Perspective Records

Perspective Records
Parent company Universal Music Group
Founded 1991 (1991)
Founder James Harris, Terry Lewis
Defunct 1999 (1999)
Status Defunct
Distributor(s) A&M Records
Country of origin U.S.

Perspective Records was an American record label, launched in 1991 by the producing team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, through a joint venture with A&M Records—which Jam & Lewis had had a prosperous working relationship with throughout the 1980s, with several of its major acts including Janet Jackson, The Human League, and label founder Herb Alpert.

Acts on Perspective's roster included Bobby Ross Avila, Smooth, Mint Condition, Lo-Key, Solo, Sounds of Blackness, Young Zee, and Ann Nesby. From 1993 to 1996, A&M Records released most of its own urban acts through Perspective. In 1997, Jam and Lewis resigned as the label's CEOs, but remained consultants. Over the next year, Perspective continued to release recordings by the current artists for the sake of fulfilling contractual obligations with them.[1] The company was dismantled, and absorbed into A&M Records, in early 1999—per the merger of A&M's PolyGram parent and Universal Music Group.

Albums released on Perspective Records

Sounds of Blackness

Lo-Key?

Mint Condition

Drama

4.0

Rufus Blaq

Smooth

Bobby Ross Avila

Raja-Nee

Solo

Ann Nesby

Lisa Keith

Soundtracks

Shelved albums

Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard

Young Zee

References

  1. ↑ "Perspective Records". On A&M Records.com. 2006.
  2. ↑ Pudgee The Phat Bastard - The Unkut Interview, Part 2
  3. ↑ Young Zee- Musical Meltdown CD at Fat Beats

See also


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