Empire hires Amir Abbassy in Content role and Peter Kadin as VP of Marketing

Company will soon release music from Iggy Azalea and Robin Thicke
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‘You get the best out of an artist if you treat them like a partner, rather than someone who is subservient.’

Empire founder Ghazi Shami explains how his business is competing successfully with major labels
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Universal Music Group inks multi-year partnership with Ghazi Shami’s Empire

San Francisco-based distribution firm has worked with Anderson .Paak, XXXTENTACION, Cardi B and Kendrick Lamar
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‘Empire’ Creator Lee Daniels: I Tried to Commit Suicide by Contracting AIDS

Lee Daniels, the creative force behind ‘Empire’, almost didn’t make it.  Now, he’s opening up about his struggles as a gay African-American. One of television’s brightest stars almost ended his own show early.  “AIDS wiped away all of my friends,” Empire creator Lee Daniels recently told the Hollywood Reporter.  “I had no friends… It was […]

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Is Hit TV Show ‘Empire’ Stolen From a 2007 Novel?

According to the author of the book Unity Incorporated: The Mastermind, it was… The novelist Timothy J. Levi has filed a $1.5 billion lawsuit against Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Lee Daniels, Danny Strong, and Robert Walker for the alleged copyright infringement of his book titled Unity Incorporated: The Mastermind. Levi alleges that the hit tv show ‘Empire’ was completely based […]

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