Microphone Records ( or short MicRec) is a Latvian

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and distribution company founded in 1993 (although it can be traced back to 1992, when its first record was released under the '’MicRec'’ brand label) by professional radio journalist Elita Mīlgrāve and professional record producer and musician Guntars Račs. Since 1996, Microphone Records has a

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with the

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artists in the

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. Microphone Records owns the following labels ''MicRec'', ''Aktiv'' and ''Raibā Taureņa Ieraksti'', and also operates as the official distributor for the

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record labels, among others. Microphone Records has a publishing division "MicRec Publishing" the sub publisher for EMI Music Publishing and Sony/ATV. Some of Latvia's most famous pop, rock and dance music artists are signed with Microphone Records:

Raimonds Pauls Ojārs Raimonds Pauls (born 12 January 1936) is a Latvian composer and a pianist who is well known in the Baltic countries and Eastern Europe. He was the Minister of Culture of Latvia from 1988 to 1993. His songs were performed by such popular si ...

Prāta Vētra Prāta Vētra, known internationally as Brainstorm, is a Latvian pop/rock band. The band became popular internationally in 2000 when they finished third in the Eurovision Song Contest 2000 with the song "My Star (Brainstorm song), My Star". H ...

(Brainstorm),

Lauris Reiniks Lauris Reiniks (born July 11, 1979) is a Latvians, Latvian pop music singer, songwriter, television host and actor. He has graduated from Jelgava Music college, studied communication science at the University of Latvia and trained as an actor in L ...

, Līvi, Credo, Pērkons, Vaidava, Laima Vaikule, Olga Rajecka, Turaidas Roze, Zodiaks, Remix, Igo, Eolika, Menuets, Zigmars Liepiņš, Jānis Lūsēns, Ingus Baušķenieks, Valdis Atāls, Ieva Akuratere, Tumsa, DJ Ella, BTH, Opus Pro, Aisha, Andris Ērglis, bet bet, Jauns Mēness, Dzeguzīte, Knīpas un Knauķi, Normunds Rutulis, Ance Krauze, Marija Naumova, Marhils are some of the main artists distributed by the brand. Microphone Records is one of the few record companies, in the region, with an international success. MicRec has gotten chart entries at the UK Top 40 (BTH) as well as the France Club Chart (DJ Ella). Represented band "Brainstorm" has had chart entries in Belgium, Germany, Poland, Sweden and other European countries. MicRec has had 7 of their distributed artists competing at the grand finals of the Eurovision song contest. In 2011 Microphone Records released

album "Es skrienu", which was later re-released in Estonia ("Ma jooksen") & Lithuania ("Aš bėgu") as well as Germany ("Ich renne").

Currently signed artists

* Brainstorm *

* Ričijs Rū / Richie Roo / Ričis Ra * Musiqq * LieneCandy *

Aija Andrejeva Aija Andrejeva (born 16 January 1986 in Lielvarde), better known by her stage name Aisha (), is a Latvian singer. Eurovision Song Contest 2010 On 27 February 2010, Aija Andrejeva won the Latvian national final ''Eirodziesma 2010'', and has repres ...

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