Andre O’Neal Harrell (September 26, 1960 – May 7, 2020) was an American record executive, media proprietor, and former rapper.[3] He formed the short lived East Coast hip hop duo Dr. Jeckyll & Mr. Hyde with Alonzo Brown in 1980, who signed with Profile Records the following year. After their 1986 disbandment, he founded the record label Uptown Records that same year, which saw commercial success in contemporary R&B, new jack swing, and hip hop music releases into the coming decade. The label entered a distribution deal with MCA Records and signed artists including Jodeci, Heavy D & the Boyz, Mary J. Blige, Guy, and Al B. Sure, as well as then-unknowns the Notorious B.I.G. and Puff Daddy, among others.[4] He is credited with discovering and giving the latter his start in the industry in 1990.[5] Harrell was later appointed as CEO of Motown from 1995 to 1997.[4]
Following years of sustained medical issues, Harrell died of heart failure in May 2020.[6]
^"Dr. Jeckyll Discography | Discogs". Discogs. Retrieved 19 February 2024.
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^Janine McAdams, "Uptown, MCA seal multimedia deal: Harrell looks to 'synergize' music, film, TV", Billboard, 1992 Jun 20;104(25):8,89. For a briefer take, see Dimitri Ehrlich, "Andre the giant", New York, 1992 Sep 21;25(37):26.
^ abKiki Mason, "Pop goes the ghetto", New York, 1995 Oct 23;28(42):37–43, whereby p 38 offers a Harrell portrait prioritizing the recent, p 40 covers Harrell's early life and segues into his start in the music business, p 41 includes his own successes in it, p 42 introduces Sean "Puffy" Combs, and p 43 returns to Harrell in the present, 1995, including recent multimedia ventures.
^Natasha S Alford, interviewer, "Andre Harrell dishes on how he helped take Diddy from shirtless ‘bad boy’ to music mogul", TheGrio.com, TheGrio, 20 May 2016.
^"Andre Harrell, music executive who founded Uptown Records and discovered Diddy, has died at 59 - CBS News". CBS News. 9 May 2020.
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