Bob Morgado signs China Star & launches China label.NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 10, 1996--Robert Morgado, chairman of Maroley Communications, has signed Kris Phillips to a four-recording deal with his newly formed mainland Chinese label, Youban Music. Phillips, known in Asia as Fei Xiang Fei Xiang (born Kris Phillips on December 24, 1960; Traditional Chinese: , pinyin: Fèi Xiáng) is a Taiwanese-American pop idol and musical singer. Born in Taiwan to an American father and a Chinese mother, Fei Xiang spent his childhood in Taipei. , left China in 1989 as a pop idol This article is about the British television series. For general popular culture icons, see pop icon. Pop Idol is a British television series which debuted on ITV on October 5 2001; the show was a talent contest to decide the best new young pop singer, with 20 million in sales through six Thorn-EMI releases, two with PolyGram and five releases on independent labels. He left after completing a 62-appearance concert tour that led the New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of Times to say the "6-foot-3, Blue-Eyed Taiwanese-American is China's top rocker." "He has sold more cassette tapes than any other singer in China," The Times noted. "And his murmuring love songs and glitzy glitz Informal n. Ostentatious showiness; flashiness: "a garish barrage of show-biz glitz" Peter G. Davis. tr.v. stage shows have made him perhaps the most popular singer on the Chinese mainland." Morgado, previously chairman of the Warner Music Group Warner Music Group (WMG) is one of the four major record labels. Warner Music Group also has a publishing arm, Warner/Chappell Music, which dates back to 1929, when Jack Warner, president of Warner Bros. Pictures Inc. , formed Maroley Communications last fall. In February he launched Youban Television, a Shanghai-headquartered television production, distribution and advertising syndication company that airs Yang Lan's Horizon, a weekly entertainment newsmagazine currently sponsored by Unilever and viewed by more than 200 million people across mainland China. Upon his return last week from a 10-day trip to China and Vietnam, Morgado committed $5 million to launch his first foray back into the music business since his departure from Warners last May. That foray includes the Youban label and several other ventures including a distribution business. Both the label and the television companies fall under the umbrella of the Youban Entertainment Group chaired by Bruno Z. Wu, Morgado's Shanghainese business partner. Morgado and Wu plan on taking advantage of the synergies between music and television with a television special featuring Fei Xiang and his music that is slated to air in the fall, shortly before the release of the first of Fei Xiang's Youban recordings. The four-recording contract will include a greatest hit album from the pop tunes that made Fei Xiang famous. Since his departure from China, Fei Xiang has resided in New York where he has performed in Miss Saigon Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, with lyrics by Boublil and Richard Maltby, Jr.. It premiered at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, in London on September 20, 1989, closing after 4,264 performances on October 30 1999. , Nick and Nora, Hot Keys and the national tour of The Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber Noun 1. Andrew Lloyd Webber - English composer of many successful musicals (some in collaboration with Sir Tim Rice) (born in 1948) Baron Lloyd Webber of Sydmonton, Lloyd Webber , all to excellent reviews in the Times and other publications. He is currently completing the vocal tracks for his fall release, preparing a video and weighing offers for endorsements and commercials in the Asian markets. Morgado sees the signing, the first of three planned for the next few months, as a cornerstone of his launch of the Youban label. He believes that his distribution strategy will be a key factor in enabling him to succeed in overcoming the formidable hurdles of the China market. - Interviews: Morgado, Maroley executive VP Richard Esposito and Wu are available to speak on the label and signing. - Phillips has limited availability When customers of the PSTN make telephone calls, they commonly make use of a telecommunications network called a switched-circuit network. In a switched-circuit network, devices known as switches are used to connect the caller to the callee. but can accommodate media reports. - Collateral Material: Biography, discography dis·cog·ra·phy n. Examination of the intervertebral disk space using x-rays after injection of contrast media into the disk. , clips on Phillips upon request. CONTACT: Maroley Communications, New York Dawn Flock, 212/308-4504, ext. 201 |
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