'Driven by his passion for the arts, his love for Street Sounds, his need to continuously evolve and create’

Legendary music mogul and entrepreneur Morgan Khan’s expertise and experience is well known and highly respected throughout the world. He played a large part in making various genres of Black & Urban music more accessible to UK consumers after his founding of the iconic Street Sounds record label in 1982. He has been actively involved in the recording industry for almost 40 years in various capacities including events and concert promoter, producing, promotions, marketing, sales & distribution, publishing, artist management, business affairs and record company owner. His contribution to the music industry is exceptional and his influence and ability to discover & develop new artists and music genres, unprecedented. He is accredited as pioneering Electro/Hip Hop, House, Hip House and Acid music in Europe.

 

During his early career Morgan began working for Pye Records in 1978. His first record labels in 1981, were R&B (for UK talent) and Excaliber (international signings). The phenomenally successful group Imagination was his first UK signing. Both labels had major hit records with their respective first releases.




Morgan Khan has discovered and/or developed numerous multi-platinum recording artists on his own labels, including Jamiroquai, Dina Carroll, Humanoid and Imagination, as well as working with seminal artists like Barry White, Edwin Starr, Rose Royce, Gladys Knight, Al Green, Donna Summer, Norman Connors, Phyllis Hyman, Sugarhill Gang, Grandmaster Flash, Melle Mel, Parliament, Positive Force, BT Express, N.Y. Skyy, Viola Wills and Candi Staton amongst many others. Many other chart-hit artists have recorded on his labels including The Real Thing and Hi Tension. His previous labels include R&B Records, Streetwave, Westside Records, Radical Records and World Dance Records, which were the exclusive licensor's for the successful US labels, B-Boy Records (DJ Scott La Rock & KRS One), DJ International (Tyree, Fast Eddie, Joe Smooth, Daryl Pandy) and TRAX (Marshall Jefferson, Frankie Knuckles, Ralphi Rosario, Maurice).


Morgan has worked with most of the major record companies and music publishers including; CBS/Epic, Universal Music, Sony-BMG, Warner/Chappell Music. Projects have included the critically acclaimed Universal Music's “Back To Black - 100 years of Black Music” 10 CD box set; the most significant black music compilation project ever undertaken in the UK and the hugely successful TV compilation “The Definitive Electro & Hip Hop Collection”. It is with this vast experience of running record companies, publishing houses and managing artists which has created his reputation for innovation, originality and dynamism.



Some of the artists Morgan has worked with: DINA CARROLL. TODD TERRY. JAMIROQUAI. IMAGINATION. FRANKIE KNUCKLES. ROSE ROYCE. HUMANOID. FATBACK BAND. HI TENSION. EDWIN STARR. CHERYL LYNN. DONNA SUMMER. ADONIS. MANTRONIX. PETER BLACK. POSITIVE FORCE. BARBRA MASON. BARRY WHITE. THE REAL THING. CERRONE. THE GAP BAND. CANDIDO. THE SOURCE feat. CANDI STATON. PETER BLACK. CARL ANDERSON. ROYALLE DELITE. FONDA RAE. ALTON EDWARDS. D.J. FAST EDDIE. VIOLA WILLS. ARNIE’S LOVE. GIBSON BROTHERS. AL GREEN. TYREE. THE BAND A.K.A. CROWN HEIGHTS AFFAIR. GLADYS KNIGHT. YOUNG & COMPANY. CANDIDO. MASQUERADE. PHYLLIS HYMAN. JON CUTLER. J SEALY.

Hip Hops acts: SCOTT LA ROCK. KRS-ONE. THE SUGARHILL GANG. PUBLIC ENEMY. ROXANE SHANTÉ. KURTIS MANTRONIK. JUST-ICE. BEASTY BOYS. RUN DMC. DR. DRE (AND WORLD CLASS WRECKIN' CRU). ERIC B. FEATURING RAKIM. GRANDMASTER FLASH AND THE FURIOUS FIVE feat. GRANDMASTER MELLE MEL & DUKE BOOTEE. KURTIS BLOW, WHODINI, JVC FORCE. CAPTAIN ROCK. THE B-BOYS. STETSASONIC. AFRIKA BAMBAATAA & THE SOUL SONIC FORCE. ALEEMS. DAVY DMX. ROXANNE SHANTÉ. THE REAL ROXANNE. EGYPTIAN LOVER. DR. JECKYLL & MR. HYDE. 2 LIVE CREW. OVERLOAD X. FAZE ONE. DEREK B. HASHIM.