Darryl Sutton Email & Phone Number

Los Angeles, CA

Corporate Base: Louisville, KY

· Design, develop, and deliver cost-effective, high-performance innovative solutions to meet challenging business demands for well-organized international corporations, including Lionsgate Entertainment, EMI Music Publishing, Sony Entertainment, Warner Brothers Records, Universal/NBC, Strang Communications, Nutech Solutions, The Inspirational Network.

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Begin publishing through a joint venture with MCA Records (now Universal Music Group)
• Later sold Famous Music Publishing to Paramount Pictures, a division of Viacom

Greater Los Angeles Area

• Discover and sign Chris Stokes, his production company, and Immature
• Make history by lending his A&R talents to IMX, After 7 as well as Janet Jackson’s first self-titled album on the label, which sold 28 million copies and became Virgin’s first 100-million-dollar project in less than.
• Use intraprenurship to discover producer Tricky Stewart and help develop Brandy and her brother Ray J as well as Little Tyrone (aka Ty Dolla Sign)

Greater Los Angeles Area

• First African American executive to be hired in a creative capacity (as a music publisher) at EMI Music Publishing
• Become an “intrapeneur”, a term that had not yet become common at the time
• Sign writers including Chante Moore, Dallas Austin (Boys II Men, TLC, producer of the movie “Drumline”) and Jermaine Dupri (Kris Kross, Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige)
• Work with writers such as Luther Vandross, Heavy D, Eric B. & Rakim, and Charlie Wilson
• Found The Young Power Brokers, an executive mentorship program that produced dynamic, critically-acclaimed executives including Big Jon Platt (Chairman/CEO of Sony Music Publishing), LaRonda Sutton (Senior VP.
• Help to move EMI from a 3rd market position in R&B/Rap music to #1 in six (6) months, generating millions of dollars in revenue

Greater Los Angeles Area | Greater San Diego Area

• First-ever independent record/production company in San Diego, California to sign with a major label – MCA Records (now Universal Music Group) – in 1988
• Help organize a grassroots 28-city Greyhound Bus tour and manage the Vicious Beat Posse (i.e. DBX, MC Deb-B, Marvee V, Superslim & DJ Candy Man)
• Hold a private party for Klymax’s album, “Maxx is back”, on MCA Records in 1989
• Help sign Vicious Beat Recording to a major distribution deal with MCA records in 1988, and Tardy Music to Paramount Pictures's Famous Music Publishing in 1989
• Release the Vicious Beat Posse’s album, “Legalized Dope”, on MCA Records in 1989

Greater San Diego Area

• Create the first independent music publishing company in San Diego, California with Delton Dormer and Robert Bural Harris, Jr., which signed with Famous Music Publishing (then-owned by Paramount Pictures)
• Release the record label’s first record, “On a Mission”, by rap duo Ace-Fly Duce/Fresh
• Sign Chante Moore to SunTown Records, Inc / Tardy Music in 1986, then to Warner Bros Records in 1988, helping to discover, develop, and create her artistic direction
• Production team, Tony Silva and Robert Harris, write and produce Howard Huntsberry’s MCA Records, “Sleepless Weekend” and “Married Men Get Lonely Too” as well as Howard Johnson’s A&M Records, “Don’t Take This Out of.