Sugar Music is a vertically integrated, family owned, independent business, active globally as a record label, music publisher, soundtrack and audio-visual producer. The company is headquartered in
Milan
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, Italy.
History
Established in 1932 by Ladislao Sugar's insight and entrepreneurial spirit, the company soon made a name for itself as the foremost independent record company in
Italy
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, and is currently among the most prominent Italian music publishers on the European market. It was, until 1974, headquartered in the
Galleria del Corso
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in the
historic center of Milan.
Currently, the company serves as a creative hub run by Filippo Sugar, President and CEO, representing the third Sugar family generation. Filippo is the only child of Piero Sugar and
Caterina Caselli, a key figure in talent scouting and record production in Italy.
Sugarmusic’s catalogue include over 80,000 titles and features songwriters and composers like
Ennio Morricone
Ennio Morricone (; 10 November 19286 July 2020) was an Italian composer, orchestrator, conductor, and trumpeter who wrote music in a wide range of styles. With more than 400 scores for cinema and television, as well as more than 100 classica ...
,
Nino Rota,
Luis Bacalov,
Armando Trovaioli,
Giancarlo Bigazzi,
Umberto Tozzi,
Lucio Battisti,
Fred Buscaglione
Ferdinando "Fred" Buscaglione (; 23 November 1921 – 3 February 1960) was an Italian singer and actor who became very popular in the late 1950s. His public persona – the character he played both in his songs and his movies – was of a humoro ...
,
Paolo Conte
Paolo Conte (; born 6 January 1937) is an Italian singer, pianist, songwriter and lawyer known for his distinctly grainy, resonant voice. His compositions fuse Italian and Mediterranean sounds with jazz, boogie and elements of the French and L ...
, and smash hits like "
Gloria
Gloria may refer to:
Arts and entertainment Music Christian liturgy and music
* Gloria in excelsis Deo, the Greater Doxology, a hymn of praise
* Gloria Patri, the Lesser Doxology, a short hymn of praise
** Gloria (Handel)
** Gloria (Jenkins) ...
", "
Ti amo", "
Self Control", "
Nessuno mi può giudicare", "Un'estate italiana", "
Con te partirò/Time to Say Goodbye".
Over time, the Sugar recording label has discovered and developed global superstar
Andrea Bocelli,
Elisa,
Negramaro,
Malika Ayane,
Raphael Gualazzi.
[ Today, the label boasts 23 artists signed exclusively, including some of the most promising developing, Italian artists. These include, Madame, Speranza, Michael Leonardi, Lucio Corsi, Sissi, NYV, Fuera and Kety Fusco.
The Sugar Music publisher roster features 42 exclusive writers, including Giuliano Sangiorgi, Salmo, Willie Peyote, Mannarino, Stabber; Ketama126, as well as music publishing deals with Tiziano Ferro and Cesare Cremonini.
]
Artists
Among the international artists of the record label, Andrea Bocelli and the Negramaro stand out.
References
External links
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Italian record labels