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Music

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Decca Records Decca Records is a British record label established in 1929 by Edward Lewis (Decca), Edward Lewis after his acquisition of a gramophone manufacturer, The Decca Gramophone Company. It set up an American subsidiary under the Decca name, which bec ...
or Decca Music Group, record label * Decca Gold, classical music record label owned by Universal Music Group * Decca Broadway, musical theater record label * Decca Studios, recording facility in West Hampstead, England * London Decca, maker of turntable tonearms and cartridges * Decca tree, microphone recording system *
The Deccas The Deccas are a guitar based band formed in 2007 in the Medway Delta, currently signed to indie music label 208 Records. The Deccas have played many gigs in and around Medway and London and have been described as short, sharp songsmiths with ...
, guitar-based band from Medway, England


People


Given name

* Decca Aitkenhead, English journalist, writer and broadcaster.


Surname

* Grace Decca (born 1966), Cameroonian singer and producer *
Marie Decca Marie Decca was the stage name of Mary Smith ( Johnston; after first marriage, Chrisman; after second marriage, Smith; 1859-unknown), an American lyric soprano operatic singer. She became known as the "Jenny Lind of America". Loomis (1898) descri ...
(1859-?), American opera singer *
Mpundi Decca Mpudi Decca was a Congo music recording artist and guitarist in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). He was once a member of the Congo music band TPOK Jazz, led by François Luambo Makiadi, which dominated the Congolese music scene from t ...
, Congolese guitarist


Other

* '' Decca: The Letters of Jessica Mitford'', 2006 book by Jessica Mitford *
Decca Navigator System The Decca Navigator System was a hyperbolic navigation, hyperbolic radio navigation system that allowed ships and aircraft to determine their position by using radio signals from a dedicated system of static radio transmitters. The system use ...
, defunct marine and aeronautical navigation system * Decca Radar, later Racal-Decca Marine, a defunct marine electronics manufacturer *
Decca Sports Ground Decca Sports Ground is a cricket ground in Tolworth, London (formerly Surrey). The first recorded professional match on the ground was in 1973, when Surrey played Northamptonshire in a List-A match in the 1973 John Player League as Surrey u ...
, cricket ground in London, England * Decca, old spelling of
Dhaka Dhaka ( or ; , ), List of renamed places in Bangladesh, formerly known as Dacca, is the capital city, capital and list of cities and towns in Bangladesh, largest city of Bangladesh. It is one of the list of largest cities, largest and list o ...
, capital of Bangladesh * ''
Ladda decca ''Ladda decca'' is a species of butterfly Butterflies are winged insects from the lepidopteran superfamily Papilionoidea, characterized by large, often brightly coloured wings that often fold together when at rest, and a conspicuous, ...
'', species of butterfly in the family Hesperiidae


See also

* Deca (disambiguation) * Deccan (disambiguation), terms related to the Deccan Plateau in southern India {{disambiguation