- Blackground Records
infobox record label
parent =
founded = 1993
founder = Barry Hankerson
distributor =Universal Records (US)
genre = Various
country = US
url = [http://www.blackground.net/ Official website of Blackground Records]Blackground Records is an American
record label , owned by entertainment attorney and artist managerBarry Hankerson and his sonJomo Hankerson . The label is home toAaliyah ,JoJo ,Timbaland & Magoo , Tank, Kali Girls andJAK .In
1993 , when Hankerson's teenaged niece Aaliyah couldn't get a record deal, Hankerson formed the label, and she became its first signee. At the time, Hankerson was managingR. Kelly , and was able to get his labelJive Records to distribute Blackground's releases. In1996 Blackground obtained a lucrative distribution deal withAtlantic Records , just before the release of Aaliyah's second album, "One in a Million".Often playing distributor hopscotch, in
2000 , Blackground switched over toEMI 'sVirgin Records . Two years later, it moved again, this time finding a home atUniversal Motown Records Group .Currently the most successful acts from the label are JoJo &
Aaliyah .The following artists signed to Blackground
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Aaliyah
*Ashley Parker Angel
*Timbaland & Magoo
*Timbaland
*JoJo
*Tank
*Playa
*Static Major
*Toni Braxton (2003-2007)
*Kasey Butler
*Kali Girls
*JAK See also
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