Jac Holzman was born on September 15,1931 and is an American music businessman, the founder, chief executive officer and head of record label Elektra Records and Nonesuch Records.
17 Facts About Jac Holzman
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Jac Holzman was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2011.
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Jac Holzman was born to a Jewish family, the son of a Manhattan doctor.
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Jac Holzman founded Elektra Entertainment as a small independent folk label in his St John's College dormitory room in 1950, with $600.
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Jac Holzman held Amateur Radio callsign K2VEH around this time.
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Jac Holzman signed such acts as The Doors, Queen, Love, Josh White, Tim Buckley, Carly Simon, the Stooges, MC5, Harry Chapin, and Bread to Elektra and discovered folk singer Judy Collins.
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In 1964, Jac Holzman served as executive producer for 13 stock sound effect libraries titled Authentic Sound Effects which generated $1.5 million in sales giving Elektra further financial security, that same year he founded Nonesuch Records as a classical music budget label.
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In 1973, Jac Holzman was appointed senior vice president and chief technologist for WCI.
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Jac Holzman guided the company into home video and the first interactive cable television system, QUBE.
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Jac Holzman was a member of the board of Atari, one of the first videogame companies, which was acquired by WCI in 1976, during this time the revolutionary Atari 2600 was released.
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In 1979, Jac Holzman became the nexus between ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith and John Lack of Warner Cable.
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Jac Holzman persuaded Lack to meet with Nesmith who had been nursing an idea for a program he called PopClips.
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Jac Holzman thought that Nesmith's notion of building a TV structure around that idea made real sense.
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In 1982, following the death of President and founder Robert Gottschalk, Jac Holzman took charge of Panavision, a wholly owned subsidiary of Warner Bros.
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In 1991, through FirstMedia, Jac Holzman acquired the Discovery, Trend and Musicraft jazz labels from the estate of Albert Marx, which was acquired by Warner Music Group in 1993.
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On December 15,2010, it was announced that Jac Holzman would be awarded the Ahmet Ertegun Award by the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
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Jac Holzman was inducted into the non-performer category of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on March 14,2011, with the induction speech given by Doors member John Densmore.