Parent company Universal Music Group Status Defunct Country of origin U.S. Founders James Harris, Terry Lewis | Defunct 1999 (1999) Distributor(s) A&M Records Founded 1991 | |
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Artists Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Mint Condition, Sounds of Blackness, Ann Nesby, Lo‑Key? Albums Mo' Money, Meant to Be Mint, From the Mint Factory, Definition of a Band, The Evolution of Gospel | ||
Perspective Records was an American record label, launched in 1991 by the producing team Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis, through a joint venture with A&M Records—which Jam & Lewis had had a prosperous working relationship with throughout the 1980s, with several of its major acts including Janet Jackson, The Human League, and label founder Herb Alpert.
Contents
- Sounds of Blackness
- Lo Key
- Mint Condition
- Drama
- 40
- Rufus Blaq
- Smooth
- Bobby Ross Avila
- Raja Nee
- Solo
- Ann Nesby
- Lisa Keith
- Soundtracks
- Pudgee Tha Phat Bastard
- Young Zee
- References
Acts on Perspective's roster included Bobby Ross Avila, Smooth, Mint Condition, Lo-Key, Solo, Sounds of Blackness, Young Zee, and Ann Nesby. From 1993 to 1996, A&M Records released most of its own urban acts through Perspective. In 1997, Jam and Lewis resigned as the label's CEOs, but remained consultants. Over the next year, Perspective continued to release recordings by the current artists for the sake of fulfilling contractual obligations with them. The company was dismantled, and absorbed into A&M Records, in early 1999—per the merger of A&M's PolyGram parent and Universal Music Group.