Daniel Stephenson

Daniel Stephenson is the president of Straight Forward Music Group, a subdivision of Universal Music Operations in tandem with its leading UK label Virgin/EMI. His role is to head up sub-label Straight Forward Recordings, the deal was announced via Billboard.com by Virgin/EMI’s President, Ted Cockle who will oversee the partnership.

Virgin EMI U.K. Signs A&R Deal With Straight Forward Recordings

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Virgin EMI Records UK has signed an exclusive A&R deal with fast-rising British indie label Straight Forward Recordings. Founded in 2011 by Dani Stephenson, Straight Forward's clients include Detroit-born producer and singer-songwriter Maejor, whose CV includes writing and production credits with Justin Bieber, Trey Songz, Keri Hilson, Ne-Yo and Wiz Khalifa.

Stephenson also writes, produces and is known for his side project [Pyramids in Paris] (producer/songwriter/artists/pyramids-in-paris).

Dani is a successful entrepreneur whose had a long line of success working in the entertainment industry as a music manager, label head, executive producer & songwriter under alias ‘Pyramids In Paris’. His companies encompass talent management, publishing, record label and studio recording facilities with offices in London, Stockholm and Amsterdam with plans to open a Los Angeles office in Miami & LA mid 2018.

Throughout his illustrious career Dani has been involved in many hit records like Big Sean’s ‘Finally Famous’, Tinie Tempah ‘YOUTH’, Diddy Dirty Money’s ‘Last Train To Paris’, MANN’s ‘Mann’s World’, Drake’s “Passionfruit & Skepta Interlude – More Life” & Grammy nominated “Don’t Matter To Me featuring Michael Jackson – Scorpion” Nevada’s hit single ‘The Mack’ featuring Fetty Wap & Mark Morrison, Marc Anthony’s hit single “Esta Rico” featuring Will Smith & Bad Bunny and many more.

Under Dani’s management wing Straight Forward Music he manages one of the hottest producers in the world right now Nana Rogues who was nominated for Best Song and Best Video in 2016, at the Brit Awards & MOBO Awards for hit single Girls Like ft. Zara Larsson. Rogues worked on Drake’s album “More Life” and produced album track “Skepta Interlude” and his worldwide hit single “Passionfruit” which earned him an Honouree award at this years Variety – Hitmakers awards for Passionfruit being the 28th most consumed and influencial single in the world as well as bagging several “Best Producer” award nominations with Music Week, A&R Awards, MOBO Awards and more. He also produced Anne-Marie’s Top 40 charted single with Nevada called ‘Heavy’ as well as Drake’s iconic hit “Don’t Matter To Me featuring Michel Jackson” on Drake’s Grammy nominated Scorpion Album which broke records.

Dani also manages Maejor a 3x Grammy nominated producer-songwriter who is largely known for his work on Bieber’s Purpose album earned him a Grammy nomination at this year’s awards, while his 2013 single “Lolly” featuring Bieber and Juicy J peaked at No. 19 on the Hot 100. More recently, the artist – real name Brandon Green – collaborated with Sao Paulo-born MC Livinho for his new single “Rebeca”, as well as Brazilian singer Anitta on the song “Vai Malandra,” which sparked controversy through its Terry Richardson-directed video. The latter track has been streamed over 200 million times since its release late last year and won x2 MultiShow Awards 2018 and x2 MTV MIAW Awards including “MTV Hit Of The Year” Award , Maejor is additionally one half of alt-electronic duo AREA21 alongside Dutch DJ Martin Garrix.

He also represents Nevada a DJ-Producer-Singer-Songwriter from Washington, DC, who had a huge hit single called The Mack ft fetty Wap & Mark Morrison which was a Top20 global hit selling over 2.5 million singles, which achieved Gold and 2X Double platinum status whilst amassing over 350 million streams worldwide. Dani also works with chart topping DJ/Producer David Zowie, who had a worldwide hit called “House Every Weekend” which went number #1 in the Official Chart Update. He recently released his new single ”The Real Don” a remake of Notorious BIG’s hit single “Going Back To Cali”.