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Pete Waterman Entertainment

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Pete Waterman Entertainment (PWE) is the production company one-time pop and dance record label owned by pop mogul Pete Waterman. [1]

61 relations: Anticappella, Australia, Bananarama, Big Fun (band), BMG Rights Management, Boney M., Boy Krazy, Brother Beyond, Cliff Richard, Dance music, Dead or Alive (band), Diamond D, Divine (performer), Donna Summer, EBUL, Ed O.G., England, Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker, Hazell Dean, Hip hop music, I Should Be So Lucky, Jason Donovan, Jive Records, Kakko (singer), Kim Appleby, Kylie Minogue, List of record labels, London Boys, Lonnie Gordon, Loveland (band), Mandy Smith, Mel and Kim, Mercury Records, Netherlands, Niki Evans, One True Voice, Opus III (band), Paul Lekakis, Pete Waterman, PolyGram, Pop music, Pop!, Princess (singer), RCA/Jive Label Group, Record label, Rick Astley, Sabrina Salerno, Same Difference, Sinitta, Sonia (singer), ..., Sony Music, Steps (pop group), Stock Aitken Waterman, Strange Nature, Sybil (singer), The Reynolds Girls, The Sheilas, Tina Cousins, Warner Music Group, 1987 in music, 2 Unlimited. Expand index (11 more) »

Anticappella

Anticappella was an Italian electronic music group led by Gianfranco Bortolotti, the founder of Cappella.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Bananarama

Bananarama are a British female pop music vocal group formed in London in 1981 by friends Sara Dallin, Siobhan Fahey and Keren Woodward.

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Big Fun (band)

Big Fun were an English boy band who were active between 1988 and 1994.

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BMG Rights Management

BMG Rights Management GmbH is an international music company focused on the management of music publishing, recording rights and music distribution.

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Boney M.

Boney M. was a Euro-Caribbean vocal group created by German record producer Frank Farian.

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Boy Krazy

Boy Krazy was a New York City-based girl group that saw brief fame in 1991, and again in 1993 with their hit single "That's What Love Can Do".

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Brother Beyond

Brother Beyond were a British boy band/pop group who had mainstream success in the late 1980s.

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Cliff Richard

Sir Cliff Richard, (born Harry Rodger Webb, 14 October 1940) is a British pop singer, musician, performer, actor and philanthropist.

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Dance music

Dance music is music composed specifically to facilitate or accompany dancing.

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Dead or Alive (band)

Dead or Alive was an English pop band, formed in 1980 in Liverpool.

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Diamond D

Diamond D (born Joseph Kirkland; April 5, 1969) is a hip hop producer and MC from the Bronx, New York City, and one of the founding members of the Diggin' in the Crates Crew.

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Divine (performer)

Harris Glenn Milstead, better known by his stage name Divine (October 19, 1945 – March 7, 1988), was an American actor, singer, and drag queen.

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Donna Summer

LaDonna Adrian Gaines (December 31, 1948May 17, 2012), widely known by her stage name Donna Summer, was an American singer, songwriter, and painter.

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EBUL

EBUL is a record label belonging to Pete Waterman Ltd and Jive/Zomba.

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Ed O.G.

Edward Anderson (born November 27, 1970) is a hip-hop artist from Boston, Massachusetts, United States, better known by his stage names Ed O.G. and Edo G..

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England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker

"Everybody Wants to Dance Like Josephine Baker" is a 1989 single by German band Boney M. Produced by Barry Blue and recorded by original Boney M. members Marcia Barrett, Bobby Farrell, Maizie Williams and singer Madeleine Davis replacing Liz Mitchell, the single was withdrawn when original producer Frank Farian claimed copyright to the name Boney M. and a court case followed.

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Hazell Dean

Hazell Dean (born Hazel Dean Poole, 27 October 1952) is an English dance-pop singer, who achieved her biggest success in the 1980s as a leading Hi-NRG artist.

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Hip hop music

Hip hop music, also called hip-hopMerriam-Webster Dictionary entry on hip-hop, retrieved from: A subculture especially of inner-city black youths who are typically devotees of rap music; the stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rap; also rap together with this music.

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I Should Be So Lucky

"I Should Be So Lucky" is a 1987 song performed by Australian recording artist and songwriter Kylie Minogue from her debut studio album Kylie (1988).

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Jason Donovan

Jason Sean Donovan (born 1 June 1968) is an Australian actor and singer.

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Jive Records

Jive Records was an American record label under the RCA Music Group formed in 1981 by Zomba Records. Formerly headquartered in New York City, the label was best known for a string of successes with hip hop artists in the 1980s, and also in teen pop and boy bands during the 1990s and early 2000s. Jive Records operated as an independently managed label until 2003, when Bertelsmann Music Group (BMG) acquired the remainder of its parent company Zomba for US $2.74 billion, which at the time was the largest-ever acquisition of an independent label with major-label distribution.

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Kakko (singer)

Kakko (born September 23, 1969 in Osaka, Japan), is one of the pseudonyms of Kakuko Yamagata (former name Kakuko Suzuki), a Japanese actress, TV presenter and former pop singer.

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Kim Appleby

Kim Lorraine Appleby (born 28 August 1961), is an English singer, songwriter, and actress.

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Kylie Minogue

Kylie Ann Minogue, (born 28 May 1968) is an Australian-British singer and actress.

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List of record labels

For lists of record labels, see.

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London Boys

London Boys were a German-based English dance-pop duo composed of Edem Ephraim (born 1 July 1959 in London, England – 21 January 1996) and Dennis Fuller (born 19 June 1959 in Jamaica – 21 January 1996).

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Lonnie Gordon

Lonnie Gordon (born November 8, 1965, Philadelphia) is an American female dance, pop and R&B singer and songwriter from New York's Bronx, who scored a few chart hits during the 1990s.

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Loveland (band)

Loveland were an English house & electronica group, formed in 1994 by Mark Hadfield, Paul Taylor and Paul Waterman.

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Mandy Smith

Amanda Louise "Mandy" Smith (born 17 July 1970) is an English former pop singer and model.

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Mel and Kim

Mel and Kim were a British pop duo, consisting of sisters Melanie and Kim Appleby.

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Mercury Records

Mercury Records is an American-based record label owned by Universal Music Group.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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Niki Evans

Niki Evans (born 13 December 1972) is an English singer.

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One True Voice

One True Voice were a short-lived British boy band created on the ITV television series Popstars: The Rivals in which pop groups of both genders created through a public vote would contest the UK Singles Chart for the 2002 Christmas number one single.

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Opus III (band)

Opus III was an English electronic music group who had success on the UK Singles Chart and on the U.S. Dance charts.

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Paul Lekakis

Paul Lekakis (born October 1966) is an American actor, model, filmmaker and club music / Hi-NRG singer, who was discovered for his musical and dancing skills at a nightclub while on assignment as a model in Italy.

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Pete Waterman

Peter Alan Waterman, OBE (born 15 January 1947) is an English record producer, songwriter, radio and club DJ, television presenter, president of Coventry Bears rugby league club and a keen railway enthusiast.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Pop!

Pop! were a British pop group consisting of Glen Ball, Hannah Lewis, Jamie Tinkler, and Jade McGuire.

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Princess (singer)

Desiree Heslop, best known as Princess, is a British singer who found chart success in the mid-1980s.

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RCA/Jive Label Group

RCA/Jive Label Group was a short-lived American record label group, owned by Sony Music Entertainment and representing the merger of the RCA Music Group and Jive Label Group.

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Record label

A record label, or record company, is a brand or trademark associated with the marketing of music recordings and music videos.

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Rick Astley

Richard Paul Astley (born 6 February 1966) is an English singer, songwriter and radio personality.

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Sabrina Salerno

Sabrina Salerno, also known in her singing career as Sabrina, is an Italian singer, songwriter, record producer, glamour model, actress and television presenter.

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Same Difference

Same Difference were an English bubblegum pop duo from Portsmouth, England, made up of siblings Sean Smith and Sarah Smith.

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Sinitta

Sinitta Malone (born 19 October 1963), known professionally as Sinitta, is an American born singer.

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Sonia (singer)

Sonia (born Sonia Evans; 13 February 1971) is an English pop singer from Liverpool.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Steps (pop group)

Steps are a British dance-pop group consisting of Lee Latchford-Evans, Claire Richards, Lisa Scott-Lee, Faye Tozer and Ian "H" Watkins.

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Stock Aitken Waterman

Stock Aitken Waterman (abbreviated as SAW) are an English songwriting and record producing trio consisting of Mike Stock, Matt Aitken, and Pete Waterman.

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Strange Nature

Strange Nature was an indie rock band from the United Kingdom signed to Pete Waterman's PWL record label in the UK, Warner Music in Europe, and Warner Chappell Music for worldwide publishing.

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Sybil (singer)

Sybil Lynch, known simply as Sybil, is an American R&B and pop singer–songwriter.

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The Reynolds Girls

The Reynolds Girls were a British vocal duo composed of sisters Linda (born in 1970) and Aisling Reynolds (born in 1972).

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The Sheilas

The Sheilas are a pop girl group who found fame with Stock Aitken Waterman, after they were featured in an advertising campaign for the car insurance company Sheilas' Wheels.

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Tina Cousins

Tina Patricia Cousins (born 20 April 1971) is an English singer, songwriter and former model.

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Warner Music Group

Warner Music Group (WMG, also referred to as Warner Music or WEA International) is an American multinational entertainment and record label conglomerate headquartered in New York City.

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1987 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1987.

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2 Unlimited

2 Unlimited is a dance act founded by Belgian producers Jean-Paul DeCoster and Phil Wilde in 1991 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pete_Waterman_Entertainment

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