Mercury Record Corporation was formed in Chicago in 1945. It released music covering a range of genres but covered mainly...

In 1958, when Curtis Mayfield entered the music industry, no African American recording artist owned their own songs or recordings....

OKeh Records was founded by Otto K. E. Heinemann, a German American, who set up a recording studio and pressing plant...

The association of the Brunswick name with popular music goes back a long way. Brunswick-Balke-Collender, a company based in Iowa, was...

The two Chess brothers were born in a village in Poland called Motal, which is now in Belarus: Lejzor in...

Vivian Carter was born in 1921 in Tunica, Mississippi, during the year that saw the birth of Race Records at...

In 1957 Jim Stewart set up a company that he named Satellite Records, in a former garage in Memphis. Jim...

Roe Erister Hall was born in 1932. His family were sharecroppers in Forest Grove, Mississippi. He acquired a nickname, Rick....

The majority of New Orleans landmark recordings came out of first J&M Studios and then the Cosimo Recording Studio, both...

In 1850, the United States Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Act, in an attempt to prevent escaped Southern slaves from...