Website hmg.cm Founded 17 February 2012 | Type Subsidiary | |
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Industry Music and entertainment Genre Pop musicWorld musicHip hop and R&B Key people Philippe NKouaya (CEO)Nelson Feukam (Sales & Distribution Manager) Products ProductionPromotionDistributionMusic licensing Parent Hope Entertainment Holding Profiles | ||
Hope Music Group (sometimes known plainly by the initials as, HMG)is a Cameroonian record label that mainly produces hip hop, urban & popular music. It is distributed by The Orchard, a subsidiary of Sony Music Entertainment. The label produces and distributes various artists as Fanicko, Dynastie le tigre, Michael Kiessou, Featurist and record labels as White House Music, Tiger Production, MKO Music.
Hope Music Group was founded by Philippe Nkouaya & Anthony Gorby in 2012. The label's first release was a mixtape by his music producer Philjohn.
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History
The company was founded in February 2012 by Philippe Nkouaya and Anthony Gorby in Douala, Cameroon. Active independent label in popular music, the company developed many activities in order to offer a formula as 360 deals (music recording, visual content production, development, promotion and music publishing). In order to provide the most comprehensive solutions to the entertainment industry in Africa, HMG signed independent artists as Michael Kiessou, Dynastie le tigre and gained partnerships with MTN Cameroon (AIM), Putumayo World Music (Content connect Africa) and The Orchard . HMG energized the breakthrough of Cameroonian urban music by managing artists and developing urban music styles in Cameroon and abroad.
The label catalog is rather modern, Pop, Contemporary R&B, world music, electronic music, reggae, soul and hip-hop. The label released several projects such as Partage EP of Michael Kiessou , La loi de la nature of Dynastie le tigre and Parti De Rien of Georges Breezy.