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Nesuhi Ertegun

Full Name: Nesuhi Ertegun

Birth Date: November 26, 1917
Deceased Date: July 15, 1989

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Record producer and music company executive, joined his younger brother, Ahmet at Atlantic Records in 1956 and focused on the label’s jazz catalog and artists, worked with John Coltrane, Charles Mingus and others, later branched into R&B and rock with Ray Charles, The Drifters and Roberta Flack, founded WEA International and served as its CEO until just before his death from cancer on 7/15/1989, age 71

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