‘Change Is the Only Constant’: Epic Records Chief Sylvia Rhone Looks Back on Four Decades in the Music Business
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variety.comShirley Halperin Executive Editor, MusicSylvia Rhone smashed the C-suite ceiling long before such buzz words as diversity and gender parity came into the lexicon.
In 1994 at the age of 42, she was running a major record company as chairman and CEO of Warner Music Group’s Elektra (Metallica, Missy Elliott and Natalie Merchant were among the hit artists on the roster at the time).
She was already being recognized with such descriptors as “first woman” and “only African American” to hold such a title. A decade later, she would take the chief executive position again at Universal Motown (Akon, India.Arie, Erykah Badu).
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