Legendary Warner Bros. Records Exec Mo Ostin Dead at 95

Legendary Warner Bros. Records music govt Mo Ostin has died. He was 95.

Ostin started his profession within the mid-50s as a controller at Clef Records. The corporate was quickly renamed Verve, the place he was concerned with Jazz on the Philharmonic. Verve was finally offered to MGM Records. Frank Sinatra was so impressed that he employed Mo Ostin in 1960 to go his Reprise Records. In 1963, Reprise Records joined Warner Bros., the place Ostin spent 32 years. He signed Jimi Hendrix in 1967 after seeing him carry out on the Monterey Pop Competition.

“Legendary music govt Mo Ostin handed away peacefully in his sleep final night time on the age of 95,” shares Tom Corson, Co-Chairman & COO, Warner Records. “Mo was one of many biggest report males of all time, and a chief architect of the trendy music enterprise. For Mo, it was all the time firstly about serving to artists understand their imaginative and prescient.”

“One of many pivotal figures within the evolution of Warner Music Group, within the Sixties Mo ushered Warner/Reprise Records right into a golden period of revolutionary, culture-shifting artistry,” Corson continues. “Over his subsequent three a long time on the label, he remained a tireless champion of inventive freedom, each for the expertise he nurtured and the individuals who labored for him.”

“Mo lived a unprecedented life doing what he beloved, and he might be deeply missed all through the industr he helped create, and by the numerous artists and colleagues whom he impressed to be their finest selves. On behalf of everybody at Warner, we wish to thank Mo fo all the pieces he did, and for his inspiring perception in our shiny future. Our condolences exit to his household at this tough time,” provides Aaron Bay-Shuck, Co-Chairman & CEO of Warner Records.

In 2003, Mo Ostin was inducted into the Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame. Three years later, he acquired the Recording Academy President’s Benefit Award on the 2006 Grammy Salute to Trade Icons. Ostin donated $10 million to his alma mater UCLA in Could 2011 for a state-of-the-art campus music facility.