Dante Ross
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Dante Ross is an American music industry executive, A&R and producer. Ross was recently named one of the top 25 greatest A&Rs in Hip Hop [1] by Complex Magazine . Ross started his A&R career at Tommy Boy records where he signed and handled the careers of such artists as De La Soul, Queen Latifah and Digital Underground. He then went on to work for Elektra records where he signed Brand Nubian, Grand Puba, Pete Rock & C.L Smooth, KMD, Leaders of the New School and Ol’ Dirty Bastard. He is currently a VP of A&R at Warner Music Group.
As a producer, Ross has produced records for artists such as 3rd Bass, Del Tha Funky Homosapien, Santana, Everlast (working on both the multi platinum album Whitey Ford Sings The Blues and the gold follow-up Eat At Whitey's) plus many others. Ross earned a Grammy in 1998 for his work on Carlos Santana's Supernatural. Ross’ production work has also appeared on Eminem’s 8 Mile soundtrack, where he produced and co-wrote 2 songs that featured Macy Grey and Young Z. Ross has also been enlisted for his remixing skills, which has seen him remix Korn amongst other artists.
References
- Complex Magazine [2]
- Wax Poetics [1]
- Stop The Breaks [3]
- Channel Dynamic [4]
- LTD Magazine [2]
- LA Weekly [3]
- ^ Complex, Magazine. "Top 25 Greatest A&Rs in Hip Hop".
- ^ "19. Dante Ross — The 25 Best A&Rs in Hip-Hop History". Complex. 2013-02-01. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- ^ Nguyen, Hao. "Hip-Hop Gem: Dante Ross Helped Busta Rhymes To Go SoloStop The Breaks | For Hip-Hop Heads". Stopthebreaks.com. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
- ^ on December 4, 2013 (2013-12-04). "Dante Ross On Discovering Young Queen Latifah Channel Dynamic". Channeldynamic.com. Retrieved 2013-12-13.
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