or ERG. In 1989, Daniel Glass joined SBK as Senior Vice President of Promotion. In 1990, Glass was promoted to Executive Vice President/General Manager. With the consolidation of SBK, Chrysalis, Wild Pitch and EMI Records USA several years later into EMI Records Group North America, he rose to President-CEO.

The label had several hits with Vanilla Ice, Jesus Jones, Boy George, Wilson Phillips, Ya Kid K, McQueen Street,Technotronic, Blur, and Billy Dean.

SBK Records is part of the EMI Group, but is dormant as of 2007, when Martin Bandier left EMI Publishing for Sony Corp.'s Sony/ATV Music Publishing.

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Gibson (born August 31, 1970) is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and actress. In 1988 she was pronounced the youngest artist to write, produce, and perform a #1 single on the Billboard Hot 100, with her song "Foolish Beat" and she remains the youngest female to write, record, and perform a #1 single. She has gone on to starring roles on Broadway and touring musicals, as well as independent film and television work. She continues to record, and reached the Billboard Adult Contemporary chart as high as #24 during 2006 in a duet with Jordan Knight titled "Say Goodbye". In 2010, the album Ms. Vocalist, from Sony Japan was Top 10 on the Japanese Billboard chart and the first single from the album, “I Love You”, hit #1.

Debbie Gibson was born in Brooklyn, New York, the third daughter of four for Diane and Joseph Gibson. She grew up in the Long Island suburb of Merrick and was raised Catholic. At the age of five, she began performing in community theater with her sisters Karen, Michele, and Denise, and cousin T.J Normandin and wrote her first song, "Make Sure You Know Your Classroom". At age eight, she sang in the children's chorus at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. She began playing the ukulele and taking piano lessons soon after, including with American pianist Morton Estrin. She said that her household was probably the only one where bystanders would hear kids fighting over piano playing time.

Ya Kid K. (born Manuela Barbara Kamosi Moaso Djogi, 26 January 1973, Kinshasa, Zaire) is a Congolese-Belgian hip hop artist. Her sister, Karoline 'Leki' Kamosi, is an R&B singer.

At the age of 11 she moved to Belgium, later moving to cities in the U.S. such as Chicago, Illinois – where she explored the emerging sounds of hip hop and early house – and Dallas, Texas. After moving back to Belgium from the U.S., she helped form a hip hop label, Fresh Beat Productions. She was part of the dance project Technotronic, which debuted with a major worldwide hit in 1989, "Pump Up The Jam", although her contribution was initially uncredited (except for her name being printed on the disc).

Although she wrote the lyrics and sang vocals on "Pump Up The Jam",Technotronic had the blue-lipped fashion model Felly perform in the video. The second single "Get Up (Before the Night is Over)" was her debut public appearance with Technotronic. She additionally lent her voice to Hi Tek 3, a dance project whose only single, "Spin that Wheel," appeared on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles motion picture soundtrack.