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One Liners: Carmen DeLeon, SoundCloud, The Black Eyed Peas, more
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 6 June 2019
DEALS
Capitol Music Group and Universal Music Latin Entertainment have signed singer Carmen DeLeon to a worldwide record deal. “We are approaching her development from a global perspective that’s befitting to her ability to sing flawlessly in both English and Spanish”, says CMG EVP Jeremy Vuernick. In English. Not Spanish.
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APPOINTMENTS
SoundCloud has named Gilles BianRosa its new Chief Product Officer. He joins from Samsung, where he held the same role overseeing the company’s smart TVs.
Law firm Harbottle & Lewis has promoted music lawyer Raffaella De Santis to a Senior Associate in Technology, Media & Entertainment.
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RELEASES
The Black Eyed Peas have released new track ‘Be Nice’, featuring Snoop Dogg.
Roisin Murphy has released new single ‘Incapable’. “‘Incapable’ was a little experiment in songwriting for me”, she says. “I thought it might be fun to write from a point of view totally opposite to the usual heartbreak and despair”.
Temples have announced that they will release new album, ‘Hot Motion’, on 27 Sep. Here’s the title track.
The reformed Salad have released ‘Under The Wrapping Paper’. The track is the first single from their new album, ‘The Salad Way’, which is out on 30 Aug.
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GIGS & TOURS
Hackney Colliery Band will perform tracks from their ‘Collaborations’ album – with their collaborators – at the Barbican in London on 5 Oct. More info here.
